Microsoft PowerPoint Contract Job Trends

Microsoft PowerPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft PowerPoint skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 170 213
Rank change year-on-year -137 +43 -22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 445 535 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.63% 1.14%
As % of the Applications category 15.65% 18.92% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 268 188
10th Percentile £204 £237 £219
25th Percentile £305 £312 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £413 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -7.30% -6.32%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £566
90th Percentile £634 £644 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £374 £388
% change year-on-year +7.10% -3.61% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 64 120
10th Percentile £14.76 £14.84 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.50 £19.00 £15.07
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +26.09% -26.77%
75th Percentile £33.12 £31.00 £16.85
90th Percentile £87.06 £35.50 £26.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.85 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year -5.29% +25.67% -27.11%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft PowerPoint falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,843 2,828 2,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.31% 8.60% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 1,584 1,404
10th Percentile £213 £198 £164
25th Percentile £320 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £638 £650 £632
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 373 383
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.60 £11.79
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.84 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +28.31% -22.27%
75th Percentile £36.70 £34.68 £42.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.86 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.76 £22.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -5.66% +35.55% -24.51%

Microsoft PowerPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft PowerPoint relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft PowerPoint job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -111 397 £450 - 321
UK excluding London -100 237 £400 +7.10% 272
London -90 184 £494 +9.29% 106
Work from Home -84 124 £420 +5.00% 124
South East -38 73 £500 +48.15% 89
North of England -101 50 £400 - 69
Midlands -48 32 £475 +54.98% 38
South West -30 31 £310 -43.08% 35
Scotland -26 28 £425 +30.77% 12
West Midlands -41 28 £475 +54.98% 29
Yorkshire -58 27 £400 - 28
North West -54 23 £399 -11.39% 37
East of England -49 17 £509 +36.01% 19
Northern Ireland -18 4 £369 -18.06% 9
East Midlands -19 4 £490 - 9
Wales -24 3 £450 +46.34% 6

Microsoft PowerPoint
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 80 (17.98%) SharePoint
2 39 (8.76%) Confluence
3 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Moodle
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 392 (88.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (45.17%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (15.96%) Microsoft Project
4 70 (15.73%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.35%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.67%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.22%) InDesign
9 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.22%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.22%) Trello
9 1 (0.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.80%) Magento
2 6 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.12%) Loan IQ
3 5 (1.12%) Primavera
4 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.90%) SAP MM
4 4 (0.90%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.67%) TrackWise
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.45%) Shopify
6 2 (0.45%) Workfront
7 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.22%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 68 (15.28%) Power Platform
2 35 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (7.19%) Azure
4 19 (4.27%) AWS
5 17 (3.82%) SaaS
6 11 (2.47%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.25%) Figma
8 9 (2.02%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (1.35%) GitHub
9 6 (1.35%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.35%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.35%) Lucidchart
9 6 (1.35%) Smartsheet
10 5 (1.12%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.90%) GCP
11 4 (0.90%) Google Docs
11 4 (0.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.70%) WAN
2 10 (2.25%) LAN
3 9 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.35%) BGP
5 6 (1.35%) MPLS
5 6 (1.35%) SNMP
5 6 (1.35%) TACACS
6 5 (1.12%) Internet
7 4 (0.90%) RSVP
7 4 (0.90%) VPN
8 3 (0.67%) DHCP
8 3 (0.67%) DNS
8 3 (0.67%) Firewall
8 3 (0.67%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.45%) FTP
9 2 (0.45%) Intranet
9 2 (0.45%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.22%) Network Security
10 1 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.16%) Power BI
2 10 (2.25%) Power Query
3 7 (1.57%) Tableau
4 3 (0.67%) PowerPivot
4 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.22%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.22%) DataStage
6 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.22%) GIS
6 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 70 (15.73%) JIRA
2 13 (2.92%) Git
3 9 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.80%) Subversion
5 3 (0.67%) MLflow
5 3 (0.67%) Selenium
5 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.45%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.45%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.45%) HP UFT
6 2 (0.45%) MSI
6 2 (0.45%) Rational Functional Tester
6 2 (0.45%) SilkTest
6 2 (0.45%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.45%) Tricentis qTest
6 2 (0.45%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.22%) Postman
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 249 (55.96%) Social Skills
2 181 (40.67%) Finance
3 139 (31.24%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (22.47%) Organisational Skills
5 55 (12.36%) Banking
6 41 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (7.42%) Marketing
8 27 (6.07%) Legal
9 24 (5.39%) Retail
10 20 (4.49%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.92%) Investment Banking
12 13 (2.92%) Military
13 11 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 10 (2.25%) Telecoms
15 9 (2.02%) Advertising
15 9 (2.02%) Front Office
15 9 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.57%) French Language
Job Titles
1 106 (23.82%) Analyst
2 45 (10.11%) Project Manager
3 38 (8.54%) Senior
4 33 (7.42%) Business Analyst
5 25 (5.62%) PMO Analyst
6 23 (5.17%) Administrator
6 23 (5.17%) Consultant
7 20 (4.49%) Coordinator
8 19 (4.27%) Project Officer
9 18 (4.04%) IT Analyst
9 18 (4.04%) Support Officer
10 17 (3.82%) Lead
11 16 (3.60%) Project Support Officer
12 14 (3.15%) Architect
12 14 (3.15%) PMO Manager
12 14 (3.15%) Senior Manager
13 13 (2.92%) Project Coordinator
13 13 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.70%) Data Analyst
15 11 (2.47%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.02%) VML
2 6 (1.35%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.35%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.35%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.35%) YANG
3 4 (0.90%) .NET
3 4 (0.90%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.90%) JDO
3 4 (0.90%) Web Services
3 4 (0.90%) XML
4 3 (0.67%) ADO
4 3 (0.67%) Flutter
4 3 (0.67%) HTML
4 3 (0.67%) NumPy
4 3 (0.67%) Pandas
4 3 (0.67%) React Native
4 3 (0.67%) REST
4 3 (0.67%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.67%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.64%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.25%) Life Science
6 8 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.12%) Graphic Design
10 4 (0.90%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.90%) CMDB
10 4 (0.90%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.90%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.90%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.90%) Video Editing
10 4 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.27%) Windows
2 7 (1.57%) Linux
3 4 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.90%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 121 (27.19%) Project Management
3 119 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (23.82%) Agile
5 97 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (20.90%) Project Delivery
7 76 (17.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 64 (14.38%) Decision-Making
9 59 (13.26%) Waterfall
10 53 (11.91%) Data Analysis
11 48 (10.79%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (9.89%) PRINCE2
13 43 (9.66%) Analytics
14 42 (9.44%) AI
15 40 (8.99%) Business Case
16 39 (8.76%) Risk Management
17 38 (8.54%) Change Management
17 38 (8.54%) Portfolio Management
18 32 (7.19%) Validation
18 32 (7.19%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.29%) SQL
2 21 (4.72%) Python
3 7 (1.57%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.57%) VBA
4 5 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.67%) Korn
7 2 (0.45%) C++
7 2 (0.45%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.45%) VB
7 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.22%) C#
8 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (27.42%) Degree
2 90 (20.22%) Security Cleared
3 58 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.84%) PMI Certification
5 24 (5.39%) DV Cleared
6 22 (4.94%) PMP
7 12 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.35%) CCIE
11 6 (1.35%) JNCIE
12 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.90%) CIPD
14 3 (0.67%) CISM
14 3 (0.67%) CISSP
14 3 (0.67%) IIBA
14 3 (0.67%) MBA
15 2 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
15 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (24.04%) PMO
2 20 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.27%) QA
4 9 (2.02%) P3O
5 7 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.57%) GRC
6 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.90%) MiFID
7 4 (0.90%) NIST
7 4 (0.90%) SLA
8 3 (0.67%) GMP
9 2 (0.45%) GDPR
9 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) NCSC
10 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.47%) Ansible
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.90%) SCCM
3 4 (0.90%) Terraform
4 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 282 (63.37%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.66%) ServiceNow
3 29 (6.52%) SAP
4 22 (4.94%) Google
5 18 (4.04%) Oracle
6 15 (3.37%) Adobe
7 14 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.25%) Cisco
9 9 (2.02%) F5
10 8 (1.80%) Planview
11 7 (1.57%) Workday
12 6 (1.35%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.35%) Juniper
13 5 (1.12%) Apple
13 5 (1.12%) Splunk
14 4 (0.90%) Databricks
14 4 (0.90%) Okta
14 4 (0.90%) Qualys
14 4 (0.90%) Wrike
14 4 (0.90%) Xactly