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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 169 181
Rank change year-on-year -78 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 476 472 574
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.62% 1.30%
As % of the Applications category 16.37% 20.06% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 266 260
10th Percentile £280 £234 £166
25th Percentile £340 £314 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £414 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -10.54% +2.78%
75th Percentile £551 £536 £589
90th Percentile £614 £640 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.38% +6.53% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 44 118
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £11.07
25th Percentile £15.80 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +3.05% -50.66%
75th Percentile £27.88 £21.46 £26.50
90th Percentile £33.75 £28.25 £35.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £16.23 £15.21
% change year-on-year +10.91% +6.71% -39.76%

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 2,907 2,353 3,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.61% 8.10% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 1,440 1,847
10th Percentile £213 £188 £158
25th Percentile £336 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £406 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% +1.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 235 621
10th Percentile £12.97 £14.73 £11.50
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.12 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £26.34 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +39.12% -45.91%
75th Percentile £29.50 £45.65 £42.64
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.75 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.07 £26.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -28.04% +49.55% -46.30%

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 26 March 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 26 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 17 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 26 March 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 -72 430 £455 +3.12% 243
UK excluding London -92 241 £425 +6.38% 181
London -32 212 £500 +11.11% 91
Work from Home -49 119 £400 -8.57% 114
North of England -54 72 £399 -0.31% 46
South East -22 66 £475 +5.56% 52
Midlands -45 40 £455 -13.33% 25
Yorkshire -44 38 £340 -15.00% 15
North West -34 32 £450 +14.65% 27
West Midlands -59 22 £321 -38.86% 17
East Midlands -18 19 £455 +2.25% 8
Scotland -20 18 £350 +3.70% 10
East of England -64 18 £400 +0.13% 25
South West -21 17 £391 -13.06% 22
Northern Ireland -6 8 £456 +7.35% 3
Wales -6 7 £213 - 7
North East -15 2 £390 -48.00% 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 96 (20.17%) SharePoint
2 77 (16.18%) Confluence
3 6 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 399 (83.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (39.71%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (19.33%) MS Visio
4 56 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.42%) InDesign
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 12 (2.52%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.47%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.47%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.63%) Primavera
4 3 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.63%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.42%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.21%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Shopify
6 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 42 (8.82%) Azure
1 42 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (7.98%) Power Platform
3 25 (5.25%) AWS
4 21 (4.41%) GitHub
5 15 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.52%) Snowflake
7 8 (1.68%) SaaS
8 7 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.26%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (1.26%) Dagster
9 6 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.05%) Canva
10 5 (1.05%) Collibra
10 5 (1.05%) Figma
10 5 (1.05%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.57%) Firewall
2 15 (3.15%) Wireless
3 13 (2.73%) WAN
4 10 (2.10%) Internet
4 10 (2.10%) LAN
4 10 (2.10%) VPN
5 8 (1.68%) BGP
6 5 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
6 5 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) BIG-IP
7 4 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (0.84%) MPLS
7 4 (0.84%) Network Security
7 4 (0.84%) OSPF
7 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.84%) SNMP
7 4 (0.84%) TACACS
7 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.63%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.35%) Power BI
2 26 (5.46%) Tableau
3 7 (1.47%) Metadata
4 5 (1.05%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.84%) SQLPlus
6 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.42%) MS Access
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.42%) Spotfire
7 2 (0.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.21%) DB2
8 1 (0.21%) EDMS
8 1 (0.21%) Essbase
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 120 (25.21%) JIRA
2 15 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (2.73%) Burp Suite
4 13 (2.73%) Metasploit
5 11 (2.31%) Git
6 7 (1.47%) Toad
7 6 (1.26%) MLflow
8 4 (0.84%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.21%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 258 (54.20%) Social Skills
2 184 (38.66%) Finance
3 98 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (18.70%) Banking
5 57 (11.97%) Organisational Skills
6 56 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (7.98%) Public Sector
8 34 (7.14%) Legal
9 30 (6.30%) Marketing
10 18 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.94%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.73%) Investment Banking
12 13 (2.73%) Retail
13 12 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.10%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.47%) Electronics
15 7 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.26%) Front Office
16 6 (1.26%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 143 (30.04%) Analyst
2 68 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 31 (6.51%) Project Manager
4 30 (6.30%) Architect
5 27 (5.67%) Senior
6 26 (5.46%) PMO Analyst
7 24 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.83%) Consultant
9 22 (4.62%) Administrator
9 22 (4.62%) Lead
10 19 (3.99%) Technical Analyst
11 18 (3.78%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
13 16 (3.36%) Coordinator
14 15 (3.15%) PMO Manager
14 15 (3.15%) Tester
15 13 (2.73%) Migration Analyst
15 13 (2.73%) Penetration Tester
16 12 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
16 12 (2.52%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.26%) NumPy
2 6 (1.26%) Pandas
2 6 (1.26%) scikit-learn
2 6 (1.26%) Seaborn
3 5 (1.05%) VML
4 4 (0.84%) ADO
4 4 (0.84%) NETCONF
4 4 (0.84%) OpenConfig
4 4 (0.84%) Playwright
4 4 (0.84%) RESTCONF
4 4 (0.84%) YANG
5 3 (0.63%) REST
5 3 (0.63%) XML
6 2 (0.42%) Flutter
6 2 (0.42%) React Native
6 2 (0.42%) Web Services
6 2 (0.42%) XSLT
7 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 32 (6.72%) Onboarding
3 28 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 26 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.52%) PMI
7 11 (2.31%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.89%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.89%) Learning Management System
9 8 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.47%) Tandem
11 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.26%) Equities
11 6 (1.26%) Graphic Design
11 6 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.26%) NHS
11 6 (1.26%) Social Media
12 5 (1.05%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.67%) Windows
2 4 (0.84%) Mac OS
2 4 (0.84%) Unix
3 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (24.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 111 (23.32%) Agile
3 111 (23.32%) Project Management
4 103 (21.64%) Project Delivery
5 73 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (13.66%) DevOps
7 64 (13.45%) Decision-Making
8 62 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 58 (12.18%) Migration
10 53 (11.13%) Business Analysis
10 53 (11.13%) Waterfall
11 52 (10.92%) Time Management
12 46 (9.66%) Process Improvement
13 39 (8.19%) Change Management
13 39 (8.19%) Workshop Facilitation
14 37 (7.77%) Analytics
15 35 (7.35%) Data Analysis
16 34 (7.14%) PRINCE2
16 34 (7.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.82%) SQL
2 26 (5.46%) Python
3 7 (1.47%) VB
4 6 (1.26%) C#
5 5 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.84%) Perl
6 4 (0.84%) PHP
6 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.84%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.84%) VBA
7 3 (0.63%) Java
7 3 (0.63%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.42%) R
9 1 (0.21%) C
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 134 (28.15%) Degree
2 70 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 57 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.62%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.57%) PMP
6 15 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 13 (2.73%) CHECK Team Member
9 11 (2.31%) CREST Certified
9 11 (2.31%) Cyber Scheme
9 11 (2.31%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.31%) Postgraduate
10 10 (2.10%) CBAP
10 10 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.89%) IIBA
12 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.47%) CCIE
13 7 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.47%) JNCIE
14 5 (1.05%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (21.85%) PMO
2 25 (5.25%) QA
3 23 (4.83%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.99%) GDPR
5 13 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.73%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.47%) P3O
7 5 (1.05%) SLA
8 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.84%) MiFID
9 3 (0.63%) GRC
9 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.21%) COBIT
11 1 (0.21%) GAAP
11 1 (0.21%) GAMP
11 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 13 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.47%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (4.62%) Ansible
2 13 (2.73%) Nmap
3 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.84%) SCCM
4 4 (0.84%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 227 (47.69%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.09%) Oracle
3 20 (4.20%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.99%) SAP
5 16 (3.36%) Adobe
6 15 (3.15%) Cisco
7 14 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.94%) Sonatype
8 9 (1.89%) Google
8 9 (1.89%) Remedy
9 8 (1.68%) F5
9 8 (1.68%) Juniper
10 7 (1.47%) Planview
10 7 (1.47%) Workday
11 6 (1.26%) Charles River
11 6 (1.26%) Splunk
12 5 (1.05%) Ariba
12 5 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.05%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.05%) Databricks