Presentation Skills Contract Job Trends

Presentation Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 150 108
Rank change year-on-year -101 -42 +12
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 463 540 887
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.83% 2.04%
As % of the General category 1.82% 2.90% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 308 555
10th Percentile £377 £310 £211
25th Percentile £413 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -1.48% -7.73%
75th Percentile £638 £605 £600
90th Percentile £773 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -1.60% -1.23% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 41
10th Percentile £20.57 £18.81 £17.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £42.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +74.83% -39.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.63 £57.50
90th Percentile - £95.16 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +96.97% -49.23%

All General Skills
UK

Presentation Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,477 18,596 25,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.05% 63.15% 58.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,762 11,903 15,985
10th Percentile £305 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,614 775 1,917
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.13 £15.40
Median hourly rate £28.00 £28.60 £28.42
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +0.63% -18.80%
75th Percentile £59.00 £56.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £26.50 £26.87
% change year-on-year -4.23% -1.36% -15.08%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Presentation Skills job vacancy trend in the UK

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Presentation Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
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 Presentation Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 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 -99 427 £517 -1.36% 482
London -72 225 £540 +2.86% 192
UK excluding London -90 216 £492 -1.60% 314
Work from Home -57 151 £525 +5.00% 192
North of England -53 58 £408 -18.47% 89
Midlands -71 41 £487 -7.33% 62
South East -55 40 £613 +32.00% 83
East of England -16 37 £454 -9.20% 34
West Midlands -62 33 £492 -10.55% 38
North West -44 32 £436 +11.38% 42
Yorkshire -60 24 £408 -19.60% 37
South West -34 22 £545 +3.81% 30
Scotland -4 11 £431 -11.54% 11
East Midlands -40 8 £402 -2.90% 24
Wales -19 5 £750 +66.67% 7
Northern Ireland +3 4 £406 +39.85% 8
North East -13 2 £400 -36.00% 11

Presentation Skills
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 24 (5.18%) Confluence
2 23 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.43%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.43%) CMS
4 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Smallworld
Applications
1 56 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (11.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 43 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (3.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.65%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.65%) Sketch
7 2 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.43%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.22%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.81%) Loan IQ
2 7 (1.51%) Endur
3 6 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.43%) Maximo
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.43%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.43%) Shopify
4 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.43%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 77 (16.63%) Azure
2 65 (14.04%) AWS
3 28 (6.05%) SaaS
4 26 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.40%) GCP
6 17 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (3.46%) GitHub
8 14 (3.02%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (2.59%) OCI
10 11 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.38%) PaaS
11 10 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.16%) IaaS
11 10 (2.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.73%) AWS KMS
13 8 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.83%) Ethernet
2 26 (5.62%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.81%) Firewall
4 6 (1.30%) VSAN
5 5 (1.08%) Network Security
6 4 (0.86%) Internet
6 4 (0.86%) LAN
6 4 (0.86%) SAN
6 4 (0.86%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.86%) WAN
7 3 (0.65%) DNS
7 3 (0.65%) Intranet
8 2 (0.43%) BGP
8 2 (0.43%) DHCP
8 2 (0.43%) DMZ
8 2 (0.43%) IPv4
8 2 (0.43%) IPv6
8 2 (0.43%) MPLS
8 2 (0.43%) OSPF
8 2 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.75%) Power BI
2 18 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.16%) Metadata
5 9 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.86%) MySQL
6 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.86%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.86%) Tableau
7 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.43%) Big Data
8 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.43%) GIS
8 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (8.42%) JIRA
2 20 (4.32%) Git
3 13 (2.81%) Eclipse
4 12 (2.59%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.86%) GitLab
7 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.43%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.43%) jMock
7 2 (0.43%) JUnit
7 2 (0.43%) Maven
7 2 (0.43%) Mockito
7 2 (0.43%) Snyk
7 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.43%) Storybook
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 327 (70.63%) Social Skills
2 125 (27.00%) Finance
3 110 (23.76%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 39 (8.42%) Influencing Skills
6 38 (8.21%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (7.78%) Banking
8 30 (6.48%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (5.62%) Retail
10 24 (5.18%) Marketing
11 17 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.67%) Legal
12 15 (3.24%) Military
13 12 (2.59%) Manufacturing
14 11 (2.38%) Front Office
15 10 (2.16%) Advertising
16 9 (1.94%) Law
16 9 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.73%) Telecoms
18 7 (1.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (21.60%) Analyst
2 72 (15.55%) Architect
3 66 (14.25%) Business Analyst
4 34 (7.34%) Lead
4 34 (7.34%) Senior
5 25 (5.40%) Consultant
6 21 (4.54%) Project Manager
6 21 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (4.32%) Developer
8 19 (4.10%) Technical Architect
8 19 (4.10%) Technical Engineer
9 18 (3.89%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (3.24%) Designer
10 15 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.02%) Security Architect
11 14 (3.02%) Transformation Analyst
12 13 (2.81%) Migration Analyst
12 13 (2.81%) Trainer
13 12 (2.59%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.24%) Web Services
2 14 (3.02%) Node.js
3 13 (2.81%) VML
4 12 (2.59%) REST
5 11 (2.38%) Middleware
5 11 (2.38%) ModSecurity
6 10 (2.16%) .NET
7 7 (1.51%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.51%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.30%) RESTful
9 5 (1.08%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.08%) CSS
9 5 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.86%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.86%) EDI
10 4 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.86%) Spring
11 3 (0.65%) JWT
11 3 (0.65%) Playwright
11 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.24%) Data Centre
2 15 (3.24%) Industry 4.0
2 15 (3.24%) Management Information System
2 15 (3.24%) Robotics
3 14 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.59%) Learning Management System
5 12 (2.59%) PMI
6 10 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.73%) e-Learning
7 8 (1.73%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.51%) Tandem
9 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.30%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.30%) Life Science
10 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.56%) Windows
2 27 (5.83%) Linux
3 4 (0.86%) VMS
4 3 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (42.12%) Agile
2 130 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
3 126 (27.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 103 (22.25%) Decision-Making
5 72 (15.55%) Roadmaps
6 71 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (15.33%) Project Delivery
7 63 (13.61%) Migration
8 59 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 56 (12.10%) Business Analysis
10 53 (11.45%) Project Management
11 52 (11.23%) Analytics
12 50 (10.80%) AI
12 50 (10.80%) Validation
13 49 (10.58%) Change Management
13 49 (10.58%) Scrum
14 48 (10.37%) User Stories
15 44 (9.50%) DevOps
15 44 (9.50%) Waterfall
15 44 (9.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.99%) SQL
2 31 (6.70%) Python
3 22 (4.75%) Java
4 16 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.24%) C++
6 12 (2.59%) C#
7 8 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.08%) VB
9 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.86%) R
10 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.43%) VBA
12 1 (0.22%) Groovy
12 1 (0.22%) LookML
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (27.00%) Degree
2 98 (21.17%) Security Cleared
3 50 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.91%) Master's Degree
5 30 (6.48%) DV Cleared
6 27 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (4.32%) CISSP
8 17 (3.67%) PMI Certification
9 16 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (2.38%) CESG Certified Professional
11 10 (2.16%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.94%) CSPO
12 9 (1.94%) PMP
13 8 (1.73%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.08%) CBAP
15 5 (1.08%) CCSP
15 5 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.54%) Accessibility
1 21 (4.54%) Data Quality
1 21 (4.54%) GDPR
1 21 (4.54%) NIST
2 16 (3.46%) PMO
2 16 (3.46%) QA
3 8 (1.73%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.30%) SLA
5 6 (1.30%) WCAG
6 5 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.86%) NCSC
8 3 (0.65%) GMP
8 3 (0.65%) GRC
8 3 (0.65%) GxP
8 3 (0.65%) HL7
8 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.43%) Basel III
9 2 (0.43%) DICOM
9 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (3.46%) Docker
2 10 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.73%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.51%) vSphere
5 3 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.43%) KVM
6 2 (0.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.24%) Terraform
3 8 (1.73%) Ansible
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.86%) vRealize
5 4 (0.86%) VxRail
6 3 (0.65%) Control-M
6 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.43%) Grafana
7 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.43%) Puppet
8 1 (0.22%) Argo
8 1 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.22%) QRadar
8 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 103 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.05%) SAP
3 24 (5.18%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.67%) Oracle
5 15 (3.24%) Cisco
5 15 (3.24%) Siemens
6 14 (3.02%) Google
7 13 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.59%) Databricks
8 12 (2.59%) VMware
9 9 (1.94%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.94%) Software AG
10 7 (1.51%) Adobe
10 7 (1.51%) IBM
11 6 (1.30%) Dell
11 6 (1.30%) Juniper
11 6 (1.30%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.08%) Informatica
12 5 (1.08%) Rapid7
12 5 (1.08%) SolarWinds