Presentation Skills Contracts

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 have cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 117 117
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +32
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 877 1,304 2,085
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 2.18% 2.35%
As % of the General category 3.48% 3.73% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 813 1,321
10th Percentile £232 £320 £350
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +1.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £601 £700 £638
90th Percentile £744 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 35 30
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.84 £17.00
25th Percentile £32.13 £31.00 £22.22
Median hourly rate £37.18 £55.00 £33.32
Median % change year-on-year -32.40% +65.07% +51.94%
75th Percentile £57.41 £65.00 £41.88
90th Percentile £69.30 - £46.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.18 £65.00 £29.38
% change year-on-year -42.80% +121.24% +35.52%

All General Skills
UK

Presentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Presentation Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Presentation Skills.

Daily rate trend for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Presentation Skills.

Hourly rate trend for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Top 16 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +5 747 £520 -5.08% 1,083
London -6 406 £500 -16.67% 398
UK excluding London +20 369 £500 - 707
Work from Home +8 261 £525 - 375
South East -8 110 £525 +6.06% 167
South West +45 68 £469 -14.73% 114
Scotland +34 53 £465 - 44
North of England +24 53 £555 +15.63% 159
East of England +30 45 £475 -5.00% 98
Midlands -29 36 £519 +0.73% 138
North West +9 30 £500 +5.26% 92
West Midlands -15 27 £525 +1.79% 86
Yorkshire +13 17 £600 +25.00% 50
East Midlands +6 9 £500 +1.16% 52
North East +25 6 £873 +45.58% 21
Wales +20 6 £538 +2.38% 25

Presentation Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.82%) Confluence
3 13 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.91%) MTS
5 6 (0.68%) Apache
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.68%) CMS
6 5 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.57%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.34%) SAS
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) Moodle
8 2 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.23%) Tornado
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 95 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (10.49%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (5.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (4.33%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (3.31%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (1.82%) MS Visio
7 9 (1.03%) Sketch
8 6 (0.68%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.57%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.34%) SPSS
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.23%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.23%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.23%) Trello
11 2 (0.23%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.11%) InVision
12 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (1.60%) Aligne
1 14 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.48%) Endur
3 10 (1.14%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.91%) EuroRunner
4 8 (0.91%) SAP PM
5 6 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.68%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.68%) Shopify
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.57%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
8 3 (0.34%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 107 (12.20%) Azure
2 57 (6.50%) Power Platform
3 50 (5.70%) AWS
4 48 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (2.62%) GitHub
7 19 (2.17%) SaaS
8 16 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (1.60%) Entra ID
9 14 (1.60%) Figma
9 14 (1.60%) GCP
10 13 (1.48%) Google Workspace
11 12 (1.37%) IaaS
12 11 (1.25%) OCI
12 11 (1.25%) PaaS
13 10 (1.14%) Serverless
14 9 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.76%) Firewall
2 20 (2.28%) WAN
3 17 (1.94%) VoIP
4 16 (1.82%) LAN
5 14 (1.60%) Wireless
6 13 (1.48%) PBX
7 11 (1.25%) Network Security
8 10 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.03%) DNS
9 9 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
9 9 (1.03%) VPN
10 8 (0.91%) Radio Access Network
11 7 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (0.80%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.80%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.68%) Internet
12 6 (0.68%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.57%) SAN
13 5 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.93%) Power BI
2 29 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.05%) Tableau
4 17 (1.94%) Metadata
5 16 (1.82%) Oracle Database
6 13 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.14%) Big Data
9 8 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.91%) Data Mining
10 7 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.68%) MySQL
11 6 (0.68%) PowerCenter
11 6 (0.68%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 67 (7.64%) JIRA
2 25 (2.85%) Git
3 12 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
4 11 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.91%) GitLab
5 8 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.68%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.46%) Appium
7 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.46%) ERwin
7 4 (0.46%) Selenium
8 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Pylint
9 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.23%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 622 (70.92%) Social Skills
2 282 (32.16%) Finance
3 190 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (11.29%) Organisational Skills
5 77 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.47%) Marketing
7 46 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (4.56%) Banking
9 33 (3.76%) Telecoms
10 29 (3.31%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.62%) Legal
12 22 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.17%) Retail
14 18 (2.05%) Law
15 16 (1.82%) German Language
16 15 (1.71%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.60%) Automotive
18 13 (1.48%) Local Government
19 11 (1.25%) Military
20 10 (1.14%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 145 (16.53%) Analyst
2 102 (11.63%) Architect
3 81 (9.24%) Consultant
4 76 (8.67%) Senior
5 73 (8.32%) Project Manager
6 72 (8.21%) Business Analyst
7 59 (6.73%) Lead
8 49 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.99%) Developer
10 31 (3.53%) Support Engineer
11 30 (3.42%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.85%) Desktop Support
13 24 (2.74%) Desktop Engineer
14 22 (2.51%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 22 (2.51%) Windows Engineer
15 20 (2.28%) Project Leader
15 20 (2.28%) Windows Support Engineer
16 19 (2.17%) Designer
17 14 (1.60%) 1st Line Support
17 14 (1.60%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.51%) HTML
2 21 (2.39%) Web Services
3 20 (2.28%) CSS
4 19 (2.17%) REST
5 16 (1.82%) SOAP
6 15 (1.71%) React
7 14 (1.60%) Node.js
8 12 (1.37%) .NET
8 12 (1.37%) Kafka
9 10 (1.14%) ADO
10 9 (1.03%) Pandas
10 9 (1.03%) PySpark
11 8 (0.91%) .NET Core
11 8 (0.91%) pytest
12 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
12 7 (0.80%) jQuery
12 7 (0.80%) LDAP
12 7 (0.80%) Middleware
12 7 (0.80%) YAML
13 6 (0.68%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.36%) Renewable Energy
2 41 (4.68%) Management Information System
2 41 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 39 (4.45%) Solar Panel
4 29 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (2.39%) Virtual Team
6 19 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.25%) PMI
10 10 (1.14%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.91%) Derivative
12 8 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.91%) FMCG
12 8 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.91%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.80%) NHS
13 7 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 76 (8.67%) Windows
2 43 (4.90%) Linux
3 17 (1.94%) Unix
4 11 (1.25%) Windows 7
4 11 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.80%) Android
6 6 (0.68%) AIX
7 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.46%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.46%) Windows Vista
9 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) OS/390
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
2 224 (25.54%) Agile
3 193 (22.01%) Project Management
4 174 (19.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 137 (15.62%) Decision-Making
6 94 (10.72%) Time Management
7 85 (9.69%) Project Delivery
8 79 (9.01%) Workshop Facilitation
9 78 (8.89%) PRINCE2
10 75 (8.55%) DevOps
11 73 (8.32%) Roadmaps
12 70 (7.98%) Migration
13 68 (7.75%) Business Analysis
14 67 (7.64%) Analytics
15 64 (7.30%) Business Intelligence
16 63 (7.18%) ITIL
16 63 (7.18%) Process Improvement
17 59 (6.73%) Change Management
17 59 (6.73%) Data Management
18 52 (5.93%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 82 (9.35%) SQL
2 54 (6.16%) Python
3 27 (3.08%) JavaScript
4 19 (2.17%) Java
5 15 (1.71%) C#
6 13 (1.48%) C++
7 12 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.80%) Bicep
10 7 (0.80%) R
11 4 (0.46%) Bash
11 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.34%) Scala
12 3 (0.34%) VBA
12 3 (0.34%) XPath
13 2 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.23%) Rust
13 2 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (18.24%) Degree
2 155 (17.67%) Security Cleared
3 90 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 77 (8.78%) DV Cleared
5 26 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.39%) APMP
8 17 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 14 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.60%) CISM
11 12 (1.37%) PMP
12 11 (1.25%) CCNP
12 11 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.91%) ACCA
13 8 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.91%) CISA
14 7 (0.80%) CISSP
15 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.47%) PMO
2 36 (4.10%) QA
3 29 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.85%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.82%) SLA
6 9 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.46%) GDPR
9 4 (0.46%) IFRS
9 4 (0.46%) NIST
9 4 (0.46%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) WCAG
12 1 (0.11%) GAMP
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 35 (3.99%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.71%) Docker
4 6 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.46%) Firmware
5 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.46%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) HDFS
6 2 (0.23%) NFS
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Snort
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (2.28%) Terraform
2 16 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.25%) SCCM
4 8 (0.91%) Nessus
4 8 (0.91%) VxRail
5 6 (0.68%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 5 (0.57%) Kibana
7 4 (0.46%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.34%) Nagios
8 3 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.34%) Puppet
9 2 (0.23%) Avamar
9 2 (0.23%) PaperCut
9 2 (0.23%) SCOM
9 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.23%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 188 (21.44%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.10%) SAP
3 52 (5.93%) Oracle
4 31 (3.53%) Cisco
4 31 (3.53%) VMware
5 24 (2.74%) Google
6 23 (2.62%) Dell
7 21 (2.39%) Adobe
8 19 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 18 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.37%) Databricks
11 11 (1.25%) Citrix
11 11 (1.25%) Juniper
12 10 (1.14%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.91%) Ariba
13 8 (0.91%) HP
13 8 (0.91%) Informatica
14 7 (0.80%) F5
14 7 (0.80%) ScienceLogic
15 6 (0.68%) BiZZdesign