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 cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 111 119
Rank change year-on-year -46 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 537 887 1,301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 2.03% 2.18%
As % of the General category 2.91% 3.49% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 533 813
10th Percentile £310 £234 £321
25th Percentile £414 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -4.03% +1.71%
75th Percentile £614 £601 £700
90th Percentile £750 £744 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 42 33
10th Percentile £15.53 £17.43 £14.77
25th Percentile £30.38 £31.69 £31.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.83% -29.18% +61.54%
75th Percentile £72.69 £63.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £37.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +74.83% -42.80% +121.24%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Top 17 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 30 April 2025. 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 -32 470 £525 +0.96% 1,463
London -25 269 £544 +8.75% 920
UK excluding London -23 219 £500 - 599
Work from Home +2 200 £500 -4.76% 702
Midlands +35 50 £525 +1.20% 103
North of England +24 50 £500 -9.91% 166
South East -25 38 £478 -9.05% 146
West Midlands +22 33 £550 +4.76% 44
North West +11 31 £413 -17.50% 90
South West 0 26 £500 +6.61% 76
East of England +11 24 £500 +2.56% 55
Yorkshire +17 19 £504 -16.08% 58
East Midlands +16 16 £437 -12.70% 57
Scotland -28 16 £488 +4.84% 35
Wales +13 14 £450 -16.28% 17
Northern Ireland - 3 £291 - 23
North East -5 1 £625 -28.45% 22

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 34 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 31 (5.77%) Confluence
3 7 (1.30%) SAS
4 6 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.12%) CMS
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Drupal
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.19%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 51 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (9.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 39 (7.26%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (7.26%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.93%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.37%) InVision
6 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.19%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.19%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.19%) Simulink
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 20 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.86%) Teamcenter
3 9 (1.68%) Endur
4 6 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.93%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.93%) Shopify
6 4 (0.74%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.74%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.74%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.74%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.74%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.56%) Maximo
7 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.56%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.37%) Primavera
8 2 (0.37%) SAP MDG-S
8 2 (0.37%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.92%) Azure
2 51 (9.50%) Power Platform
3 45 (8.38%) AWS
4 22 (4.10%) GCP
5 18 (3.35%) SaaS
6 17 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.17%) Serverless
7 16 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.42%) Amazon S3
8 13 (2.42%) GitHub
9 12 (2.23%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.86%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (1.49%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.30%) Amazon Glacier
13 7 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.30%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.79%) Firewall
2 10 (1.86%) VPN
3 7 (1.30%) Network Security
4 6 (1.12%) DNS
4 6 (1.12%) LAN
5 5 (0.93%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.93%) SSL
5 5 (0.93%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.74%) Internet
6 4 (0.74%) Wireless
7 3 (0.56%) BGP
7 3 (0.56%) DMZ
7 3 (0.56%) DWDM
7 3 (0.56%) HTTP
7 3 (0.56%) IPsec
7 3 (0.56%) L2TP
7 3 (0.56%) MPLS
7 3 (0.56%) OSPF
7 3 (0.56%) WAN
7 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.57%) Power BI
2 20 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (3.72%) Tableau
3 14 (2.61%) Big Data
4 11 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.30%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.30%) Metadata
5 7 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.74%) Apache Hive
8 4 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.74%) DB2
8 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.56%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.56%) QlikView
9 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (5.59%) JIRA
2 18 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.86%) GitLab
4 7 (1.30%) ERwin
5 6 (1.12%) Eclipse
5 6 (1.12%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.56%) Hudson
7 3 (0.56%) JUnit
7 3 (0.56%) Mockito
7 3 (0.56%) Postman
7 3 (0.56%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.56%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.37%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.37%) Git
8 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) CMake
9 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 414 (77.09%) Social Skills
2 180 (33.52%) Finance
3 115 (21.42%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.82%) Marketing
5 39 (7.26%) Banking
6 32 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (3.54%) Retail
11 17 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.61%) Legal
13 8 (1.49%) General Ledger
13 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.30%) Military
15 5 (0.93%) Advertising
15 5 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.93%) Automotive
15 5 (0.93%) Back Office
15 5 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 100 (18.62%) Analyst
2 63 (11.73%) Architect
3 49 (9.12%) Business Analyst
4 48 (8.94%) Senior
5 47 (8.75%) Lead
6 39 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (7.08%) Consultant
8 25 (4.66%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.10%) Developer
10 14 (2.61%) Trainer
11 13 (2.42%) Data Analyst
12 11 (2.05%) Systems Engineer
13 10 (1.86%) Product Manager
13 10 (1.86%) Report Analyst
13 10 (1.86%) SAP Consultant
13 10 (1.86%) Software Engineer
13 10 (1.86%) Technical Architect
14 9 (1.68%) Integration Architect
14 9 (1.68%) Technical Solutions Architect
15 8 (1.49%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.79%) HTML
1 15 (2.79%) Kafka
2 13 (2.42%) CSS
3 12 (2.23%) Web Services
4 11 (2.05%) RESTful
5 10 (1.86%) .NET
6 9 (1.68%) REST
7 7 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (1.30%) JSON
7 7 (1.30%) Node.js
8 6 (1.12%) SOAP
9 5 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (0.93%) React
9 5 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (0.93%) VML
10 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.74%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.74%) Pandas
10 4 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.45%) Management Information System
2 36 (6.70%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.17%) Operational Technology
6 16 (2.98%) PMI
7 13 (2.42%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.05%) e-Learning
8 11 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.86%) NHS
9 10 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.49%) Reference Data
11 8 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.30%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.10%) Windows
2 19 (3.54%) Linux
3 6 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.93%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.93%) Windows 8
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.93%) Windows XP
5 4 (0.74%) Android
6 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (32.40%) Problem-Solving
2 145 (27.00%) Agile
3 122 (22.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 91 (16.95%) Project Management
5 82 (15.27%) Analytics
6 74 (13.78%) Decision-Making
7 69 (12.85%) Roadmaps
8 58 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (10.80%) Data Analysis
9 53 (9.87%) Change Management
10 52 (9.68%) Project Delivery
11 48 (8.94%) CI/CD
12 47 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (8.01%) Business Analysis
14 42 (7.82%) DevOps
15 41 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
16 40 (7.45%) Collaborative Working
16 40 (7.45%) User Experience
17 39 (7.26%) Workshop Facilitation
18 38 (7.08%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 65 (12.10%) SQL
2 59 (10.99%) Python
3 35 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 33 (6.15%) Java
5 13 (2.42%) C#
6 11 (2.05%) C++
7 10 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.30%) Bicep
9 6 (1.12%) Bash
10 5 (0.93%) Go
10 5 (0.93%) Rust
11 4 (0.74%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.74%) Perl
11 4 (0.74%) R
11 4 (0.74%) VBA
12 3 (0.56%) ABAP
12 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (18.62%) Degree
2 74 (13.78%) Security Cleared
3 59 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.03%) Master's Degree
5 26 (4.84%) PMI Certification
6 16 (2.98%) CISSP
6 16 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.42%) CISM
8 11 (2.05%) PMP
9 9 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.49%) SAP Certification
11 7 (1.30%) CISA
11 7 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.30%) PhD
12 5 (0.93%) CEH
13 4 (0.74%) CCNA
13 4 (0.74%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.08%) PMO
2 21 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.98%) QA
4 15 (2.79%) GDPR
4 15 (2.79%) NIST
5 14 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.86%) GRC
8 6 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.74%) SLA
11 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.37%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.37%) NCSC
12 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (3.54%) Docker
2 9 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.61%) Terraform
3 9 (1.68%) Ansible
4 6 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.93%) SCCM
6 4 (0.74%) Grafana
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.19%) Kibana
8 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.19%) Nagios
8 1 (0.19%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) QRadar
8 1 (0.19%) SELinux
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.19%) TADDM
8 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 103 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.36%) SAP
3 23 (4.28%) Oracle
4 19 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.54%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.98%) Adobe
6 14 (2.61%) Google
7 12 (2.23%) IBM
8 10 (1.86%) Databricks
9 8 (1.49%) Cisco
10 7 (1.30%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.93%) Canon
12 5 (0.93%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.93%) IFS
12 5 (0.93%) Splunk
13 4 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.74%) Broadcom
13 4 (0.74%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.56%) Arista