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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 110 116
Rank change year-on-year -48 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 535 859 1,297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 2.00% 2.24%
As % of the General category 2.87% 3.44% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 503 809
10th Percentile £310 £259 £325
25th Percentile £409 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £700
90th Percentile £750 £750 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 41 34
10th Percentile £15.53 £21.25 £15.31
25th Percentile £30.38 £33.00 £31.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -12.82% +40.01%
75th Percentile £72.69 £65.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £93.75 - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +52.94% -19.05% +60.21%

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 18,658 24,955 33,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.34% 58.03% 58.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,868 15,747 23,499
10th Percentile £295 £275 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 1,935 1,038
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.76 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.91
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -11.06% +54.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.89 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.55 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £28.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year -13.47% -1.72% +54.07%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -29 465 £525 - 1,998
London -24 267 £531 +1.19% 1,219
UK excluding London -27 218 £500 -4.76% 1,023
Work from Home +1 199 £500 -4.76% 1,188
Midlands +35 51 £525 -2.33% 146
North of England +18 50 £504 -10.88% 229
South East -25 36 £478 -9.05% 378
West Midlands +26 34 £550 - 65
North West +18 31 £413 -17.50% 125
South West -2 27 £500 +7.99% 109
East of England +9 24 £500 - 94
Yorkshire +13 17 £519 -13.58% 82
East Midlands +14 16 £437 -12.70% 72
Scotland -27 16 £475 +2.15% 52
Wales +11 13 £366 -31.98% 27
North East -8 3 £533 -40.63% 26
Northern Ireland - 3 £434 - 30

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 33 (6.17%) Confluence
1 33 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.12%) CMS
3 3 (0.56%) SAS
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Drupal
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.37%) WordPress
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.19%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 51 (9.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 49 (9.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (7.66%) MS Visio
4 38 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.93%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.37%) InVision
7 2 (0.37%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.19%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.19%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.19%) Simulink
8 1 (0.19%) Sketch
8 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.06%) Teamcenter
3 10 (1.87%) 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 (0.75%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.75%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.75%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.75%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.56%) Maximo
7 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.56%) SAP Retail
8 2 (0.37%) Primavera
8 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.37%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.96%) Azure
2 53 (9.91%) Power Platform
3 46 (8.60%) AWS
4 22 (4.11%) GCP
5 19 (3.55%) SaaS
6 17 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.18%) Serverless
7 14 (2.62%) Amazon S3
8 13 (2.43%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.24%) GitHub
10 11 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (1.50%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.31%) Amazon Glacier
13 7 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.31%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.80%) Firewall
2 10 (1.87%) VPN
3 7 (1.31%) 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 (0.75%) Internet
6 4 (0.75%) 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 48 (8.97%) Power BI
2 22 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (3.93%) Tableau
4 14 (2.62%) Big Data
5 11 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.50%) Metadata
7 7 (1.31%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.75%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.75%) DB2
10 4 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.75%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.75%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.56%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (5.79%) JIRA
2 17 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.87%) GitLab
4 7 (1.31%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.31%) ERwin
5 6 (1.12%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.75%) 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%) REST Assured
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%) Selenium
8 2 (0.37%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.19%) CMake
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
General
1 408 (76.26%) Social Skills
2 177 (33.08%) Finance
3 111 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.85%) Banking
5 41 (7.66%) Marketing
6 33 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (5.79%) Public Sector
8 29 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (3.36%) Manufacturing
11 17 (3.18%) Retail
12 14 (2.62%) Legal
13 8 (1.50%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.31%) Front Office
14 7 (1.31%) Military
14 7 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.12%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.12%) Automotive
15 6 (1.12%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 100 (18.69%) Analyst
2 66 (12.34%) Architect
3 49 (9.16%) Business Analyst
4 48 (8.97%) Senior
5 47 (8.79%) Lead
6 41 (7.66%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (7.10%) Consultant
8 24 (4.49%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.11%) Developer
10 15 (2.80%) Data Analyst
10 15 (2.80%) Trainer
11 12 (2.24%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.06%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.06%) Technical Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.87%) Report Analyst
13 10 (1.87%) Software Engineer
14 9 (1.68%) Data Business Analyst
14 9 (1.68%) Integration Architect
14 9 (1.68%) SAP Consultant
15 8 (1.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.80%) HTML
1 15 (2.80%) Kafka
2 13 (2.43%) CSS
3 12 (2.24%) Web Services
4 11 (2.06%) RESTful
5 10 (1.87%) .NET
5 10 (1.87%) REST
6 7 (1.31%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (1.31%) JSON
6 7 (1.31%) Node.js
7 6 (1.12%) Pandas
7 6 (1.12%) SOAP
7 6 (1.12%) TensorFlow
8 5 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (0.93%) React
8 5 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (0.93%) VML
9 4 (0.75%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.66%) Management Information System
2 40 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.18%) Operational Technology
6 16 (2.99%) PMI
7 14 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.06%) e-Learning
9 11 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.87%) NHS
10 10 (1.87%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.68%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.50%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.31%) Taxonomies
14 6 (1.12%) Derivative
14 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.30%) Windows
2 19 (3.55%) Linux
3 7 (1.31%) 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 (0.75%) 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
1 169 (31.59%) Problem-Solving
2 145 (27.10%) Agile
3 120 (22.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 85 (15.89%) Project Management
5 74 (13.83%) Analytics
6 68 (12.71%) Decision-Making
6 68 (12.71%) Roadmaps
7 61 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
8 56 (10.47%) Data Analysis
9 51 (9.53%) Change Management
9 51 (9.53%) Project Delivery
10 50 (9.35%) CI/CD
11 46 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (8.22%) Business Analysis
13 43 (8.04%) DevOps
14 41 (7.66%) User Experience
15 40 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (7.48%) Workshop Facilitation
16 39 (7.29%) Collaborative Working
16 39 (7.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 64 (11.96%) SQL
2 59 (11.03%) Python
3 35 (6.54%) JavaScript
4 34 (6.36%) Java
5 13 (2.43%) C#
6 11 (2.06%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.87%) C++
8 7 (1.31%) Bicep
9 6 (1.12%) Bash
10 5 (0.93%) Go
10 5 (0.93%) R
10 5 (0.93%) Rust
11 4 (0.75%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.75%) Perl
11 4 (0.75%) VBA
12 3 (0.56%) ABAP
12 3 (0.56%) Groovy
12 3 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (18.69%) Degree
2 76 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 59 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.23%) Master's Degree
5 27 (5.05%) PMI Certification
6 17 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.99%) CISSP
8 13 (2.43%) CISM
9 12 (2.24%) PMP
10 9 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.68%) SAP Certification
11 8 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.31%) CISA
12 7 (1.31%) PhD
13 5 (0.93%) CBAP
13 5 (0.93%) CEH
14 4 (0.75%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.73%) PMO
2 20 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.18%) QA
4 15 (2.80%) GDPR
5 14 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.62%) NIST
6 13 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.87%) GRC
8 6 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.12%) SLA
9 5 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.37%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.37%) MiFID
11 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.37%) WAI
11 2 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (3.55%) Docker
2 10 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.80%) Terraform
3 9 (1.68%) Ansible
4 6 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.93%) SCCM
6 4 (0.75%) 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%) HP Quality Center
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
1 107 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 59 (11.03%) SAP
3 25 (4.67%) Oracle
4 20 (3.74%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.74%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.80%) Adobe
6 14 (2.62%) Google
7 12 (2.24%) IBM
8 10 (1.87%) Databricks
9 8 (1.50%) Cisco
10 7 (1.31%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.31%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.93%) Canon
11 5 (0.93%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.93%) IFS
11 5 (0.93%) Splunk
12 4 (0.75%) Broadcom
12 4 (0.75%) Dell
12 4 (0.75%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.75%) VMware