Presentation Skills Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Presentation Skills
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 74 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 62 31 38
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.77% 1.86% 2.07%
As % of the General category 4.76% 3.02% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 32
10th Percentile £386 £418 £356
25th Percentile £413 £499 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £566 £580 £600
90th Percentile £600 £584 £739
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £20.65 £17.16
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.88 £21.09
Median hourly rate £16.50 £21.50 £28.02
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% -23.27% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £21.88 £35.32
90th Percentile - £21.95 £39.48
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.53
% change year-on-year - +5.64% -5.34%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,303 1,025 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 58.17% 61.64% 54.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 636 689
10th Percentile £211 £207 £224
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £576 £612 £606
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 41 44
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.70 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.00 £16.38
Median hourly rate £22.51 £23.82 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +30.52% +3.58%
75th Percentile £30.75 £31.31 £34.50
90th Percentile £42.41 £50.00 £64.63
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.31 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.21% -8.17% +32.00%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Presentation Skills job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the West Midlands

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Presentation Skills
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Birmingham +7 23 £463 -20.26% 22
Warwickshire -4 15 £600 +20.00% 3
Shropshire - 11 £400 - 4
Coventry - 7 £396 - 2
Staffordshire +3 1 £435 -20.91%
Solihull - 1 - - 3
Presentation Skills
England

Presentation Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (22.58%) Confluence
2 10 (16.13%) nginx
3 3 (4.84%) Drupal
4 2 (3.23%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.23%) Adobe XD
5 2 (3.23%) Sketch
6 1 (1.61%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.61%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.61%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Azure
3 13 (20.97%) Amazon S3
4 12 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (17.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (17.74%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (17.74%) AWS KMS
6 10 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (16.13%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (16.13%) Route 53
7 4 (6.45%) Datadog
7 4 (6.45%) GCP
7 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.23%) Figma
8 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (24.19%) Firewall
1 15 (24.19%) SSH
2 12 (19.35%) DNS
3 10 (16.13%) FTP
3 10 (16.13%) HTTP
3 10 (16.13%) IMAP
3 10 (16.13%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (16.13%) SMTP
4 5 (8.06%) Kerberos
5 4 (6.45%) VSAN
6 3 (4.84%) Internet
6 3 (4.84%) LAN
6 3 (4.84%) WAN
7 2 (3.23%) BGP
7 2 (3.23%) DHCP
7 2 (3.23%) IPv4
7 2 (3.23%) IPv6
7 2 (3.23%) MPLS
7 2 (3.23%) OSPF
7 2 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (16.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.06%) MySQL
5 4 (6.45%) Power BI
6 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.61%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Git
2 13 (20.97%) JIRA
3 10 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.13%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.61%) CANoe
4 1 (1.61%) LabVIEW
General
1 41 (66.13%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.97%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.52%) Finance
5 5 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Billing
8 1 (1.61%) Electronics
8 1 (1.61%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (12.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Architect
5 6 (9.68%) Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Management Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Storage Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.19%) LDAP
2 6 (9.68%) RESTful
3 5 (8.06%) OAuth
3 5 (8.06%) SAML
4 3 (4.84%) CSS
4 3 (4.84%) HTML
5 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.23%) CSS3
5 2 (3.23%) Drush
5 2 (3.23%) HTML5
5 2 (3.23%) MACH
5 2 (3.23%) Node.js
5 2 (3.23%) React
5 2 (3.23%) Web Services
6 1 (1.61%) MUnit
6 1 (1.61%) RAML
6 1 (1.61%) REST
6 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.61%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.61%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Replication
2 6 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.84%) PKI
5 3 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (35.48%) Linux
2 17 (27.42%) Windows
3 10 (16.13%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (16.13%) Ubuntu
3 10 (16.13%) VMS
4 5 (8.06%) AIX
4 5 (8.06%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Agile
2 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (20.97%) Change Management
3 13 (20.97%) Decision-Making
4 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 12 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
5 11 (17.74%) DevOps
6 10 (16.13%) Cloud Security
6 10 (16.13%) Configuration Management
6 10 (16.13%) Patch Management
6 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (14.52%) Roadmaps
8 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
9 7 (11.29%) Data Analysis
9 7 (11.29%) Performance Metrics
9 7 (11.29%) Scrum
10 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
10 6 (9.68%) Key Management
10 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) SQL
2 19 (30.65%) Python
3 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
4 10 (16.13%) Groovy
5 4 (6.45%) Java
6 3 (4.84%) Bash
6 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.23%) PHP
7 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.23%) Ruby
7 2 (3.23%) VB
8 1 (1.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) AWS Certification
1 14 (22.58%) Degree
2 11 (17.74%) Azure Certification
2 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.23%) CCIE
4 2 (3.23%) CCNP
4 2 (3.23%) CCSP
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.23%) CISSP
4 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.06%) NIST
1 5 (8.06%) PCI DSS
1 5 (8.06%) PMO
2 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
2 3 (4.84%) WCAG
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) GRC
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Docker
2 10 (16.13%) DFS Replication
2 10 (16.13%) Dovecot
2 10 (16.13%) Postfix
2 10 (16.13%) Squid
3 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
4 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (6.45%) vSphere
6 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) Terraform
2 10 (16.13%) Grafana
2 10 (16.13%) Nessus
2 10 (16.13%) Prometheus
2 10 (16.13%) Proxmox
3 5 (8.06%) QRadar
4 4 (6.45%) vRealize
4 4 (6.45%) VxRail
5 2 (3.23%) Ansible
5 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (16.13%) ServiceNow
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.68%) Cisco
4 5 (8.06%) AppDynamics
4 5 (8.06%) BeyondTrust
4 5 (8.06%) CyberArk
4 5 (8.06%) Google
4 5 (8.06%) SolarWinds
4 5 (8.06%) Splunk
4 5 (8.06%) VMware
5 4 (6.45%) Commvault
5 4 (6.45%) Dell
5 4 (6.45%) HP
5 4 (6.45%) IBM
5 4 (6.45%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.23%) Adobe
6 2 (3.23%) F5
6 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.23%) SAP