Microsoft PowerPoint Job Trends

Microsoft PowerPoint
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microsoft PowerPoint skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 146 218
Rank change year-on-year -119 +72 +25
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 533 988 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 2.02% 1.46%
As % of the Applications category 9.41% 19.70% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 253 228 595
10th Percentile £26,350 £30,850 £25,468
25th Percentile £31,500 £38,375 £28,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -22.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £80,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +9.76% -8.89%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft PowerPoint falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 5,662 5,014 6,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.26% 10.25% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 2,034 5,046
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -6.67%

Microsoft PowerPoint
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft PowerPoint relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft PowerPoint job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft PowerPoint in the UK

Microsoft PowerPoint
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint within the UK over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -130 427 £45,000 -10.00% 241
UK excluding London -53 318 £41,000 -8.89% 168
London -117 184 £50,000 - 98
Work from Home +45 147 £47,500 -6.54% 92
South East -43 85 £40,000 -11.11% 59
North of England -55 68 £46,737 +9.97% 34
Scotland +40 67 £57,500 -0.92% 15
North West -54 38 £33,000 -24.79% 19
East of England -36 36 £46,500 -15.45% 10
Midlands -25 34 £41,500 -7.78% 34
West Midlands -4 25 £34,750 -39.04% 24
South West -28 21 £38,000 -14.53% 16
North East +4 16 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Yorkshire -39 14 £62,500 +56.25% 14
East Midlands -22 9 £65,000 +66.67% 10
Wales 0 5 - -
Northern Ireland -21 4 £59,000 - 3

Microsoft PowerPoint
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
1 104 (19.51%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.81%) Confluence
3 10 (1.88%) Skype for Business
4 9 (1.69%) CMS
5 6 (1.13%) SAS
6 4 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.75%) WordPress
7 3 (0.56%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 495 (92.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 266 (49.91%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (7.32%) MS Visio
4 16 (3.00%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (2.63%) Photoshop
6 12 (2.25%) InDesign
7 9 (1.69%) Adobe Premiere
7 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.38%) SPSS
11 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.19%) CapCut
11 1 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.56%) Yoast SEO
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.38%) Relativity
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 62 (11.63%) Power Platform
2 57 (10.69%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (9.01%) Azure
4 24 (4.50%) AWS
4 24 (4.50%) SaaS
5 20 (3.75%) OneDrive
6 15 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (1.31%) Miro
9 6 (1.13%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.94%) Canva
10 5 (0.94%) ChatGPT
11 4 (0.75%) GitHub
11 4 (0.75%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.75%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.56%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.56%) Figma
12 3 (0.56%) GCP
12 3 (0.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.75%) Unified Communications
2 13 (2.44%) Wireless
3 10 (1.88%) Skype
3 10 (1.88%) WebEx
4 6 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.94%) Internet
5 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.75%) Broadband
7 3 (0.56%) 4G
7 3 (0.56%) 5G
7 3 (0.56%) GSM
7 3 (0.56%) Intranet
7 3 (0.56%) LAN
7 3 (0.56%) Network Security
7 3 (0.56%) TETRA
7 3 (0.56%) UMTS
8 2 (0.38%) DHCP
8 2 (0.38%) Firewall
8 2 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.51%) Power BI
2 20 (3.75%) Tableau
3 10 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.69%) DB2
4 9 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.31%) Power Query
6 6 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (0.94%) Data Mining
7 5 (0.94%) GIS
8 4 (0.75%) Big Data
8 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.75%) Looker
9 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.38%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.38%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.38%) Impala
Development Applications
1 26 (4.88%) JIRA
2 9 (1.69%) Bitbucket
2 9 (1.69%) Cucumber
2 9 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.69%) Selenium
2 9 (1.69%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.19%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.19%) Git
3 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 327 (61.35%) Social Skills
2 168 (31.52%) Finance
3 125 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (16.89%) Marketing
5 62 (11.63%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (8.63%) Legal
7 45 (8.44%) Law
8 42 (7.88%) Retail
9 38 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (5.25%) Banking
11 27 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (4.88%) Telecoms
13 24 (4.50%) French Language
14 23 (4.32%) German Language
15 18 (3.38%) Dutch Language
16 15 (2.81%) Financial Institution
17 13 (2.44%) Public Sector
18 11 (2.06%) Advertising
18 11 (2.06%) Spanish Language
19 10 (1.88%) Billing
Job Titles
1 104 (19.51%) Analyst
2 101 (18.95%) Senior
3 71 (13.32%) Senior Manager
4 64 (12.01%) QA Manager
4 64 (12.01%) Quality Manager
4 64 (12.01%) Senior QA Manager
4 64 (12.01%) Senior Quality Manager
5 41 (7.69%) Support Analyst
6 35 (6.57%) IT Support
7 27 (5.07%) IT Analyst
8 23 (4.32%) IT Support Analyst
9 22 (4.13%) Coordinator
10 21 (3.94%) Technical Support
11 18 (3.38%) Lead
12 17 (3.19%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.19%) Consultant
13 15 (2.81%) Administrator
13 15 (2.81%) Developer
13 15 (2.81%) Support Engineer
13 15 (2.81%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.88%) CSS
1 10 (1.88%) HTML
2 9 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (1.69%) Gherkin
2 9 (1.69%) Node.js
2 9 (1.69%) React
2 9 (1.69%) RESTful
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.38%) OAuth
4 2 (0.38%) OpenID
4 2 (0.38%) PySpark
5 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.19%) Express.js
5 1 (0.19%) JSON
5 1 (0.19%) MFC
5 1 (0.19%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.19%) SciPy
5 1 (0.19%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.19%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.13%) Onboarding
2 44 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (5.25%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.50%) Video Conferencing
5 23 (4.32%) e-Learning
6 21 (3.94%) Social Media
7 17 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
10 11 (2.06%) Driving Licence
11 10 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.50%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.13%) Digital Media
14 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.94%) PMI
15 4 (0.75%) Animation
15 4 (0.75%) Graphic Design
16 3 (0.56%) Data Centre
16 3 (0.56%) Motion Graphics
16 3 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.50%) Windows
2 9 (1.69%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.13%) Linux
4 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.56%) Unix
5 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 135 (25.33%) Project Management
3 107 (20.08%) Coaching
4 102 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (16.32%) Customer Experience
6 80 (15.01%) Business Intelligence
7 72 (13.51%) Agile
8 69 (12.95%) Quality Management
9 66 (12.38%) Due Diligence
10 65 (12.20%) Six Sigma
11 64 (12.01%) Lean Six Sigma
11 64 (12.01%) Performance Improvement
12 63 (11.82%) Analytics
13 57 (10.69%) Data Analysis
14 55 (10.32%) CRM
14 55 (10.32%) Project Delivery
15 51 (9.57%) Decision-Making
16 50 (9.38%) Customer Service
17 48 (9.01%) ITIL
18 44 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.44%) SQL
2 18 (3.38%) Python
3 15 (2.81%) Java
4 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.50%) VBA
6 6 (1.13%) R
7 5 (0.94%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.56%) VB
8 3 (0.56%) VBScript
9 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.19%) ABAP
10 1 (0.19%) C
10 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.19%) RPG
10 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (28.89%) Degree
2 64 (12.01%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 25 (4.69%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.75%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.00%) PMP
7 13 (2.44%) A+ Certification
8 11 (2.06%) Security Cleared
9 9 (1.69%) CISSP
10 8 (1.50%) CISM
11 7 (1.31%) CFA
12 6 (1.13%) CISA
12 6 (1.13%) SC Cleared
13 5 (0.94%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.94%) ISACA
13 5 (0.94%) MBA
13 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.94%) SANS
14 4 (0.75%) ACCA
14 4 (0.75%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (16.70%) QA
2 32 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (4.88%) PMO
4 18 (3.38%) ISO 9001
5 14 (2.63%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.25%) GDPR
7 8 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.50%) NIST
8 7 (1.31%) GRC
9 6 (1.13%) SLA
10 5 (0.94%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.38%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.38%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 1 (0.19%) GAAP
13 1 (0.19%) GxP
13 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 19 (3.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.69%) Docker
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.13%) RSA Archer
3 5 (0.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (0.94%) FTK
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 327 (61.35%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.94%) Adobe
3 20 (3.75%) Apple
4 18 (3.38%) SAP
5 15 (2.81%) Cisco
6 13 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.25%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.25%) Oracle
7 12 (2.25%) Polycom
8 11 (2.06%) Google
9 9 (1.69%) Zoho
10 6 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.94%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.94%) YouTube
12 4 (0.75%) Facebook
12 4 (0.75%) IBM
12 4 (0.75%) IFS
12 4 (0.75%) TikTok
12 4 (0.75%) VMware