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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 164 230
Rank change year-on-year -82 +66 +25
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft PowerPoint 518 910 865
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.72% 1.38%
As % of the Applications category 9.09% 16.67% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 246 239 506
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £25,234
25th Percentile £35,875 £39,500 £30,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +16.96% -20.83%
75th Percentile £67,031 £60,265 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -12.63% +18.75% -11.11%

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 5,697 5,459 5,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.26% 10.31% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,281 2,002 3,878
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,025 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £27,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £39,982
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.80% -11.15%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -118 401 £45,000 -10.00% 255
UK excluding London -61 282 £41,500 -12.63% 219
London -74 195 £47,500 -5.00% 76
Work from Home +39 139 £47,500 -9.52% 110
South East -47 70 £40,000 -11.11% 83
Scotland +39 67 £57,500 -0.92% 10
North of England -37 67 £50,000 +10.19% 45
North West -45 38 £33,000 -27.27% 18
Midlands -9 26 £45,000 - 36
East of England -44 23 £37,500 +22.95% 31
South West -3 20 £37,750 -34.35% 13
West Midlands +1 19 £41,500 -27.19% 24
Yorkshire -11 16 £56,250 +50.00% 22
North East +18 13 £50,000 +5.26% 6
East Midlands -16 7 £65,000 +66.67% 12
Northern Ireland -3 6 £59,000 - 4
Wales +9 5 - - 6

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
1 106 (20.46%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.90%) Confluence
3 13 (2.51%) Skype for Business
4 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.97%) CMS
6 4 (0.77%) SAS
6 4 (0.77%) WordPress
7 3 (0.58%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 478 (92.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 265 (51.16%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (7.72%) MS Visio
4 19 (3.67%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (3.28%) Photoshop
6 15 (2.90%) InDesign
7 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
8 9 (1.74%) Adobe Premiere
9 7 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.39%) SPSS
11 2 (0.39%) Trello
12 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.19%) CapCut
12 1 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.58%) Yoast SEO
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.39%) Relativity
4 2 (0.39%) Towers Watson Igloo
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
Cloud Services
1 59 (11.39%) Power Platform
2 58 (11.20%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (9.65%) Azure
4 26 (5.02%) AWS
5 20 (3.86%) OneDrive
6 15 (2.90%) SaaS
7 14 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.35%) Canva
10 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.97%) Google Workspace
12 4 (0.77%) ChatGPT
12 4 (0.77%) Figma
12 4 (0.77%) Miro
12 4 (0.77%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.58%) GCP
13 3 (0.58%) Slack
13 3 (0.58%) Smartsheet
13 3 (0.58%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.39%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.44%) Unified Communications
2 18 (3.47%) Wireless
3 15 (2.90%) WebEx
4 13 (2.51%) Skype
5 6 (1.16%) DHCP
5 6 (1.16%) Internet
5 6 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.97%) DNS
6 5 (0.97%) LAN
7 4 (0.77%) Broadband
7 4 (0.77%) Firewall
7 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.58%) 4G
8 3 (0.58%) GSM
8 3 (0.58%) Intranet
8 3 (0.58%) MPLS
8 3 (0.58%) TETRA
8 3 (0.58%) UMTS
8 3 (0.58%) WAN
8 3 (0.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.23%) Power BI
2 15 (2.90%) Tableau
3 10 (1.93%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (1.74%) DB2
4 9 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.16%) Data Mining
6 5 (0.97%) Power Query
7 4 (0.77%) Big Data
7 4 (0.77%) GIS
8 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.39%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.39%) EDRMS
9 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.39%) Impala
9 2 (0.39%) Looker
9 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.19%) Metadata
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (5.79%) JIRA
2 9 (1.74%) Bitbucket
2 9 (1.74%) Cucumber
2 9 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.74%) Selenium
2 9 (1.74%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.19%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 308 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 165 (31.85%) Finance
3 131 (25.29%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (16.22%) Marketing
5 51 (9.85%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (9.65%) Law
7 44 (8.49%) Legal
8 35 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (6.37%) Retail
10 32 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (5.41%) Banking
12 27 (5.21%) Telecoms
13 16 (3.09%) Advertising
13 16 (3.09%) French Language
13 16 (3.09%) German Language
14 13 (2.51%) Billing
15 11 (2.12%) Dutch Language
15 11 (2.12%) Spanish Language
16 10 (1.93%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 110 (21.24%) Analyst
2 104 (20.08%) Senior
3 78 (15.06%) Senior Manager
4 64 (12.36%) QA Manager
4 64 (12.36%) Quality Manager
4 64 (12.36%) Senior QA Manager
4 64 (12.36%) Senior Quality Manager
5 47 (9.07%) Support Analyst
6 37 (7.14%) IT Support
7 28 (5.41%) IT Analyst
8 26 (5.02%) IT Support Analyst
9 24 (4.63%) Technical Support
10 22 (4.25%) Coordinator
11 20 (3.86%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.67%) Project Manager
13 18 (3.47%) Lead
14 17 (3.28%) Support Specialist
15 16 (3.09%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.09%) Technical Analyst
15 16 (3.09%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.93%) CSS
1 10 (1.93%) HTML
2 9 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (1.74%) Gherkin
2 9 (1.74%) Node.js
2 9 (1.74%) React
2 9 (1.74%) RESTful
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.39%) PySpark
4 2 (0.39%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (0.39%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.19%) EDI
5 1 (0.19%) Express.js
5 1 (0.19%) JSON
5 1 (0.19%) MFC
5 1 (0.19%) OAuth
5 1 (0.19%) OpenID
5 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 41 (7.92%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (5.21%) Social Media
3 27 (5.21%) Video Conferencing
4 26 (5.02%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 17 (3.28%) e-Learning
7 14 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 14 (2.70%) Web Conferencing
8 11 (2.12%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.54%) Digital Media
11 7 (1.35%) Graphic Design
12 6 (1.16%) Motion Graphics
12 6 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (0.97%) PMI
14 4 (0.77%) Animation
14 4 (0.77%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.30%) Windows
2 9 (1.74%) Windows 10
3 5 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.58%) Linux
4 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (30.50%) Project Management
2 125 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 122 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (20.66%) Coaching
5 84 (16.22%) Agile
6 81 (15.64%) Business Intelligence
6 81 (15.64%) Customer Experience
7 72 (13.90%) Quality Management
8 65 (12.55%) Data Analysis
8 65 (12.55%) Due Diligence
8 65 (12.55%) Six Sigma
9 64 (12.36%) Lean Six Sigma
9 64 (12.36%) Performance Improvement
10 62 (11.97%) Project Delivery
11 59 (11.39%) Analytics
11 59 (11.39%) Decision-Making
12 54 (10.42%) ITIL
13 44 (8.49%) AI
14 43 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (7.92%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (7.14%) SQL
2 11 (2.12%) Java
3 9 (1.74%) JavaScript
3 9 (1.74%) Python
4 8 (1.54%) VBA
5 5 (0.97%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.97%) R
6 1 (0.19%) ABAP
6 1 (0.19%) C
6 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.19%) RPG
6 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 164 (31.66%) Degree
2 64 (12.36%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 31 (5.98%) Master's Degree
4 24 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 20 (3.86%) PMP
6 17 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.09%) Security Cleared
8 13 (2.51%) A+ Certification
9 11 (2.12%) SC Cleared
10 10 (1.93%) CFA
10 10 (1.93%) MBA
11 7 (1.35%) CISM
11 7 (1.35%) CISSP
12 5 (0.97%) CISA
12 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.97%) MCP
13 4 (0.77%) ACCA
13 4 (0.77%) CIMA
13 4 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (16.22%) QA
2 37 (7.14%) PMO
3 34 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.47%) ISO 9001
5 12 (2.32%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.74%) GDPR
7 8 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.35%) NIST
9 6 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.16%) GRC
9 6 (1.16%) SLA
10 4 (0.77%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.19%) COBIT
12 1 (0.19%) FATCA
12 1 (0.19%) GAAP
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.74%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.97%) RSA Archer
4 4 (0.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.19%) FTK
Vendors
1 326 (62.93%) Microsoft
2 47 (9.07%) Adobe
3 21 (4.05%) Apple
4 17 (3.28%) Cisco
5 15 (2.90%) Polycom
6 14 (2.70%) SAP
7 12 (2.32%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.74%) Google
9 9 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.74%) Zoho
10 7 (1.35%) Facebook
10 7 (1.35%) Oracle
11 6 (1.16%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.97%) YouTube
13 4 (0.77%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.77%) IFS
13 4 (0.77%) TikTok
14 3 (0.58%) Veeam
14 3 (0.58%) VMware