Presentation Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 129 170
Rank change year-on-year -2 +41 +10
Permanent jobs citing Presentation Skills 2,159 2,800 3,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.20% 2.66% 2.35%
As % of the General category 3.67% 3.87% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 1,051 1,871
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -1.23%
75th Percentile £72,108 £86,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,875 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +1.94%

All General Skills
UK

Presentation Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,777 72,286 97,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.87% 68.73% 63.53%
Number of salaries quoted 39,592 38,758 50,916
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Presentation Skills.

Salary trend for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presentation Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +10 1,753 £52,500 -22.22% 1,213
UK excluding London -10 1,397 £50,000 -11.11% 723
Work from Home +8 789 £57,500 -11.54% 405
London 0 581 £60,600 -19.20% 511
South West +93 297 £43,500 -1.13% 117
North of England -32 265 £51,528 -6.31% 163
South East -65 230 £50,000 -13.04% 180
Midlands -40 183 £52,500 -12.50% 142
Scotland -43 167 £60,000 - 37
North West -48 156 £55,000 - 99
East of England +86 147 £52,500 -16.00% 101
Wales +7 98 £62,500 +127.27% 21
West Midlands -76 94 £59,556 -0.74% 88
Yorkshire +58 85 £51,528 -6.31% 47
East Midlands +8 81 £43,750 -32.69% 54
North East -8 24 £39,000 +5.31% 21
Northern Ireland +8 12 £65,000 +36.84% 7

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
1 133 (6.16%) Confluence
2 54 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.71%) Apache
4 29 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.25%) SAS
6 7 (0.32%) MS Project Server
7 6 (0.28%) CMS
7 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.23%) Appian
8 5 (0.23%) IIS
9 4 (0.19%) WordPress
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.14%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.093%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 189 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 143 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (3.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
5 41 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.93%) AutoCAD
7 13 (0.60%) Adobe XD
8 12 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
9 10 (0.46%) Sketch
10 9 (0.42%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.32%) InDesign
11 7 (0.32%) InVision
12 6 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.23%) Simulink
14 3 (0.14%) SketchUp
15 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.093%) Maya
15 2 (0.093%) MotionBuilder
15 2 (0.093%) SPSS
15 2 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.65%) Workday HCM
3 13 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
3 13 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 12 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 12 (0.56%) SAP HR
5 11 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.23%) Endur
9 5 (0.23%) Odoo
10 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.14%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.14%) Shopify
11 2 (0.093%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 379 (17.55%) Azure
2 362 (16.77%) AWS
3 186 (8.62%) SaaS
4 176 (8.15%) Microsoft 365
5 172 (7.97%) Power Platform
6 164 (7.60%) GCP
7 37 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (1.39%) Serverless
9 28 (1.30%) GitHub
10 26 (1.20%) Azure API Management
11 24 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.07%) OCI
13 21 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (0.88%) Entra ID
15 17 (0.79%) Asana
15 17 (0.79%) OpenShift
15 17 (0.79%) Snowflake
16 15 (0.69%) IaaS
17 14 (0.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.78%) Firewall
2 39 (1.81%) WAN
3 35 (1.62%) 5G
4 31 (1.44%) Network Security
4 31 (1.44%) SD-WAN
5 30 (1.39%) LAN
6 27 (1.25%) DNS
7 25 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (0.88%) Wireless
10 18 (0.83%) Intranet
11 14 (0.65%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.60%) Internet
13 10 (0.46%) VoIP
14 9 (0.42%) VPN
15 7 (0.32%) 4G
15 7 (0.32%) HTTP
15 7 (0.32%) SMTP
16 5 (0.23%) SSL
17 4 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.62%) Power BI
2 131 (6.07%) Tableau
3 67 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 31 (1.44%) Big Data
5 31 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 27 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 21 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.74%) Hadoop
9 16 (0.74%) Metadata
10 15 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.65%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.60%) Data Mining
12 13 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (0.42%) Spotfire
16 8 (0.37%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 187 (8.66%) Git
2 162 (7.50%) JIRA
3 89 (4.12%) Bitbucket
4 88 (4.08%) Visual Studio
5 59 (2.73%) Sourcetree
6 18 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 17 (0.79%) IBM UrbanCode
8 15 (0.69%) Postman
9 13 (0.60%) Axure RP
9 13 (0.60%) Balsamiq
9 13 (0.60%) LabVIEW
10 12 (0.56%) Moq
11 9 (0.42%) NUnit
12 7 (0.32%) RStudio
13 6 (0.28%) GitLab
14 5 (0.23%) Katalon Studio
15 4 (0.19%) Burp Suite
15 4 (0.19%) InstallShield
15 4 (0.19%) Metasploit
15 4 (0.19%) MSI
General
1 1,436 (66.51%) Social Skills
2 584 (27.05%) Finance
3 485 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (12.83%) Marketing
5 273 (12.64%) Law
6 262 (12.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 232 (10.75%) Retail
8 229 (10.61%) Influencing Skills
9 189 (8.75%) Public Sector
10 172 (7.97%) Manufacturing
11 144 (6.67%) Banking
12 115 (5.33%) Games
13 82 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
14 67 (3.10%) Billing
15 64 (2.96%) Local Government
16 51 (2.36%) Investment Banking
17 45 (2.08%) Aerospace
17 45 (2.08%) Legal
18 40 (1.85%) Telecoms
19 39 (1.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 339 (15.70%) Senior
2 304 (14.08%) Analyst
3 245 (11.35%) Architect
4 186 (8.62%) Consultant
5 185 (8.57%) Developer
6 169 (7.83%) Project Manager
7 134 (6.21%) Lead
8 125 (5.79%) Graduate
9 120 (5.56%) Data Analyst
10 119 (5.51%) IT Graduate
11 116 (5.37%) IT Engineer
12 115 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
12 115 (5.33%) Graduate IT Engineer
13 92 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
14 88 (4.08%) 3D Developer
14 88 (4.08%) Games Developer
14 88 (4.08%) Unity 3D Developer
15 85 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
16 83 (3.84%) Senior Manager
17 75 (3.47%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 32 (1.48%) HTML
3 27 (1.25%) CSS
4 23 (1.07%) React
5 22 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 21 (0.97%) .NET
6 21 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
6 21 (0.97%) REST
7 15 (0.69%) EDI
8 14 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
8 14 (0.65%) OpenAPI
8 14 (0.65%) Swagger
9 13 (0.60%) .NET Core
9 13 (0.60%) Web Services
10 12 (0.56%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.51%) pytest
12 10 (0.46%) JSON
12 10 (0.46%) Spring
13 9 (0.42%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.42%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 155 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
2 128 (5.93%) FMCG
3 107 (4.96%) Public Cloud
4 103 (4.77%) Management Information System
5 90 (4.17%) Virtual Reality
6 89 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 81 (3.75%) PKI
8 76 (3.52%) Onboarding
9 57 (2.64%) NHS
10 55 (2.55%) Cloud Native
11 44 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 41 (1.90%) Housing Association
13 39 (1.81%) Virtual Team
14 38 (1.76%) Driving Licence
15 32 (1.48%) IoT
16 30 (1.39%) Mobile App
16 30 (1.39%) Reinsurance
17 26 (1.20%) Robotics
18 23 (1.07%) Taxonomies
19 22 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 102 (4.72%) Windows
2 83 (3.84%) Linux
3 30 (1.39%) Android
3 30 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.11%) Unix
6 8 (0.37%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.19%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.14%) CentOS
9 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.046%) VMS
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (33.30%) Problem-Solving
2 550 (25.47%) Agile
3 502 (23.25%) Project Management
4 301 (13.94%) Analytics
5 257 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
6 255 (11.81%) Data Analysis
7 247 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 241 (11.16%) Business Development
8 241 (11.16%) Project Delivery
9 230 (10.65%) Scrum
10 223 (10.33%) DevOps
11 219 (10.14%) Coaching
12 211 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 206 (9.54%) Presales
14 202 (9.36%) Roadmaps
15 189 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
16 179 (8.29%) Visualisation
17 178 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence
17 178 (8.24%) Decision-Making
17 178 (8.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 260 (12.04%) Python
2 247 (11.44%) SQL
3 133 (6.16%) C#
4 61 (2.83%) Java
5 51 (2.36%) R
6 41 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 33 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 25 (1.16%) C
8 25 (1.16%) C++
9 24 (1.11%) MATLAB
10 19 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 17 (0.79%) Groovy
12 13 (0.60%) VBA
13 11 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.46%) VB
15 8 (0.37%) Bash
16 6 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.14%) ABAP
17 3 (0.14%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.093%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 777 (35.99%) Degree
2 258 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 220 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 121 (5.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 115 (5.33%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 99 (4.59%) DBS Check
7 74 (3.43%) Azure Certification
8 68 (3.15%) ACCA
9 62 (2.87%) AWS Certification
10 58 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 53 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 51 (2.36%) Master's Degree
13 40 (1.85%) PMI Certification
14 36 (1.67%) CISSP
15 30 (1.39%) CISM
16 25 (1.16%) PMP
17 24 (1.11%) HND
18 23 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
18 23 (1.07%) OSCP
19 19 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (4.45%) PMO
2 69 (3.20%) IFRS
3 55 (2.55%) GAAP
4 39 (1.81%) GDPR
4 39 (1.81%) SLA
5 38 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 33 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 19 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (0.88%) NIST
9 18 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.83%) QA
10 16 (0.74%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.69%) CRD IV
11 15 (0.69%) IFRS 9
12 14 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.60%) WCAG
14 12 (0.56%) GRC
15 11 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.79%) Docker
3 14 (0.65%) Firmware
4 11 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (1.57%) Terraform
2 29 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.30%) Ansible
4 19 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.32%) Graphite
6 7 (0.32%) SCCM
7 4 (0.19%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.19%) Nmap
7 4 (0.19%) WSUS
8 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.14%) CASB
9 2 (0.093%) Grafana
9 2 (0.093%) Nagios
9 2 (0.093%) Puppet
9 2 (0.093%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.046%) Control-M
10 1 (0.046%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.046%) Kibana
10 1 (0.046%) Salt
Vendors
1 533 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 143 (6.62%) Google
3 108 (5.00%) Databricks
4 82 (3.80%) SAP
5 78 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 59 (2.73%) CA
7 58 (2.69%) Oracle
8 42 (1.95%) Adobe
9 31 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.34%) Cisco
11 26 (1.20%) IBM
12 24 (1.11%) Alteryx
13 17 (0.79%) Workday
14 14 (0.65%) Dell
15 13 (0.60%) VMware
16 12 (0.56%) Northgate
17 11 (0.51%) Juniper
17 11 (0.51%) Meraki
18 9 (0.42%) Civica
19 8 (0.37%) Facebook