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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 129 172
Rank change year-on-year -3 +43 +11
Permanent jobs citing Presentation Skills 2,153 2,823 3,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.20% 2.68% 2.35%
As % of the General category 3.67% 3.89% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,193 1,065 1,875
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £72,000 £86,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £87,250 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +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 58,648 72,561 97,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.88% 68.76% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,877 51,120
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 24 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 24 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 +1 1,749 £52,500 -22.22% 1,237
UK excluding London -8 1,396 £50,000 -13.04% 744
Work from Home +3 785 £57,500 -11.54% 433
London 0 577 £60,800 -18.93% 516
South West +107 297 £43,500 -1.13% 119
North of England -16 266 £51,528 -6.31% 170
South East -73 229 £50,000 -13.04% 186
Midlands -39 183 £52,500 -14.29% 143
Scotland -45 167 £60,000 - 40
North West -46 156 £55,000 - 103
East of England +82 147 £52,500 -16.00% 100
Wales +7 97 £65,000 +136.36% 22
West Midlands -58 94 £59,556 -0.74% 88
Yorkshire +62 86 £51,528 -7.16% 49
East Midlands +4 81 £43,750 -32.69% 55
North East -4 24 £39,000 +5.31% 22
Northern Ireland +13 12 £65,000 +36.84% 8

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
1 132 (6.13%) Confluence
2 54 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.72%) Apache
4 29 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.25%) SAS
6 7 (0.33%) 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%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 189 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 144 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (3.86%) 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 (0.33%) InDesign
11 7 (0.33%) 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 (0.70%) 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
5 11 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.51%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) 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%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 378 (17.56%) Azure
2 357 (16.58%) AWS
3 186 (8.64%) SaaS
4 175 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
5 173 (8.04%) Power Platform
6 164 (7.62%) GCP
7 37 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (1.39%) Serverless
9 28 (1.30%) GitHub
10 26 (1.21%) Azure API Management
11 24 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.07%) OCI
13 21 (0.98%) 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 (0.70%) IaaS
17 14 (0.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.79%) Firewall
2 40 (1.86%) WAN
3 36 (1.67%) 5G
4 32 (1.49%) SD-WAN
5 31 (1.44%) Network Security
6 29 (1.35%) LAN
7 27 (1.25%) DNS
8 25 (1.16%) TCP/IP
9 24 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (0.88%) Wireless
11 18 (0.84%) Intranet
12 14 (0.65%) Unified Communications
13 13 (0.60%) Internet
14 10 (0.46%) VoIP
15 9 (0.42%) VPN
16 7 (0.33%) 4G
16 7 (0.33%) HTTP
16 7 (0.33%) SMTP
17 5 (0.23%) SSL
18 4 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.69%) Power BI
2 129 (5.99%) Tableau
3 67 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 31 (1.44%) Big Data
5 31 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 27 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.74%) Hadoop
9 16 (0.74%) Metadata
10 15 (0.70%) 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
1 184 (8.55%) Git
2 162 (7.52%) JIRA
3 89 (4.13%) Bitbucket
4 88 (4.09%) Visual Studio
5 59 (2.74%) Sourcetree
6 17 (0.79%) IBM UrbanCode
6 17 (0.79%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.70%) Postman
8 14 (0.65%) LabVIEW
9 13 (0.60%) Axure RP
9 13 (0.60%) Balsamiq
10 12 (0.56%) Moq
11 9 (0.42%) NUnit
12 7 (0.33%) 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 1,430 (66.42%) Social Skills
2 585 (27.17%) Finance
3 482 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (12.87%) Marketing
5 272 (12.63%) Law
6 262 (12.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 231 (10.73%) Retail
8 228 (10.59%) Influencing Skills
9 188 (8.73%) Public Sector
10 172 (7.99%) Manufacturing
11 143 (6.64%) Banking
12 115 (5.34%) Games
13 82 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
14 68 (3.16%) Billing
15 64 (2.97%) Local Government
16 50 (2.32%) Investment Banking
17 46 (2.14%) Aerospace
18 45 (2.09%) Legal
19 40 (1.86%) Telecoms
20 39 (1.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 337 (15.65%) Senior
2 300 (13.93%) Analyst
3 244 (11.33%) Architect
4 185 (8.59%) Developer
5 184 (8.55%) Consultant
6 168 (7.80%) Project Manager
7 134 (6.22%) Lead
8 126 (5.85%) Graduate
9 119 (5.53%) IT Graduate
10 118 (5.48%) Data Analyst
11 116 (5.39%) IT Engineer
12 115 (5.34%) Automation Engineer
12 115 (5.34%) Graduate IT Engineer
13 92 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
14 88 (4.09%) 3D Developer
14 88 (4.09%) Games Developer
14 88 (4.09%) Unity 3D Developer
15 84 (3.90%) Senior Manager
16 83 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
17 74 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.09%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 31 (1.44%) HTML
3 26 (1.21%) CSS
4 23 (1.07%) React
5 22 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 21 (0.98%) .NET
6 21 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
7 20 (0.93%) REST
8 15 (0.70%) EDI
9 14 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (0.65%) OpenAPI
9 14 (0.65%) Swagger
10 13 (0.60%) .NET Core
10 13 (0.60%) Web Services
11 11 (0.51%) pytest
11 11 (0.51%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.46%) JSON
13 9 (0.42%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.42%) LINQ
13 9 (0.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 156 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
2 128 (5.95%) FMCG
3 107 (4.97%) Public Cloud
4 102 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 90 (4.18%) Virtual Reality
6 89 (4.13%) Product Ownership
7 81 (3.76%) PKI
8 76 (3.53%) Onboarding
9 57 (2.65%) NHS
10 55 (2.55%) Cloud Native
11 43 (2.00%) Data Centre
12 41 (1.90%) Housing Association
13 38 (1.76%) Driving Licence
14 37 (1.72%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.49%) IoT
16 31 (1.44%) Reinsurance
17 29 (1.35%) Mobile App
18 26 (1.21%) Robotics
19 23 (1.07%) Taxonomies
20 22 (1.02%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.78%) Windows
2 83 (3.86%) Linux
3 30 (1.39%) Android
3 30 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.16%) 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
1 717 (33.30%) Problem-Solving
2 548 (25.45%) Agile
3 500 (23.22%) Project Management
4 300 (13.93%) Analytics
5 254 (11.80%) Actionable Insight
6 253 (11.75%) Data Analysis
7 246 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 241 (11.19%) Business Development
9 239 (11.10%) Project Delivery
10 229 (10.64%) Scrum
11 224 (10.40%) DevOps
12 218 (10.13%) Coaching
13 210 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 206 (9.57%) Presales
15 200 (9.29%) Roadmaps
16 190 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
17 178 (8.27%) Artificial Intelligence
17 178 (8.27%) Decision-Making
18 177 (8.22%) Mentoring
18 177 (8.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 258 (11.98%) Python
2 245 (11.38%) SQL
3 133 (6.18%) C#
4 60 (2.79%) Java
5 50 (2.32%) R
6 40 (1.86%) JavaScript
7 33 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 25 (1.16%) C
8 25 (1.16%) C++
8 25 (1.16%) MATLAB
9 19 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.79%) Groovy
11 13 (0.60%) VBA
12 11 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.46%) VB
14 8 (0.37%) Bash
15 6 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.14%) ABAP
16 3 (0.14%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.093%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 774 (35.95%) Degree
2 255 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 217 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 121 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 115 (5.34%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 97 (4.51%) DBS Check
7 73 (3.39%) Azure Certification
8 69 (3.20%) ACCA
9 61 (2.83%) AWS Certification
10 58 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 53 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 50 (2.32%) Master's Degree
13 40 (1.86%) PMI Certification
14 35 (1.63%) CISSP
15 29 (1.35%) CISM
16 25 (1.16%) HND
16 25 (1.16%) PMP
17 23 (1.07%) OSCP
18 22 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
19 19 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (4.46%) PMO
2 70 (3.25%) IFRS
3 56 (2.60%) GAAP
4 39 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 39 (1.81%) GDPR
4 39 (1.81%) SLA
5 33 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 19 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (0.88%) NIST
8 18 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.79%) QA
10 16 (0.74%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.70%) CRD IV
11 15 (0.70%) IFRS 9
12 13 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.60%) WCAG
13 12 (0.56%) GRC
14 11 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (2.28%) 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 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.093%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (1.58%) Terraform
2 29 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.30%) Ansible
4 19 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.33%) Graphite
6 7 (0.33%) 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%) 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%) Packer
10 1 (0.046%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.046%) Salt
Vendors
1 533 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 143 (6.64%) Google
3 106 (4.92%) Databricks
4 81 (3.76%) SAP
5 78 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 60 (2.79%) CA
7 58 (2.69%) Oracle
8 42 (1.95%) Adobe
9 31 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.35%) Cisco
11 26 (1.21%) 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