Presentation Skills Job Trends in the West Midlands

Presentation Skills
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 73 100
Rank change year-on-year -64 +27 +5
Permanent jobs citing Presentation Skills 41 158 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.78% 3.81% 2.15%
As % of the General category 1.30% 5.96% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23 29 72
10th Percentile £51,750 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £32,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £50,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -6.10% -3.18%
75th Percentile £84,375 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £71,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -17.27%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,155 2,649 2,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 59.69% 63.95% 60.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 1,159 1,899
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,291
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,943 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,680 £75,818
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -4.00%

Presentation Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Presentation Skills job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Presentation Skills
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Presentation Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Presentation Skills in the West Midlands

Presentation Skills
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presentation Skills within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +7 19 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Solihull +2 8 £100,000 +60.00% 1
Warwickshire -20 7 £62,500 +4.17% 6
Coventry -5 3 - - 2
Staffordshire -25 1 £62,500 +15.74% 3
Worcestershire - 1 £68,000 - 2
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 4 (9.76%) Confluence
1 4 (9.76%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.88%) Trello
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
3 6 (14.63%) AWS KMS
3 6 (14.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.76%) Route 53
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (4.88%) Asana
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Firewall
2 6 (14.63%) DNS
2 6 (14.63%) FTP
2 6 (14.63%) HTTP
2 6 (14.63%) SMTP
2 6 (14.63%) SSH
3 4 (9.76%) IMAP
3 4 (9.76%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (4.88%) LAN
4 2 (4.88%) WAN
4 2 (4.88%) Wireless
5 1 (2.44%) Internet
5 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.44%) NAS
5 1 (2.44%) Network Security
5 1 (2.44%) SAN
5 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.44%) VPN
5 1 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
1 6 (14.63%) Vagrant
2 4 (9.76%) Git
3 2 (4.88%) Subversion
General
1 35 (85.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (36.59%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Public Sector
4 8 (19.51%) Finance
5 5 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (9.76%) Marketing
7 3 (7.32%) Law
7 3 (7.32%) Local Government
7 3 (7.32%) Military
8 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.44%) Advertising
9 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.44%) Games
9 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Head of Security
2 6 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Architect
4 4 (9.76%) Head of Compliance
4 4 (9.76%) Head of Information
4 4 (9.76%) Head of Information Security
4 4 (9.76%) Head of IT
4 4 (9.76%) Head of IT Security
5 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Regional Sales Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Sales Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Sales Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Solutions Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Account Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Business Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Credit Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
1 4 (9.76%) Replication
1 4 (9.76%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
1 6 (14.63%) VMS
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) Decision-Making
1 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (21.95%) Agile
2 9 (21.95%) Strategic Thinking
3 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (19.51%) DevOps
4 7 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (17.07%) Project Management
5 6 (14.63%) Business Development
5 6 (14.63%) Cloud Security
5 6 (14.63%) Configuration Management
6 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) Information Security
6 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.76%) Customer Insight
7 4 (9.76%) Information Governance
7 4 (9.76%) Information Security Management
7 4 (9.76%) Patch Management
7 4 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (9.76%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) Python
2 7 (17.07%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) Groovy
4 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) C#
5 2 (4.88%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) Perl
5 2 (4.88%) R
5 2 (4.88%) Ruby
6 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Degree
2 6 (14.63%) AWS Certification
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) CCNA
6 1 (2.44%) CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.44%) HNC
6 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.44%) PMP
6 1 (2.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (19.51%) NIST
2 4 (9.76%) COBIT
2 4 (9.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 3 (7.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (4.88%) QA
5 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) DFS Replication
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
1 4 (9.76%) Dovecot
1 4 (9.76%) Postfix
1 4 (9.76%) Squid
2 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 4 (9.76%) Grafana
2 4 (9.76%) Nessus
2 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.76%) Proxmox
3 2 (4.88%) Nagios
4 1 (2.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.76%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.88%) Ariba
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco
4 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Anaplan
5 1 (2.44%) Aruba
5 1 (2.44%) Dell
5 1 (2.44%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.44%) Genesys
5 1 (2.44%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) Verint
5 1 (2.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) Zscaler