Presentation Skills Contracts

Presentation Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Presentation Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 110 113
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +21
Contract jobs citing Presentation Skills 839 1,287 2,061
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.95% 2.30% 2.35%
As % of the General category 3.39% 3.92% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 808 1,297
10th Percentile £260 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £443 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £638
90th Percentile £739 £813 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £480 £490
% change year-on-year +9.38% -2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 28 32
10th Percentile £26.98 £12.89 £17.00
25th Percentile £33.32 £24.50 £27.19
Median hourly rate £49.00 £42.68 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +19.12% +30.29%
75th Percentile £64.38 £63.75 £43.19
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +8.89% +11.11% +86.21%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Presentation Skills over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Presentation Skills in the UK

Presentation Skills
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presentation Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -13 713 £525 -2.33% 1,048
London -21 383 £525 -12.50% 430
UK excluding London +11 355 £525 +9.38% 599
Work from Home -6 241 £525 +2.44% 515
South East -12 104 £525 +5.00% 147
South West +57 78 £482 -6.05% 74
North of England +7 50 £570 +18.75% 160
Scotland +21 44 £464 +9.12% 28
Midlands -26 40 £550 +7.84% 128
East of England +6 34 £500 - 82
West Midlands -22 31 £550 +7.84% 76
North West +10 30 £500 +3.90% 101
Yorkshire +9 15 £600 +25.00% 37
East Midlands -5 9 £500 -4.17% 53
Wales +19 6 £538 +2.38% 12
North East +16 5 £897 +49.49% 28

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 22 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.43%) Confluence
3 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.83%) CMS
4 7 (0.83%) MTS
5 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.60%) Apache
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.36%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Appian
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
Applications
1 103 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 84 (10.01%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (6.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (4.77%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (4.05%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (2.03%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.83%) Sketch
8 6 (0.72%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.72%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.48%) SPSS
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.24%) Siemens NX
10 2 (0.24%) Trello
10 2 (0.24%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.12%) InVision
11 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 27 (3.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.55%) Aligne
3 10 (1.19%) Endur
4 8 (0.95%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.83%) EuroRunner
5 7 (0.83%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.83%) SAP EWM
6 6 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.60%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.48%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.48%) Shopify
8 4 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.36%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 89 (10.61%) Azure
2 52 (6.20%) Power Platform
3 42 (5.01%) AWS
4 37 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (2.62%) GitHub
7 17 (2.03%) SaaS
8 14 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (1.55%) Entra ID
9 13 (1.55%) Google Workspace
10 12 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (1.43%) Figma
10 12 (1.43%) Serverless
11 11 (1.31%) IaaS
11 11 (1.31%) OCI
11 11 (1.31%) PaaS
12 10 (1.19%) GCP
13 9 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.10%) Firewall
2 17 (2.03%) VoIP
2 17 (2.03%) WAN
3 14 (1.67%) LAN
3 14 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.55%) PBX
5 12 (1.43%) Ethernet
6 10 (1.19%) DNS
6 10 (1.19%) Network Security
6 10 (1.19%) Radio Access Network
6 10 (1.19%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.19%) Wireless
7 9 (1.07%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (1.07%) VPN
8 6 (0.72%) 3G
8 6 (0.72%) 4G
8 6 (0.72%) RANAP
8 6 (0.72%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.72%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.72%) Power BI
2 20 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.15%) Tableau
4 16 (1.91%) Oracle Database
5 14 (1.67%) Metadata
6 13 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.95%) Big Data
7 8 (0.95%) Data Mining
7 8 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.72%) PowerCenter
10 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.60%) Power Query
10 5 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (0.60%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.48%) MySQL
11 4 (0.48%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (7.27%) JIRA
2 21 (2.50%) Git
3 14 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
5 11 (1.31%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.60%) GitLab
8 4 (0.48%) Appium
8 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.48%) ERwin
8 4 (0.48%) Selenium
8 4 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.24%) Pylint
9 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.24%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 596 (71.04%) Social Skills
2 274 (32.66%) Finance
3 195 (23.24%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (12.04%) Organisational Skills
5 69 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 51 (6.08%) Marketing
7 44 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.89%) Banking
9 40 (4.77%) Telecoms
10 31 (3.69%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (2.50%) German Language
13 20 (2.38%) Law
13 20 (2.38%) Legal
13 20 (2.38%) Retail
14 18 (2.15%) Military
15 13 (1.55%) Automotive
16 12 (1.43%) Local Government
17 11 (1.31%) Financial Institution
18 9 (1.07%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 131 (15.61%) Analyst
2 106 (12.63%) Architect
3 93 (11.08%) Consultant
4 80 (9.54%) Senior
5 71 (8.46%) Lead
5 71 (8.46%) Project Manager
6 66 (7.87%) Business Analyst
7 48 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (3.93%) Developer
9 27 (3.22%) Data Analyst
9 27 (3.22%) Support Engineer
10 24 (2.86%) Project Leader
11 19 (2.26%) Designer
11 19 (2.26%) Windows Engineer
12 18 (2.15%) Desktop Engineer
12 18 (2.15%) Desktop Support
12 18 (2.15%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 17 (2.03%) Windows Support Engineer
14 14 (1.67%) Senior Manager
15 13 (1.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.34%) Web Services
2 21 (2.50%) HTML
3 19 (2.26%) CSS
4 17 (2.03%) REST
5 16 (1.91%) Node.js
6 15 (1.79%) SOAP
7 13 (1.55%) React
8 12 (1.43%) .NET
9 7 (0.83%) .NET Core
9 7 (0.83%) jQuery
9 7 (0.83%) Kafka
9 7 (0.83%) Middleware
9 7 (0.83%) YAML
10 6 (0.72%) PySpark
10 6 (0.72%) pytest
10 6 (0.72%) RESTful
11 5 (0.60%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.60%) NumPy
11 5 (0.60%) Pandas
12 4 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 42 (5.01%) Renewable Energy
2 41 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 38 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.17%) Solar Panel
5 22 (2.62%) Virtual Team
6 20 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.67%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.19%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.07%) Derivative
10 9 (1.07%) FMCG
10 9 (1.07%) PMI
10 9 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.83%) Digital Media
12 7 (0.83%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.83%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.51%) Windows
2 36 (4.29%) Linux
3 15 (1.79%) Unix
4 10 (1.19%) Windows 10
4 10 (1.19%) Windows 7
5 6 (0.72%) AIX
6 4 (0.48%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Vista
7 3 (0.36%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) OS/390
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (26.70%) Agile
2 222 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
3 177 (21.10%) Project Management
4 169 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 145 (17.28%) Decision-Making
6 97 (11.56%) Time Management
7 85 (10.13%) Project Delivery
8 77 (9.18%) PRINCE2
9 76 (9.06%) Workshop Facilitation
10 72 (8.58%) Analytics
11 71 (8.46%) Roadmaps
12 66 (7.87%) Migration
13 63 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
14 61 (7.27%) DevOps
15 60 (7.15%) Change Management
16 59 (7.03%) Data Management
17 56 (6.67%) Business Analysis
18 54 (6.44%) ITIL
19 51 (6.08%) Process Improvement
20 50 (5.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (8.70%) SQL
2 40 (4.77%) Python
3 30 (3.58%) JavaScript
4 22 (2.62%) C#
5 20 (2.38%) C++
5 20 (2.38%) Java
6 15 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.19%) PL/SQL
8 8 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.72%) ABAP
9 6 (0.72%) R
10 5 (0.60%) Bicep
11 3 (0.36%) C
11 3 (0.36%) VBA
11 3 (0.36%) XPath
12 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.24%) Rust
12 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.24%) VB
12 2 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 152 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 150 (17.88%) Degree
3 88 (10.49%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.86%) APMP
7 23 (2.74%) Master's Degree
8 17 (2.03%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.91%) CISM
9 16 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 15 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
11 14 (1.67%) PMP
12 12 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.31%) CCNP
14 10 (1.19%) CISSP
14 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (1.07%) CISA
16 8 (0.95%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.32%) PMO
2 37 (4.41%) QA
3 27 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.55%) SLA
6 9 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.83%) GDPR
8 7 (0.83%) NIST
9 6 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.48%) IFRS
10 4 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) GAMP
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 28 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.07%) Docker
4 7 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.48%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) HDFS
7 2 (0.24%) NFS
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Snort
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (1.91%) Terraform
2 10 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.95%) VxRail
4 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.83%) Nessus
4 7 (0.83%) SCCM
5 6 (0.72%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (0.48%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.24%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.12%) Autotask
8 1 (0.12%) Avamar
8 1 (0.12%) Grafana
8 1 (0.12%) Iperf
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.12%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 173 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 80 (9.54%) SAP
3 47 (5.60%) Oracle
4 26 (3.10%) Cisco
5 23 (2.74%) VMware
6 20 (2.38%) Dell
6 20 (2.38%) Google
6 20 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.26%) Adobe
7 19 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.43%) Ariba
9 11 (1.31%) Juniper
10 9 (1.07%) Palo Alto
11 8 (0.95%) Citrix
11 8 (0.95%) Databricks
11 8 (0.95%) Informatica
12 6 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
12 6 (0.72%) Empirix
12 6 (0.72%) F5
12 6 (0.72%) NetScout