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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 128 178
Rank change year-on-year +2 +50 +7
Permanent jobs citing Presentation Skills 2,259 2,728 3,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.26% 2.75% 2.38%
As % of the General category 3.79% 4.03% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 974 1,849
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,750 £35,967
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,433 £83,750 £78,003
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £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 £81,250 £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 18 May 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 18 May 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 1,848 £52,500 -19.23% 1,151
UK excluding London -10 1,438 £50,000 -9.09% 800
Work from Home +27 860 £57,500 -10.20% 534
London +19 649 £61,300 -18.27% 414
South West +69 293 £45,000 +2.28% 96
North of England -33 271 £51,528 -6.31% 207
South East -50 239 £50,000 -13.04% 194
Midlands -44 198 £52,500 -12.50% 168
Scotland -59 172 £65,000 +14.57% 43
North West -64 161 £50,000 -9.09% 114
East of England +97 154 £52,500 -16.00% 95
Wales -2 99 £65,000 +136.36% 32
East Midlands +13 96 £49,000 -21.60% 69
West Midlands -66 94 £59,556 -0.74% 99
Yorkshire +50 85 £51,528 -8.39% 76
North East -13 25 £39,000 +5.31% 23
Northern Ireland -3 14 £65,000 +36.84% 9

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
1 130 (5.75%) Confluence
2 54 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.51%) Apache
4 27 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 24 (1.06%) SAS
7 7 (0.31%) MS Project Server
8 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.22%) Appian
9 5 (0.22%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) IIS
10 4 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.089%) Jupyter
Applications
1 191 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
5 43 (1.90%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.89%) AutoCAD
7 13 (0.58%) Adobe XD
8 12 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
9 10 (0.44%) Sketch
10 9 (0.40%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.31%) InDesign
11 7 (0.31%) InVision
12 6 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.22%) Simulink
14 3 (0.13%) SketchUp
15 2 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.089%) Maya
15 2 (0.089%) MotionBuilder
15 2 (0.089%) SPSS
15 2 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 13 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
1 13 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
2 12 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
3 11 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.49%) SAP HR
4 10 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 7 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.22%) Odoo
9 4 (0.18%) Endur
10 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.13%) Shopify
11 2 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 441 (19.52%) AWS
2 402 (17.80%) Azure
3 185 (8.19%) SaaS
4 175 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
5 166 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 165 (7.30%) GCP
7 34 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (1.37%) GitHub
9 26 (1.15%) Serverless
10 25 (1.11%) Azure API Management
10 25 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.06%) OCI
12 22 (0.97%) Entra ID
13 21 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (0.75%) Asana
14 17 (0.75%) OpenShift
14 17 (0.75%) Snowflake
15 15 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (0.66%) IaaS
16 14 (0.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.57%) Firewall
2 38 (1.68%) WAN
3 37 (1.64%) 5G
4 32 (1.42%) SD-WAN
5 31 (1.37%) Network Security
6 28 (1.24%) DNS
7 26 (1.15%) LAN
8 24 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 23 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.80%) Intranet
11 15 (0.66%) Wireless
12 13 (0.58%) Internet
12 13 (0.58%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.44%) VoIP
13 10 (0.44%) VPN
14 8 (0.35%) HTTP
14 8 (0.35%) SMTP
15 7 (0.31%) 4G
16 6 (0.27%) SSL
17 4 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (8.37%) Tableau
2 136 (6.02%) Power BI
3 87 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (2.35%) Data Lake
5 50 (2.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 46 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.33%) Big Data
8 20 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (0.62%) Hadoop
9 14 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.58%) Data Vault
10 13 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.53%) Data Mining
12 10 (0.44%) Metadata
12 10 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (0.40%) Spotfire
14 8 (0.35%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 237 (10.49%) Git
2 157 (6.95%) JIRA
3 80 (3.54%) Bitbucket
4 79 (3.50%) Visual Studio
5 59 (2.61%) Sourcetree
6 21 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 17 (0.75%) IBM UrbanCode
8 13 (0.58%) Axure RP
8 13 (0.58%) Balsamiq
9 12 (0.53%) Moq
9 12 (0.53%) Postman
10 10 (0.44%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.40%) NUnit
12 8 (0.35%) GitLab
13 7 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
13 7 (0.31%) RStudio
14 4 (0.18%) AdminStudio
14 4 (0.18%) InstallShield
14 4 (0.18%) MSI
15 2 (0.089%) JMeter
General
1 1,533 (67.86%) Social Skills
2 624 (27.62%) Finance
3 552 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
4 294 (13.01%) Retail
5 283 (12.53%) Law
6 275 (12.17%) Marketing
7 269 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 226 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
9 182 (8.06%) Public Sector
10 171 (7.57%) Manufacturing
11 152 (6.73%) Banking
12 106 (4.69%) Games
13 84 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
14 64 (2.83%) Billing
15 61 (2.70%) Local Government
16 56 (2.48%) Investment Banking
17 46 (2.04%) Legal
18 42 (1.86%) Aerospace
19 41 (1.81%) Telecoms
20 40 (1.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 431 (19.08%) Senior
2 360 (15.94%) Analyst
3 247 (10.93%) Architect
4 207 (9.16%) Consultant
5 174 (7.70%) Data Analyst
6 172 (7.61%) Developer
7 167 (7.39%) Project Manager
8 141 (6.24%) Lead
9 138 (6.11%) Senior Analyst
10 122 (5.40%) Graduate
11 119 (5.27%) IT Graduate
12 116 (5.14%) IT Engineer
13 115 (5.09%) Automation Engineer
13 115 (5.09%) Graduate IT Engineer
14 99 (4.38%) Senior Data Analyst
15 93 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
16 86 (3.81%) Senior Manager
17 79 (3.50%) 3D Developer
17 79 (3.50%) Games Developer
17 79 (3.50%) Unity 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (3.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 32 (1.42%) HTML
3 27 (1.20%) CSS
4 23 (1.02%) React
5 22 (0.97%) .NET
5 22 (0.97%) AngularJS
6 21 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
7 20 (0.89%) REST
8 14 (0.62%) ASP.NET Web API
8 14 (0.62%) EDI
9 13 (0.58%) .NET Core
9 13 (0.58%) Web Services
10 11 (0.49%) OpenAPI
10 11 (0.49%) pytest
10 11 (0.49%) Swagger
11 10 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (0.44%) Spring
11 10 (0.44%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.40%) .NET Framework
12 9 (0.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 150 (6.64%) Self-Motivation
2 129 (5.71%) FMCG
3 108 (4.78%) Public Cloud
4 97 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 89 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 81 (3.59%) PKI
6 81 (3.59%) Virtual Reality
7 77 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 56 (2.48%) Cloud Native
9 55 (2.43%) NHS
10 50 (2.21%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.81%) Data Centre
12 38 (1.68%) Driving Licence
12 38 (1.68%) Housing Association
13 35 (1.55%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.46%) IoT
15 27 (1.20%) Reinsurance
16 25 (1.11%) Data Structures
16 25 (1.11%) Robotics
17 23 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.43%) Windows
2 86 (3.81%) Linux
3 30 (1.33%) Android
3 30 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 29 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.93%) Unix
6 8 (0.35%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.18%) CentOS
9 3 (0.13%) Windows Vista
10 2 (0.089%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.044%) VMS
11 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (35.86%) Problem-Solving
2 543 (24.04%) Agile
3 519 (22.97%) Project Management
4 374 (16.56%) Analytics
5 324 (14.34%) Data Analysis
6 322 (14.25%) Actionable Insight
7 253 (11.20%) Project Delivery
8 248 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 237 (10.49%) Presales
9 237 (10.49%) Visualisation
10 233 (10.31%) Business Development
11 225 (9.96%) Roadmaps
12 224 (9.92%) DevOps
12 224 (9.92%) Mathematics
13 218 (9.65%) Scrum
14 217 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 209 (9.25%) Coaching
16 199 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence
17 193 (8.54%) Mentoring
18 192 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 315 (13.94%) Python
2 294 (13.01%) SQL
3 119 (5.27%) C#
4 60 (2.66%) Java
5 47 (2.08%) R
6 43 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 36 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 28 (1.24%) C++
9 27 (1.20%) C
10 21 (0.93%) MATLAB
11 19 (0.84%) TypeScript
12 17 (0.75%) Groovy
13 12 (0.53%) VBA
14 10 (0.44%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.40%) VB
16 8 (0.35%) Bash
17 7 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.13%) ABAP
18 3 (0.13%) Shell Script
19 2 (0.089%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 861 (38.11%) Degree
2 238 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 202 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 159 (7.04%) DBS Check
5 115 (5.09%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 110 (4.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 98 (4.34%) Azure Certification
8 85 (3.76%) AWS Certification
9 68 (3.01%) ACCA
10 57 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 53 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 53 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (1.73%) PMI Certification
13 35 (1.55%) CISSP
14 28 (1.24%) CISM
15 24 (1.06%) HNC
15 24 (1.06%) PMP
16 21 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (0.93%) HND
17 19 (0.84%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.34%) PMO
2 63 (2.79%) IFRS
3 52 (2.30%) GAAP
4 42 (1.86%) GDPR
4 42 (1.86%) SLA
5 34 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.33%) Data Quality
8 24 (1.06%) QA
9 20 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 19 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.84%) NIST
11 18 (0.80%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.71%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.58%) GRC
14 13 (0.58%) WCAG
15 12 (0.53%) CRD IV
15 12 (0.53%) IFRS 9
15 12 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.71%) Docker
3 15 (0.66%) Firmware
4 12 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.089%) NFS
8 2 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (1.68%) Terraform
2 30 (1.33%) Ansible
2 30 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.84%) Progress Chef
4 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.35%) Graphite
6 7 (0.31%) SCCM
7 4 (0.18%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.18%) WSUS
8 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.13%) CASB
8 3 (0.13%) Nagios
8 3 (0.13%) Puppet
8 3 (0.13%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.089%) Grafana
9 2 (0.089%) Nmap
10 1 (0.044%) Autotask
10 1 (0.044%) Control-M
10 1 (0.044%) Packer
10 1 (0.044%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 522 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 165 (7.30%) Databricks
3 140 (6.20%) Google
4 82 (3.63%) Salesforce
4 82 (3.63%) SAP
5 59 (2.61%) Oracle
6 56 (2.48%) CA
7 42 (1.86%) Adobe
8 33 (1.46%) ServiceNow
9 25 (1.11%) Cisco
9 25 (1.11%) IBM
10 24 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 14 (0.62%) Dell
11 14 (0.62%) Workday
12 13 (0.58%) VMware
13 12 (0.53%) Juniper
13 12 (0.53%) Northgate
14 11 (0.49%) Meraki
15 10 (0.44%) Splunk
16 9 (0.40%) Civica