Presales Contracts in England

Presales
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Presales skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Presales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 509 534
Rank change year-on-year +166 +25 -128
Contract jobs citing Presales 200 146 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.29% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 71 139
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £485 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £800 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £45.33 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £48.81 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.25 £88.22
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% -37.37% +161.39%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.31 -
90th Percentile - £66.18 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £43.00 £88.22
% change year-on-year +39.53% -51.26% +47.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Presales is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in England

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Presales in England.

Daily rate trend for Presales in England

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in England

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Presales in England.

Hourly rate trend for Presales in England

Presales
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +118 83 £534 -2.91% 172
South East +43 61 £725 +27.32% 74
South West +31 20 £600 +20.00% 32
East of England +17 12 £500 +42.86% 15
Midlands +25 9 £513 +7.89% 37
West Midlands +31 8 £494 +3.95% 26
North of England +32 4 £550 +33.33% 44
North West +23 3 £550 +57.14% 22
Yorkshire +23 1 - - 16
East Midlands +17 1 £725 +18.37% 11
Presales
UK

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (0.50%) Apache
1 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Chatbot
1 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.50%) InVision
5 1 (0.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (5.00%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.50%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.50%) AWS
2 19 (9.50%) Azure
3 11 (5.50%) GCP
3 11 (5.50%) SaaS
4 5 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.00%) PaaS
6 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.50%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (1.50%) Serverless
7 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.50%) GitHub
8 1 (0.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.50%) SD-WAN
2 20 (10.00%) WAN
3 16 (8.00%) PBX
4 15 (7.50%) VoIP
5 11 (5.50%) LAN
6 6 (3.00%) Firewall
6 6 (3.00%) SDH
6 6 (3.00%) Wireless
6 6 (3.00%) WLAN
7 4 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.50%) SSL
8 3 (1.50%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.50%) VPN
9 2 (1.00%) BGP
9 2 (1.00%) DAB
9 2 (1.00%) IPv4
9 2 (1.00%) IPv6
9 2 (1.00%) MPLS
9 2 (1.00%) Network Security
9 2 (1.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (1.50%) Big Data
2 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.00%) Power BI
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Rational Software Modeler
3 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.50%) Finance
2 45 (22.50%) Presentation Skills
3 37 (18.50%) Telecoms
4 27 (13.50%) Public Sector
5 24 (12.00%) Marketing
6 10 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.50%) Electronics
7 7 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.00%) Legal
9 5 (2.50%) Billing
9 5 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.00%) Retail
11 3 (1.50%) Aeronautics
11 3 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.00%) Advertising
12 2 (1.00%) Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 126 (63.00%) Architect
2 51 (25.50%) Solutions Architect
3 29 (14.50%) Consultant
3 29 (14.50%) Network Architect
4 25 (12.50%) Senior
5 24 (12.00%) Lead
6 21 (10.50%) Security Architect
7 17 (8.50%) Lead Architect
8 14 (7.00%) Senior Architect
9 12 (6.00%) Technical Architect
10 11 (5.50%) Technical Consultant
11 9 (4.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.50%) Senior Security Architect
12 8 (4.00%) Genesys Consultant
13 7 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.50%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Presales Consultant
13 7 (3.50%) Presales Solution Architect
13 7 (3.50%) Project Manager
14 6 (3.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.00%) RESTful
2 2 (1.00%) CSS
2 2 (1.00%) Node.js
2 2 (1.00%) Web Services
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.50%) Framer.js
3 1 (0.50%) JDBC
3 1 (0.50%) Kafka
3 1 (0.50%) LDAP
3 1 (0.50%) React
3 1 (0.50%) Redux
3 1 (0.50%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) SAML
3 1 (0.50%) Sass
3 1 (0.50%) Servlets
3 1 (0.50%) SOAP
3 1 (0.50%) WebGL
3 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.00%) IVR
4 7 (3.50%) Augmented Reality
4 7 (3.50%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.50%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.50%) Virtual Reality
5 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.50%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.50%) IoT
8 3 (1.50%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.00%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.00%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.00%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.00%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (13.50%) Agile
1 27 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 23 (11.50%) Security Architecture
3 23 (11.50%) Value Proposition
4 21 (10.50%) CI/CD
5 20 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
6 19 (9.50%) Computer Science
6 19 (9.50%) Network Management
6 19 (9.50%) Project Delivery
6 19 (9.50%) Requirements Management
6 19 (9.50%) SIEM
6 19 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (8.50%) Data Protection
8 15 (7.50%) DevOps
9 14 (7.00%) Fintech
10 12 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (6.00%) Product Management
10 12 (6.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (5.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.50%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.00%) SQL
3 5 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.50%) Python
4 3 (1.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.00%) C#
5 2 (1.00%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) Bash
6 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.50%) DV Cleared
3 27 (13.50%) Degree
3 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.50%) CCNP
5 9 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.00%) CCNA
7 5 (2.50%) CCIE
8 2 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.00%) CCDP
8 2 (1.00%) CCSK
8 2 (1.00%) CCSP
8 2 (1.00%) CEH
8 2 (1.00%) CISA
8 2 (1.00%) CISM
8 2 (1.00%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.50%) SLA
2 4 (2.00%) QA
3 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.00%) NIST
3 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) GRC
4 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (2.00%) vCloud
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.50%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) Cisco
2 16 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.50%) Genesys
4 8 (4.00%) Juniper
5 7 (3.50%) SAP
6 6 (3.00%) Fortinet
6 6 (3.00%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.00%) IBM
8 4 (2.00%) Meraki
8 4 (2.00%) Nokia
9 3 (1.50%) Avaya
9 3 (1.50%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.50%) VMware
10 2 (1.00%) Conga
10 2 (1.00%) Databricks
10 2 (1.00%) F5
10 2 (1.00%) Google
10 2 (1.00%) Riverbed