Presales Contracts in the UK excluding London

Presales
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Presales skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Presales over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 374 394
Rank change year-on-year +64 +20 -70
Contract jobs citing Presales 91 56 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 32 73
10th Percentile £393 £333 £364
25th Percentile £500 £434 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% -2.56%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £575
90th Percentile £789 £760 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £80.82
25th Percentile - £12.75 £82.06
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £84.11
Median % change year-on-year - -83.95% +7.83%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £86.17
90th Percentile - - £87.40
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £40.50 £84.11
% change year-on-year +48.15% -51.85% +12.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Presales falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +28 42 £585 -4.49% 65
South West +20 20 £600 +4.35% 31
Midlands +17 12 £513 +2.50% 58
West Midlands +21 11 £494 +3.95% 43
East of England +11 9 £400 - 26
North of England +16 6 £550 +57.14% 64
Yorkshire +16 3 £500 +5.26% 29
North West +12 3 £576 +64.57% 30
Northern Ireland -1 3 - - 2
Wales - 2 - - 4
East Midlands +4 1 £725 +18.37% 15
Presales
UK

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (3.30%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (3.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.10%) SAP EHS
3 1 (1.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.79%) AWS
2 7 (7.69%) SaaS
3 4 (4.40%) Azure
3 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (4.40%) PaaS
3 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.30%) OCI
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) IaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.98%) PBX
2 19 (20.88%) VoIP
3 13 (14.29%) WAN
4 9 (9.89%) SD-WAN
5 6 (6.59%) LAN
5 6 (6.59%) SDH
6 4 (4.40%) Firewall
7 3 (3.30%) WLAN
8 2 (2.20%) IP Telephony
8 2 (2.20%) MPLS
8 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.20%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.10%) DMZ
9 1 (1.10%) DNS
9 1 (1.10%) VPLS
9 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.20%) Power BI
1 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Rational DOORS
General
1 27 (29.67%) Telecoms
2 22 (24.18%) Presentation Skills
3 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.19%) Finance
5 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.69%) Marketing
7 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (3.30%) Aeronautics
8 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.30%) Electronics
8 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.30%) Legal
9 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (72.53%) Architect
2 27 (29.67%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (19.78%) Network Architect
4 15 (16.48%) Consultant
5 14 (15.38%) Security Architect
6 10 (10.99%) Senior
7 8 (8.79%) Lead
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Architect
8 7 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
9 6 (6.59%) Presales Consultant
10 5 (5.49%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (5.49%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Cloud Consultant
11 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Lead Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Senior Security Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Technical Presales Consultant
12 3 (3.30%) Senior Network Architect
12 3 (3.30%) Senior Oracle Consultant
12 3 (3.30%) Senior Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.20%) .NET
2 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (2.20%) CSS
2 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.20%) HTML
2 2 (2.20%) JSON
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
2 2 (2.20%) WCF
2 2 (2.20%) XML
3 1 (1.10%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.10%) Node.js
3 1 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.40%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.40%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.30%) Solar Power
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) IVR
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (17.58%) Data Protection
1 16 (17.58%) Roadmaps
2 15 (16.48%) Security Architecture
3 13 (14.29%) Value Proposition
4 11 (12.09%) Network Management
4 11 (12.09%) Requirements Management
4 11 (12.09%) SIEM
5 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (8.79%) Agile
6 8 (8.79%) Risk Management
7 7 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (7.69%) ITIL
8 6 (6.59%) TOGAF
9 5 (5.49%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (5.49%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.49%) Product Management
9 5 (5.49%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (4.40%) ArchiMate
10 4 (4.40%) Coaching
10 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.59%) SQL
2 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.20%) C#
4 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 61 (67.03%) Security Cleared
2 30 (32.97%) DV Cleared
3 14 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) CCSK
6 1 (1.10%) CCSP
6 1 (1.10%) CEH
6 1 (1.10%) CISA
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.10%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) SLA
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Ansible
1 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.99%) Cisco
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) IBM
2 4 (4.40%) Juniper
2 4 (4.40%) Nokia
3 3 (3.30%) Fortinet
3 3 (3.30%) Hyperion
3 3 (3.30%) JD Edwards
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle
3 3 (3.30%) Palo Alto
3 3 (3.30%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (2.20%) Mitel
4 2 (2.20%) VMware
5 1 (1.10%) Avaya
5 1 (1.10%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.10%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.10%) Genesys
5 1 (1.10%) Google
5 1 (1.10%) Radianz
5 1 (1.10%) SAP