Presales Contracts with Work from Home Options

Presales
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 363 419
Rank change year-on-year +75 +56 -117
Contract jobs citing Presales 59 104 209
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.46% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 45 135
10th Percentile £425 £413 £401
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £606
90th Percentile £630 £783 £723
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £506
% change year-on-year +1.71% +3.70% +1.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Presales
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Presales trend for jobs with a WFH option

Presales
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Presales.

Presales daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Presales over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Presales daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Presales
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Presales.

Presales hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Loan IQ
2 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) AWS
2 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (6.78%) GCP
3 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.08%) Azure
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) WAN
2 5 (8.47%) Kerberos
2 5 (8.47%) SD-WAN
2 5 (8.47%) Wireless
3 4 (6.78%) LAN
3 4 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.08%) WLAN
5 2 (3.39%) MPLS
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.69%) Network Security
6 1 (1.69%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (52.54%) Social Skills
2 28 (47.46%) Finance
3 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
4 10 (16.95%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (13.56%) Telecoms
6 5 (8.47%) Marketing
7 4 (6.78%) Financial Institution
7 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Front Office
8 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Architect
2 21 (35.59%) Consultant
3 14 (23.73%) Lead
4 13 (22.03%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (15.25%) Lead Architect
6 7 (11.86%) Presales Solution Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Presales Consultant
8 5 (8.47%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (6.78%) Genesys Consultant
9 4 (6.78%) Project Manager
9 4 (6.78%) Senior
10 3 (5.08%) Associate Consultant
10 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (5.08%) Security Architect
11 2 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
11 2 (3.39%) Software Manager
11 2 (3.39%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) OAuth
1 5 (8.47%) OpenID
1 5 (8.47%) SAML
2 4 (6.78%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) JSON
3 1 (1.69%) REST
3 1 (1.69%) Servlets
3 1 (1.69%) SOAP
3 1 (1.69%) Spring
3 1 (1.69%) Spring Security
3 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (6.78%) IVR
3 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.39%) Blog
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Agile
2 14 (23.73%) CI/CD
3 13 (22.03%) Project Delivery
3 13 (22.03%) Roadmaps
4 11 (18.64%) DevOps
5 8 (13.56%) Business Case
5 8 (13.56%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (13.56%) Fintech
5 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (11.86%) Strategic Thinking
7 6 (10.17%) Change Management
7 6 (10.17%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (8.47%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (8.47%) Identity Management
8 5 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.47%) Product Management
8 5 (8.47%) Quality Management
9 4 (6.78%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (6.78%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.86%) SQL
2 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.69%) Java
3 1 (1.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) CCNP
4 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.08%) CCIE
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) CCNA
7 1 (1.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) PingFederate
2 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.47%) Ping Identity
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco
2 4 (6.78%) Genesys
3 2 (3.39%) Avaya
3 2 (3.39%) Conga
3 2 (3.39%) DocuSign
3 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.39%) SAP
3 2 (3.39%) VMware
4 1 (1.69%) Aruba
4 1 (1.69%) Autodesk
4 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.69%) Computacenter
4 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.69%) HP
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.69%) Zscaler