Presales Contracts in Berkshire

Presales
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 92 107
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Presales 3 32 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 1.61% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.81% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £369 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £544 - £588
90th Percentile £593 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £663 £569
% change year-on-year -9.43% +16.34% +8.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Presales in Berkshire

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Presales in Berkshire

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in Berkshire

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Presales in Berkshire

Presales
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +25 2 £300 - 28
Slough - 1 £600 - 12
Presales
South East

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (33.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Feasibility Study
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ACCA
2 1 (33.33%) CCDA
2 1 (33.33%) CCDP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) SAP