Presales Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Presales
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Presales skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 56 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Presales 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.11% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £363 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £725
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -48.28% -
75th Percentile £575 £388 £738
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £663 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +32.50% -9.09% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 748 517 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.86% 86.89% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 322 427
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £355 £329 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -6.18% -2.58%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £572
90th Percentile £625 £636 £679
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 47
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.48 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +4.58% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.00 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Presales relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Presales job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Presales
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Presales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Presales

Presales
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Presales.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Presales

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Lincolnshire - 1 £550 - 14
Presales
England

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft