Presales Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Presales
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Presales skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Presales 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.61% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £600 - -
25th Percentile £656 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +75.00%
75th Percentile £755 - £750
90th Percentile £758 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £350 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +75.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 724 394 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.65% 92.49% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 256 436
10th Percentile £313 £263 £281
25th Percentile £419 £350 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -7.75% -7.41%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £644 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 20
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.69
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -80.32%
75th Percentile £28.75 £97.60 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £15.25
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.38 £27.50 £12.53
% change year-on-year -44.09% +119.47% -64.26%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Presales job vacancy trend in Leeds

Presales
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Presales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Presales

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in Leeds

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Payroll Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Data Sharing
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle