Presales Contracts in the Midlands

Presales
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 122 138
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 +53
Contract jobs citing Presales 5 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.47% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £305 £460 £516
25th Percentile £350 £480 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -16.00% +32.43%
75th Percentile £488 £548 £619
90th Percentile £496 £567 £739
England median daily rate £575 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +5.99% -1.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,178 2,145 2,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.75% 81.04% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,471 1,875
10th Percentile £219 £275 £256
25th Percentile £355 £363 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £600
90th Percentile £644 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 101 81
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.04 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% -32.73% +46.28%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the Midlands

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Presales in the Midlands

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in the Midlands

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Presales in the Midlands

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
West Midlands -13 3 £400 -22.21% 48
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 16
Presales
England

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (20.00%) InDesign
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (20.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Presales Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Flash
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blog
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Avaya
1 1 (20.00%) Facebook
1 1 (20.00%) Genesys
1 1 (20.00%) HubSpot
1 1 (20.00%) Instagram
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Twitter
1 1 (20.00%) YouTube