Presales Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Presales
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Presales skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 142 167
Rank change year-on-year -47 +25 +69
Contract jobs citing Presales 16 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.34% 0.54% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.62% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile - £459 £488
25th Percentile £345 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -13.04% +35.29%
75th Percentile £758 £567 £620
90th Percentile £888 £573 £698
England median daily rate £650 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,217 3,071 4,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.48% 86.82% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,744 2,708
10th Percentile £218 £263 £300
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 150 190
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.12 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £27.44 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -8.53% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.79 £67.57 £62.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Presales job vacancy trend in the North of England

Presales
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presales

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in the North of England

Presales
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presales.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presales

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West -32 8 £875 +76.23% 110
Yorkshire -38 8 £350 -38.60% 87
Presales
England

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (6.25%) SAP CO
2 1 (6.25%) SAP FI
2 1 (6.25%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Firebase
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) WebEx
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Manager
2 2 (12.50%) IT Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 2 (12.50%) IT Programme Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Payroll Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Presales Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) D3.js
1 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
1 1 (6.25%) Flask
1 1 (6.25%) Flutter
1 1 (6.25%) Gradio
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) LangChain
1 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
1 1 (6.25%) Next.js
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) React Native
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) Streamlit
1 1 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) EPoS
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) AI
2 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (18.75%) Project Management
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) API Integration
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Fintech
3 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
3 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
1 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 2 (12.50%) PMP
1 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Dell
1 4 (25.00%) Intel
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) OpenAI
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Aruba
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Ekahau
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Netlify
4 1 (6.25%) SAP