Presales Contracts in the North of England

Presales
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 163 191
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 +53
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Presales 4 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.100% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £510 £340
25th Percentile £863 £526 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £875 £551 £453
Median % change year-on-year +58.80% +21.77% +6.47%
75th Percentile £888 £577 £527
90th Percentile - £592 £563
England median daily rate £588 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +8.29% -5.65% +4.55%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,568 3,472 4,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.13% 83.64% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,286 2,082 3,091
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 237 199
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.13 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% -1.82% +41.95%
75th Percentile £44.26 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.85 £58.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Presales 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
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
DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -5 3 £875 +45.35% 67
Yorkshire -13 1 - - 27
Presales
England

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Firebase
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (25.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Manager
1 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (50.00%) IT Programme Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) D3.js
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Flask
1 1 (25.00%) Flutter
1 1 (25.00%) Gradio
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) React Native
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Streamlit
1 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) EPoS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Co-Creation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (50.00%) PMP
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Netlify
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI