Presales Contract Job Trends in the North West

Presales
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Presales skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 116 135
Rank change year-on-year -41 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing Presales 5 14 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.17% 0.70% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.77% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £456 £469
25th Percentile - £464 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £497 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.85% -3.12% +46.43%
75th Percentile - £519 £553
90th Percentile - £525 £566
England median daily rate £700 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +40.00% -6.37% +10.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,541 1,815 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.01% 90.25% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,611 1,134 1,605
10th Percentile £220 £275 £307
25th Percentile £367 £390 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 115 264
10th Percentile £19.18 £16.95 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.23 £13.67
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.53
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% +36.00% -36.92%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.95 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.85 £79.35 £52.78
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Presales job vacancy trend in the North West

Presales
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Presales
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Manchester - 3 - - 23
Cheshire -21 2 £600 - 4
Presales
England

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) WebEx
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Presales Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Presales Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Design Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Ekahau
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP