Presales Contracts in the South East

Presales
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 130 180
Rank change year-on-year -14 +50 +45
Contract jobs citing Presales 11 61 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 1.10% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.30% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 15
10th Percentile £356 £473 £425
25th Percentile £581 £573 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £569
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +16.34% +8.46%
75th Percentile £619 £789 £624
90th Percentile £661 £794 £713
England median daily rate £600 £534 £513
% change year-on-year +12.36% +4.20% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.74% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,739 3,581
10th Percentile £254 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 437 224
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.20 £22.34
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.55
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the South East

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Presales in the South East

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in the South East

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Presales in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Hampshire +11 6 £600 -17.24% 10
Thames Valley +7 5 £488 - 45
Berkshire 0 3 £450 - 33
Buckinghamshire - 2 £525 - 7
Presales
England

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP CO
1 1 (9.09%) SAP FI
1 1 (9.09%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) LAN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
2 1 (9.09%) VSAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Network Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
4 1 (9.09%) Service Design
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Time Management
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) ACCA
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) CCDA
4 1 (9.09%) CCDP
4 1 (9.09%) CCNA
4 1 (9.09%) CCNP
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) VMware