Presales Contracts in the South West

Presales
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 133 166
Rank change year-on-year +24 +33 +6
Contract jobs citing Presales 1 20 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.059% 0.63% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.76% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £613 £575 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile - £636 £620
England median daily rate £600 £542 £513
% change year-on-year +10.70% +5.76% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the South West

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Presales in the South West

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Presales in the South West

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Wiltshire +32 1 £625 - 4
Presales
England

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft