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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 140 153
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Presales 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.11% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.13% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £414 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £452 - -
90th Percentile £462 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.20% +11.36%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,736 2,301 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.81% 83.22% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,470 2,050
10th Percentile £213 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.51% +2.57%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 251 256
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.51 £39.57 £44.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +19.58%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £76.37
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.58
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +53.76%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Presales
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Presales
DemandTrendContract 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 22 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
Wiltshire +21 3 £431 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (33.33%) IT Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team Management
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared