Presales Contracts in the Thames Valley

Presales
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 112 141
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 +9
Contract jobs citing Presales 5 33 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 1.23% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.41% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £319 - £461
25th Percentile £347 - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.38%
75th Percentile £644 - £553
90th Percentile £679 - £574
South East median daily rate £600 £663 £569
% change year-on-year -9.43% +16.34% +8.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the Thames Valley

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Presales in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Presales in the Thames Valley

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in the Thames Valley

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Presales in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Presales in the Thames Valley

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +2 3 £450 - 53
Buckinghamshire - 2 £525 - 26
Presales
South East

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ACCA
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) CCDA
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware