Presales Contracts in the UK excluding London

Presales
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 285 395
Rank change year-on-year -37 +110 +12
Contract jobs citing Presales 21 101 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.49% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.58% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 34
10th Percentile £363 £360 £348
25th Percentile £434 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £616
90th Percentile £647 £789 £724
UK median daily rate £600 £542 £525
% change year-on-year +10.70% +3.24% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year - +48.15% -51.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,573 17,298 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.45% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,212 10,313 14,528
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,056 1,281
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.44
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.26 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East +4 11 £600 -12.73% 283
East of England +16 4 £500 +5.26% 47
Midlands +14 4 £400 -21.95% 81
West Midlands +13 3 £450 -8.86% 43
South West +26 1 £625 +4.17% 57
East Midlands +9 1 £375 -48.28% 34
Scotland +9 1 £445 +97.78% 36
Presales
UK

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (4.76%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.76%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.76%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Asana
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) LAN
1 4 (19.05%) WAN
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.76%) VSAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Network Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.76%) IAM Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) JIRA Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) PMO Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Presales Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Principal Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Service Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Virtual Team
2 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) PMI
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 6 (28.57%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2
6 2 (9.52%) Project Management
6 2 (9.52%) Risk Register
6 2 (9.52%) Service Design
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (9.52%) Time Management
6 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
6 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team Management
7 1 (4.76%) Biometrics
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) CCNA
4 2 (9.52%) CCNP
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.76%) ACCA
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) CCDA
5 1 (4.76%) CCDP
5 1 (4.76%) CISM
5 1 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) PMO
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
3 2 (9.52%) Infoblox
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) Juniper
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) VMware