Presales Contracts

Presales
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Presales skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Presales over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 507 517
Rank change year-on-year +135 +10 -115
Contract jobs citing Presales 220 187 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.36% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 88 208
10th Percentile £400 £411 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +3.70% +1.25%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £794 £776 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £488 £463
% change year-on-year +23.08% +5.41% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £18.10 £80.82
25th Percentile £57.50 £26.13 £82.06
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.50 £84.11
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -51.85% +40.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £55.13 £86.17
90th Percentile - £63.30 £87.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.50 £84.11
% change year-on-year - -83.95% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Presales is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presales over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Presales in the UK

Presales
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
England +148 189 £550 +7.32% 448
UK excluding London +111 101 £600 +23.08% 265
London +99 81 £534 -2.91% 179
Work from Home +81 59 £534 -2.91% 255
South East +39 55 £688 +20.73% 78
South West +32 20 £600 +20.00% 31
East of England +11 10 £488 +21.88% 13
Midlands +31 9 £513 +7.89% 52
West Midlands +25 8 £494 +3.95% 33
North of England +25 4 £550 +33.33% 55
North West +23 3 £550 +57.14% 29
Wales - 2 - - 5
Scotland +44 1 £225 - 27
Yorkshire +26 1 - - 20
East Midlands +18 1 £725 +18.37% 19

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.73%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.36%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.45%) InVision
6 1 (0.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Loan IQ
2 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.45%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.91%) Azure
2 21 (9.55%) AWS
3 12 (5.45%) SaaS
4 10 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (4.09%) GCP
6 6 (2.73%) PaaS
7 5 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.27%) Serverless
8 4 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.36%) IaaS
9 3 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.36%) WAN
2 20 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 18 (8.18%) PBX
4 17 (7.73%) VoIP
5 14 (6.36%) LAN
6 9 (4.09%) WLAN
7 8 (3.64%) Wireless
8 6 (2.73%) SDH
9 5 (2.27%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.82%) Firewall
10 4 (1.82%) MPLS
10 4 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.36%) SSL
11 3 (1.36%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.91%) Network Security
12 2 (0.91%) VPN
13 1 (0.45%) DMZ
13 1 (0.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.73%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.91%) Big Data
3 2 (0.91%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) MySQL
4 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Rational Software Modeler
3 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.91%) Finance
2 46 (20.91%) Presentation Skills
3 41 (18.64%) Telecoms
4 28 (12.73%) Marketing
4 28 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.18%) Electronics
7 7 (3.18%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.73%) Legal
9 5 (2.27%) Billing
9 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.36%) Aeronautics
11 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.36%) German Language
11 3 (1.36%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.36%) Retail
12 2 (0.91%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 124 (56.36%) Architect
2 55 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 40 (18.18%) Consultant
4 27 (12.27%) Senior
5 24 (10.91%) Security Architect
6 23 (10.45%) Lead
6 23 (10.45%) Network Architect
7 15 (6.82%) Lead Architect
8 14 (6.36%) Senior Architect
9 12 (5.45%) Project Manager
10 11 (5.00%) Presales Consultant
10 11 (5.00%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.55%) Presales Solution Architect
12 9 (4.09%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.09%) Senior Security Architect
12 9 (4.09%) Technical Consultant
13 8 (3.64%) Azure Architect
13 8 (3.64%) Network Engineer
14 7 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (3.18%) Genesys Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.64%) RESTful
2 5 (2.27%) OAuth
2 5 (2.27%) OpenID
2 5 (2.27%) SAML
3 2 (0.91%) CSS
3 2 (0.91%) Node.js
3 2 (0.91%) Web Services
4 1 (0.45%) .NET
4 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.45%) Framer.js
4 1 (0.45%) JDBC
4 1 (0.45%) jQuery
4 1 (0.45%) JSON
4 1 (0.45%) LDAP
4 1 (0.45%) Servlets
4 1 (0.45%) SOAP
4 1 (0.45%) Spring
4 1 (0.45%) Spring Security
4 1 (0.45%) WebGL
4 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.73%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.18%) Augmented Reality
3 7 (3.18%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.18%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.18%) Virtual Reality
4 6 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.73%) IVR
4 6 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.27%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.36%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.36%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.36%) IoT
7 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.36%) Solar Power
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (15.45%) Agile
2 29 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (12.73%) Roadmaps
4 26 (11.82%) Value Proposition
5 25 (11.36%) Project Delivery
6 23 (10.45%) Security Architecture
6 23 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 18 (8.18%) Customer Requirements
8 18 (8.18%) Data Protection
9 17 (7.73%) DevOps
10 15 (6.82%) Product Management
11 14 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (6.36%) Computer Science
11 14 (6.36%) Network Management
11 14 (6.36%) Requirements Management
11 14 (6.36%) SIEM
12 12 (5.45%) Project Management
12 12 (5.45%) Risk Management
13 11 (5.00%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.55%) SQL
2 8 (3.64%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.36%) Python
4 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.91%) C#
6 1 (0.45%) Bash
6 1 (0.45%) Bicep
6 1 (0.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 82 (37.27%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.09%) DV Cleared
3 26 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 25 (11.36%) Degree
5 13 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.64%) CCNP
7 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.73%) CCIE
9 4 (1.82%) CCNA
10 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.36%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.36%) PMP
11 2 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.91%) CCSK
11 2 (0.91%) CCSP
11 2 (0.91%) CEH
11 2 (0.91%) CISA
11 2 (0.91%) CISM
12 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.91%) SLA
2 5 (2.27%) QA
3 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.91%) NIST
3 2 (0.91%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) GRC
4 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.82%) vCloud
2 3 (1.36%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (2.27%) PingFederate
2 4 (1.82%) Terraform
3 2 (0.91%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.45%) SCCM
4 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.00%) Cisco
3 8 (3.64%) SAP
4 7 (3.18%) Genesys
5 6 (2.73%) Juniper
5 6 (2.73%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.27%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.82%) Avaya
7 4 (1.82%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.82%) IBM
7 4 (1.82%) Nokia
7 4 (1.82%) VMware
8 3 (1.36%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.36%) Meraki
9 2 (0.91%) Conga
9 2 (0.91%) Databricks
9 2 (0.91%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.91%) F5