Presales Contract Job Trends in Wales

Presales
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Presales skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Presales 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.68% - 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £541 - -
90th Percentile £546 - -
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 445 277 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 75.42% 89.94% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 181 194
10th Percentile £300 £190 £143
25th Percentile £375 £300 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -14.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £577 £488 £551
90th Percentile £710 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 34 43
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.42 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.42 £15.48
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.01 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +3.83% +3.82%
75th Percentile £38.74 £25.15 £50.88
90th Percentile £50.38 £37.65 £82.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Presales relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Presales job vacancy trend in Wales

Presales
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Presales.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Presales

Presales
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the Wales region over the 6 months to 29 June 2026. 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 Wales - 4 £525 - 4
Presales
UK

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Senior Backup Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
1 2 (50.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) VMware