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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 513 504
Rank change year-on-year +118 -9 -118
Contract jobs citing Presales 212 183 383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.37% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 100 242
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £488 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £813 £813 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% -
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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +136 181 £550 +7.32% 494
UK excluding London +78 91 £600 +17.07% 255
London +98 84 £542 +5.76% 193
Work from Home +79 66 £534 +1.71% 243
South East +30 44 £585 -4.49% 69
South West +30 20 £600 +4.35% 32
Midlands +21 11 £513 +2.50% 59
West Midlands +15 10 £494 +3.95% 46
East of England +8 9 £400 - 22
North of England +23 5 £550 +57.14% 63
Yorkshire +14 3 £500 +5.26% 28
North West +9 2 £576 +64.57% 30
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 2
Wales - 2 - - 4
East Midlands +9 1 £725 +18.37% 13

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.42%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) InVision
5 1 (0.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Loan IQ
2 6 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.94%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.47%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.15%) Azure
2 23 (10.85%) AWS
3 14 (6.60%) SaaS
4 12 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (3.30%) GCP
5 7 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.30%) Serverless
6 6 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.36%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (2.36%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (2.36%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.36%) PaaS
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.89%) AWS KMS
8 4 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.79%) WAN
2 20 (9.43%) PBX
3 19 (8.96%) SD-WAN
3 19 (8.96%) VoIP
4 14 (6.60%) LAN
5 11 (5.19%) WLAN
6 9 (4.25%) Wireless
7 6 (2.83%) SDH
8 5 (2.36%) Firewall
8 5 (2.36%) Kerberos
8 5 (2.36%) MPLS
8 5 (2.36%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.42%) SSL
10 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.42%) VPN
11 2 (0.94%) 4G
11 2 (0.94%) DNS
11 2 (0.94%) IP Telephony
11 2 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.83%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (1.89%) Big Data
4 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.94%) Power BI
5 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) DB2
6 1 (0.47%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) MySQL
6 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.94%) JIRA
2 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.17%) Finance
2 47 (22.17%) Presentation Skills
3 41 (19.34%) Telecoms
4 26 (12.26%) Marketing
4 26 (12.26%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.30%) Electronics
7 7 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.36%) Billing
9 4 (1.89%) Legal
9 4 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.42%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.42%) German Language
11 2 (0.94%) Advertising
11 2 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 120 (56.60%) Architect
2 59 (27.83%) Solutions Architect
3 42 (19.81%) Consultant
4 24 (11.32%) Senior
5 20 (9.43%) Lead
5 20 (9.43%) Network Architect
6 18 (8.49%) Security Architect
7 12 (5.66%) Lead Architect
8 11 (5.19%) Presales Consultant
8 11 (5.19%) Technical Architect
9 10 (4.72%) Project Manager
10 9 (4.25%) Azure Architect
10 9 (4.25%) Presales Solution Architect
10 9 (4.25%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.77%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.77%) Network Engineer
11 8 (3.77%) Technical Consultant
12 7 (3.30%) Senior Consultant
12 7 (3.30%) Solutions Consultant
13 5 (2.36%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.36%) OAuth
1 5 (2.36%) OpenID
1 5 (2.36%) SAML
2 4 (1.89%) CSS
3 3 (1.42%) .NET
3 3 (1.42%) JSON
3 3 (1.42%) XML
4 2 (0.94%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.94%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.94%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.94%) HTML
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 2 (0.94%) Node.js
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.94%) RESTful
4 2 (0.94%) WCF
4 2 (0.94%) Web Services
5 1 (0.47%) JDBC
5 1 (0.47%) LDAP
5 1 (0.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.02%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.25%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.30%) Augmented Reality
6 7 (3.30%) Virtual Reality
7 5 (2.36%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.42%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.42%) Solar Power
10 2 (0.94%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.89%) Windows
2 2 (0.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (17.45%) Agile
2 27 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (12.74%) Project Delivery
2 27 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (12.74%) Value Proposition
3 26 (12.26%) Roadmaps
4 18 (8.49%) Customer Requirements
5 17 (8.02%) CI/CD
5 17 (8.02%) Data Protection
5 17 (8.02%) Migration
6 16 (7.55%) DevOps
6 16 (7.55%) Security Architecture
7 14 (6.60%) Risk Management
8 13 (6.13%) Network Management
8 13 (6.13%) Product Management
8 13 (6.13%) Project Management
8 13 (6.13%) Requirements Management
8 13 (6.13%) SIEM
9 12 (5.66%) Computer Science
10 11 (5.19%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.08%) SQL
2 8 (3.77%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.30%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.89%) C#
4 4 (1.89%) Python
5 3 (1.42%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.47%) Bash
6 1 (0.47%) Bicep
6 1 (0.47%) Java
6 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (38.21%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.04%) DV Cleared
3 30 (14.15%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.32%) Degree
5 10 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.77%) CCNP
7 6 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.83%) CCIE
7 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.42%) CISSP
8 3 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.42%) PMP
8 3 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.94%) CCSK
9 2 (0.94%) CCSP
9 2 (0.94%) CEH
9 2 (0.94%) CISA
9 2 (0.94%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.13%) SLA
2 4 (1.89%) QA
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
3 3 (1.42%) NIST
4 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.94%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) GRC
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.89%) vCloud
3 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.30%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.30%) Terraform
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.36%) PingFederate
3 3 (1.42%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.47%) SCCM
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.38%) Cisco
3 10 (4.72%) SAP
4 8 (3.77%) Juniper
5 6 (2.83%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.36%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.36%) VMware
7 4 (1.89%) Databricks
7 4 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.89%) IBM
7 4 (1.89%) Nokia
8 3 (1.42%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.42%) F5
8 3 (1.42%) Oracle
9 2 (0.94%) Computacenter
9 2 (0.94%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.94%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.94%) Mitel