Presales
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Presales skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Presales over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 148 229
Rank change year-on-year -17 +81 -57
Permanent jobs citing Presales 1,796 2,449 2,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 2.42% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.53% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 958 987 1,658
10th Percentile £25,625 £43,900 £44,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £82,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £117,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Presales.

Salary trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Presales in the UK

Presales
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 1,415 £60,000 -25.00% 419
UK excluding London +9 1,205 £50,000 -23.08% 235
Work from Home +20 1,098 £61,500 -20.65% 243
South East +66 387 £45,000 -30.77% 70
London -38 385 £80,000 -5.88% 168
North of England -5 253 £42,500 -32.00% 47
North West -15 182 £40,250 -38.08% 25
Midlands -1 166 £57,500 -19.30% 51
South West +13 134 £60,750 -10.00% 32
Scotland -67 116 £60,000 -25.00% 18
West Midlands +10 93 £57,500 -20.69% 33
East of England +30 74 £50,000 -1.48% 15
Yorkshire +42 72 £57,500 -4.17% 17
East Midlands -11 69 £57,500 -17.86% 18
Northern Ireland +21 47 £57,500 - 6
Wales -16 40 £67,500 +12.50% 4
North East -20 8 £48,750 +47.73% 5
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

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 90 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 62 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (2.28%) IIS
4 38 (2.12%) CMS
4 38 (2.12%) Umbraco
5 36 (2.00%) Headless CMS
5 36 (2.00%) Kentico
5 36 (2.00%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.11%) Documentum
8 2 (0.11%) FileNet
8 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.056%) Confluence
9 1 (0.056%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 34 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.28%) Autodesk Inventor
5 5 (0.28%) Fusion 360
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) InDesign
7 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.056%) Revit
Business Applications
1 65 (3.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 18 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
4 13 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 12 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
6 7 (0.39%) Elite 3E
6 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payroll
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI-AP
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 494 (27.51%) Azure
2 288 (16.04%) Microsoft 365
3 253 (14.09%) AWS
4 176 (9.80%) SaaS
5 161 (8.96%) Power Platform
6 108 (6.01%) Dynamics 365
7 107 (5.96%) GCP
8 105 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (3.12%) Entra ID
10 43 (2.39%) PowerApps
11 38 (2.12%) Power Automate
12 36 (2.00%) Kontent
13 31 (1.73%) OCI
14 27 (1.50%) IaaS
14 27 (1.50%) PaaS
15 23 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
16 21 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (1.17%) OneDrive
17 20 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 136 (7.57%) WAN
2 98 (5.46%) SD-WAN
3 94 (5.23%) Firewall
4 85 (4.73%) LAN
5 53 (2.95%) Wireless
6 46 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
7 43 (2.39%) VPN
8 32 (1.78%) Unified Communications
9 29 (1.61%) SAN
10 27 (1.50%) Internet
11 25 (1.39%) VLAN
12 24 (1.34%) Network Security
13 22 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
14 21 (1.17%) BGP
14 21 (1.17%) DNS
15 19 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
15 19 (1.06%) WLAN
16 18 (1.00%) TCP/IP
17 16 (0.89%) VoIP
18 14 (0.78%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
2 69 (3.84%) Power BI
3 57 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 47 (2.62%) Data Lake
5 35 (1.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (1.17%) Metadata
9 14 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
9 14 (0.78%) QlikView
10 13 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (0.50%) MySQL
12 7 (0.39%) Big Data
13 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
14 4 (0.22%) DTS
15 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
16 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
16 2 (0.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 2 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (1.11%) Visual Studio
2 17 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (0.33%) Git
4 5 (0.28%) GitLab
4 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (0.28%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.22%) JIRA
6 3 (0.17%) GCC
7 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
General
1 570 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 234 (13.03%) Finance
3 218 (12.14%) Presentation Skills
4 116 (6.46%) Marketing
5 103 (5.73%) Billing
6 94 (5.23%) Retail
7 73 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (2.62%) Public Sector
9 44 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.39%) Legal
14 23 (1.28%) Local Government
14 23 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.06%) Law
16 18 (1.00%) Back Office
17 17 (0.95%) Banking
18 12 (0.67%) Automotive
19 11 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 592 (32.96%) Architect
2 331 (18.43%) Consultant
3 315 (17.54%) Solutions Architect
4 252 (14.03%) Senior
5 221 (12.31%) Project Manager
6 173 (9.63%) Presales Manager
7 158 (8.80%) Presales Solution Architect
8 99 (5.51%) Cloud Architect
9 95 (5.29%) Lead
10 85 (4.73%) Senior Architect
11 76 (4.23%) Technical Consultant
12 65 (3.62%) Senior Consultant
13 52 (2.90%) Presales Consultant
13 52 (2.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 50 (2.78%) Security Architect
15 47 (2.62%) ServiceNow Architect
16 44 (2.45%) Developer
17 43 (2.39%) Presales Engineer
18 40 (2.23%) Data Consultant
19 39 (2.17%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (5.35%) .NET
2 54 (3.01%) .NET Core
2 54 (3.01%) RESTful
3 45 (2.51%) React
4 41 (2.28%) HTML
5 38 (2.12%) ASP.NET
6 37 (2.06%) Next.js
6 37 (2.06%) SOAP
7 36 (2.00%) .NET Framework
7 36 (2.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 27 (1.50%) Web Services
9 23 (1.28%) REST
10 21 (1.17%) CSS
11 17 (0.95%) XML
12 15 (0.84%) JSON
13 9 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.50%) LDAP
14 7 (0.39%) Node.js
15 6 (0.33%) Ajax
16 5 (0.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 219 (12.19%) Data Centre
2 182 (10.13%) Self-Motivation
3 165 (9.19%) Public Cloud
4 96 (5.35%) Video Conferencing
5 91 (5.07%) Digital Signage
6 89 (4.96%) Video\Live Streaming
7 84 (4.68%) PKI
8 49 (2.73%) Cloud Native
9 42 (2.34%) Driving Licence
10 39 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 38 (2.12%) Virtual Team
12 36 (2.00%) Onboarding
13 34 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 34 (1.89%) IoT
14 31 (1.73%) Management Information System
15 22 (1.22%) Replication
16 19 (1.06%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.00%) FMCG
18 17 (0.95%) Client/Server
19 15 (0.84%) PlayStation
Operating Systems
1 165 (9.19%) Windows
2 85 (4.73%) Linux
3 59 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 42 (2.34%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (0.67%) SUSE
6 12 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.50%) Unix
8 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.33%) Android
9 6 (0.33%) Mesosphere
10 5 (0.28%) VMS
11 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.056%) CentOS
13 1 (0.056%) Debian
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (25.61%) Actionable Insight
2 422 (23.50%) Project Management
3 376 (20.94%) Agile
4 355 (19.77%) Project Delivery
5 256 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
6 246 (13.70%) Software Delivery
7 230 (12.81%) Cybersecurity
8 199 (11.08%) SDLC
9 189 (10.52%) Agile Project Management
10 187 (10.41%) Thought Leadership
11 180 (10.02%) DevOps
12 179 (9.97%) Customer Service
13 172 (9.58%) Analytics
14 166 (9.24%) Migration
15 155 (8.63%) TOGAF
16 146 (8.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 140 (7.80%) CRM
17 140 (7.80%) Customer Requirements
18 133 (7.41%) Software Licensing
19 132 (7.35%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 100 (5.57%) JavaScript
2 88 (4.90%) C#
3 66 (3.67%) SQL
4 50 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 43 (2.39%) Python
6 22 (1.22%) Java
7 21 (1.17%) Bicep
8 14 (0.78%) Bash
9 8 (0.45%) C
10 7 (0.39%) Perl
11 6 (0.33%) R
12 4 (0.22%) C++
12 4 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.17%) PHP
13 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.11%) ABAP
14 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.056%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.056%) VB
Qualifications
1 315 (17.54%) Degree
2 304 (16.93%) Security Cleared
3 235 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 86 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 66 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 65 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (3.29%) AWS Certification
7 59 (3.29%) CCNP
8 53 (2.95%) CCNA
9 43 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 37 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 26 (1.45%) MCP
12 26 (1.45%) MCSE
13 21 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (1.11%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (0.67%) MCSA
16 12 (0.67%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (6.51%) SLA
2 47 (2.62%) QA
3 32 (1.78%) COBIT
3 32 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.28%) GDPR
5 18 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.78%) NIST
7 14 (0.78%) PMO
8 12 (0.67%) ISO 9001
9 10 (0.56%) GRC
9 10 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.28%) GAMP
10 5 (0.28%) GMP
11 4 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.22%) NCSC
12 1 (0.056%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (7.24%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.72%) Docker
4 13 (0.72%) vCloud
4 13 (0.72%) vSphere
5 9 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.056%) NFS
8 1 (0.056%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 51 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (1.78%) OpenView
3 21 (1.17%) Stealthwatch
4 16 (0.89%) CASB
5 15 (0.84%) Ansible
6 14 (0.78%) Kubernetes
7 11 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.39%) Terraform
9 6 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (0.33%) HP UCMDB
9 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.33%) Puppet
9 6 (0.33%) SmoothWall
10 4 (0.22%) Grafana
10 4 (0.22%) SCCM
11 3 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.11%) Aspera SmartTrack
12 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 623 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.74%) Adobe
3 136 (7.57%) Apple
4 128 (7.13%) Cisco
5 93 (5.18%) VMware
6 91 (5.07%) HP
7 89 (4.96%) Meraki
8 88 (4.90%) Google
9 67 (3.73%) Dell
10 64 (3.56%) ServiceNow
11 62 (3.45%) Oracle
12 53 (2.95%) Aruba
13 47 (2.62%) BMC
14 45 (2.51%) Remedy
15 43 (2.39%) Fortinet
16 38 (2.12%) SAP
17 36 (2.00%) Optimizely
17 36 (2.00%) Sitecore
18 32 (1.78%) Samsung
19 31 (1.73%) Salesforce