Presales Jobs in England

Presales
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Presales skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Presales over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 169 163
Rank change year-on-year -151 -6 +130
Permanent jobs citing Presales 441 1,464 1,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.89% 1.63% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.94% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 290 887 763
10th Percentile £34,650 £24,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,750 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -22.58% +10.71%
75th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,875 £97,500 £114,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +13.82% -20.65% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Presales falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Presales in England

Presales
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Presales in England

Presales
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Presales in England

Presales
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -47 167 £88,750 +10.94% 735
South East -76 124 £60,000 +26.32% 143
North of England -126 53 £57,500 +27.78% 101
Midlands -58 43 £65,000 +13.04% 63
North West -130 42 £57,500 +27.78% 74
West Midlands -19 26 £67,500 +17.39% 39
South West +5 21 £52,500 -12.50% 51
East Midlands -8 17 £62,500 +4.17% 24
East of England -20 13 £68,250 +36.50% 24
Yorkshire -5 11 £75,000 +20.00% 22
Presales
UK

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.13%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.13%) Appian
3 4 (0.91%) Apache
3 4 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (3.17%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 35 (7.94%) Oracle SCM
2 18 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (1.59%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.68%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.23%) SAP FSCM
9 1 (0.23%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 103 (23.36%) Azure
2 67 (15.19%) AWS
3 48 (10.88%) OCI
4 44 (9.98%) GCP
5 33 (7.48%) Power Platform
6 31 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (6.35%) SaaS
8 18 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.17%) IaaS
10 13 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.27%) Snowflake
13 9 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.04%) PaaS
13 9 (2.04%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.04%) Pulumi
14 8 (1.81%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.59%) Azure AI
15 7 (1.59%) Serverless
16 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (13.61%) Firewall
2 53 (12.02%) WAN
3 47 (10.66%) LAN
4 28 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (3.40%) VPN
6 14 (3.17%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (2.72%) SD-WAN
8 10 (2.27%) Network Security
9 9 (2.04%) Wireless
10 8 (1.81%) BGP
10 8 (1.81%) SAN
11 7 (1.59%) MPLS
11 7 (1.59%) OSPF
12 6 (1.36%) NetScaler
13 5 (1.13%) ADSL
13 5 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (1.13%) DNS
13 5 (1.13%) LoRaWAN
13 5 (1.13%) Modbus
13 5 (1.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.49%) Power BI
3 8 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (1.59%) BigQuery
4 7 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.91%) KDB
7 4 (0.91%) Kdb+
7 4 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.68%) Big Data
8 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.45%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.45%) Flink
9 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.23%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Robot Framework
1 5 (1.13%) Selenium
1 5 (1.13%) Snyk
1 5 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (0.91%) JIRA
3 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.23%) GitLab
3 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 196 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 98 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 87 (19.73%) Finance
4 47 (10.66%) Marketing
5 38 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (7.71%) Public Sector
7 23 (5.22%) Law
8 18 (4.08%) Legal
9 13 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.95%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.27%) Banking
11 8 (1.81%) Billing
11 8 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.81%) Retail
12 7 (1.59%) Back Office
13 6 (1.36%) Front Office
14 5 (1.13%) Electronics
14 5 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.91%) Police
Job Titles
1 127 (28.80%) Consultant
2 112 (25.40%) Architect
3 64 (14.51%) Solutions Architect
4 61 (13.83%) Senior
5 48 (10.88%) Oracle Consultant
6 31 (7.03%) Presales Consultant
7 27 (6.12%) Junior
8 26 (5.90%) Lead
9 24 (5.44%) Senior Consultant
10 22 (4.99%) Junior Architect
10 22 (4.99%) Junior Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.85%) Project Manager
12 16 (3.63%) Support Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.17%) Network Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Presales Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Solutions Consultant
14 13 (2.95%) Presales Solution Architect
15 12 (2.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 12 (2.72%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.27%) .NET
2 9 (2.04%) Loki
3 7 (1.59%) HTML
3 7 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.36%) React
5 5 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (1.13%) Kafka
5 5 (1.13%) SAML
6 4 (0.91%) CSS
6 4 (0.91%) Next.js
6 4 (0.91%) XML
7 3 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.68%) FastAPI
7 3 (0.68%) JSON
7 3 (0.68%) SOAP
7 3 (0.68%) Web Services
8 2 (0.45%) EJB
8 2 (0.45%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.45%) HTML5
8 2 (0.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 18 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.17%) Driving Licence
5 14 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.27%) PKI
7 9 (2.04%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.59%) Life Science
8 7 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.59%) PMI
8 7 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.36%) Tandem
9 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.85%) Windows
2 9 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.59%) Linux
4 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.45%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (14.29%) Business Development
1 63 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (13.38%) Agile
3 55 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (12.02%) Project Management
5 52 (11.79%) Mentoring
6 48 (10.88%) Customer Requirements
6 48 (10.88%) Project Delivery
7 37 (8.39%) Analytics
8 36 (8.16%) Migration
8 36 (8.16%) Roadmaps
9 35 (7.94%) CRM
10 33 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 32 (7.26%) Thought Leadership
12 28 (6.35%) Data Integration
13 27 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
14 24 (5.44%) CI/CD
14 24 (5.44%) ERP
15 23 (5.22%) DevOps
16 22 (4.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.16%) Python
2 33 (7.48%) SQL
3 13 (2.95%) Bash
4 12 (2.72%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.49%) Go
6 10 (2.27%) C#
7 8 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.36%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.68%) Java
10 3 (0.68%) Scala
10 3 (0.68%) Swift
10 3 (0.68%) VBA
11 2 (0.45%) Bicep
11 2 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.23%) ABAP
12 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.23%) C
12 1 (0.23%) C++
12 1 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 70 (15.87%) Degree
2 63 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 48 (10.88%) CCNA
4 43 (9.75%) Security Cleared
5 28 (6.35%) CCNP
6 22 (4.99%) JNCIA
7 18 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.08%) SC Cleared
8 15 (3.40%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.95%) PMI Certification
10 10 (2.27%) CISSP
11 9 (2.04%) AWS Certification
11 9 (2.04%) CCIE
11 9 (2.04%) CISM
12 7 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (1.36%) PMP
13 6 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.54%) QA
2 11 (2.49%) NIST
3 9 (2.04%) GDPR
4 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.13%) SLA
6 4 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.45%) PMO
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.23%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.59%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.91%) Docker
7 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.23%) KVM
8 1 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 17 (3.85%) Terraform
2 12 (2.72%) Ansible
3 9 (2.04%) Grafana
3 9 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.13%) CASB
4 5 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (0.91%) Automic
5 4 (0.91%) QRadar
6 2 (0.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.45%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.23%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.23%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 76 (17.23%) Cisco
3 73 (16.55%) Oracle
4 57 (12.93%) Fortinet
5 48 (10.88%) Palo Alto
6 42 (9.52%) Juniper
7 38 (8.62%) IBM
8 37 (8.39%) Aruba
9 26 (5.90%) VMware
10 25 (5.67%) Meraki
11 18 (4.08%) Salesforce
12 15 (3.40%) Dell
12 15 (3.40%) SAP
13 12 (2.72%) Google
14 11 (2.49%) HP
15 9 (2.04%) Databricks
15 9 (2.04%) Ekahau
15 9 (2.04%) Hitachi
15 9 (2.04%) Veeam
16 8 (1.81%) ServiceNow