Presales Job Trends in the Home Counties

Presales
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring Presales skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing Presales 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Home Counties 28.57% - 25.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.57% - 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £86,000 - -
25th Percentile £87,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £90,000
75th Percentile £92,500 - -
90th Percentile £94,000 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +31.58% -29.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Home Counties 100.00% 90.91% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £52,500 - £55,400
25th Percentile £58,125 - £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -29.41% +41.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - £89,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Presales relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Presales job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Presales
Salary Trend in the Home Counties

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Presales.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Presales

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior VMware Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Architect
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
1 2 (100.00%) VCDX
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) vCloud
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
1 2 (100.00%) VMware