Presales Job Trends in the North of England

Presales
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Presales skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 185 201
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 +58
Permanent jobs citing Presales 75 102 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.70% 1.12% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.24% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 66 62 53
10th Percentile - £43,750 £37,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,754 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.52% +1.37% -12.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -11.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Presales job vacancy trend in the North of England

Presales
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presales.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Presales

Presales
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Presales in the North of England

Presales
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -2 52 £75,000 +36.36% 49
Yorkshire -6 21 £92,500 +15.63% 44
North East +3 2 £100,000 +55.04% 24
Presales
England

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (9.33%) CMS
2 4 (5.33%) Headless CMS
2 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (10.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.67%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.33%) SAP IBP
3 1 (1.33%) SAP MII
3 1 (1.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.67%) SaaS
3 4 (5.33%) AWS
3 4 (5.33%) OCI
3 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.00%) Azure
4 3 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.00%) Firewall
1 18 (24.00%) LAN
1 18 (24.00%) WAN
2 1 (1.33%) DHCP
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.33%) VLAN
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Git
1 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 32 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.33%) Presentation Skills
3 18 (24.00%) Finance
4 9 (12.00%) Retail
5 7 (9.33%) Law
5 7 (9.33%) Manufacturing
5 7 (9.33%) Marketing
6 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.00%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Automotive
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Consultant
2 18 (24.00%) Presales Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) Juniper Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) LAN Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) WAN Engineer
4 13 (17.33%) Senior
5 7 (9.33%) Lead
6 5 (6.67%) Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.00%) Oracle Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Power Platform Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) React
2 7 (9.33%) GraphQL
2 7 (9.33%) Next.js
2 7 (9.33%) REST
3 3 (4.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.33%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
1 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.33%) Mentoring
2 12 (16.00%) Business Development
3 10 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
3 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.00%) ERP
5 7 (9.33%) Agile
5 7 (9.33%) API Integration
5 7 (9.33%) B2B
5 7 (9.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (9.33%) Customer Requirements
5 7 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (9.33%) E-Commerce
5 7 (9.33%) Project Delivery
5 7 (9.33%) Thought Leadership
5 7 (9.33%) Validation
5 7 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (8.00%) Project Management
6 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (6.67%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (9.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.00%) Python
4 2 (2.67%) Perl
4 2 (2.67%) Ruby
5 1 (1.33%) PHP
5 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) CCNA
1 17 (22.67%) Cisco Certification
1 17 (22.67%) JNCIA
2 10 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (2.67%) CEH
3 2 (2.67%) CISA
3 2 (2.67%) CISSP
3 2 (2.67%) OSCP
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.67%) GRC
1 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.67%) NIST
1 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.67%) QA
1 2 (2.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (25.33%) Fortinet
2 18 (24.00%) Cisco
2 18 (24.00%) Juniper
3 17 (22.67%) Aruba
4 10 (13.33%) SAP
5 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (8.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) Adobe
7 2 (2.67%) Apple
7 2 (2.67%) Dell
7 2 (2.67%) Sage
7 2 (2.67%) Sony
8 1 (1.33%) Anaplan
8 1 (1.33%) Ariba
8 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.33%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.33%) Veeam
8 1 (1.33%) VMware
8 1 (1.33%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.33%) Workday