Presales Jobs in the North West

Presales
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 124 105
Rank change year-on-year -124 -19 +127
Permanent jobs citing Presales 42 189 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 1.83% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 2.25% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 41 67 37
10th Percentile £43,750 £33,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -39.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,000 £116,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -22.58% +10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,486 8,394 7,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.93% 81.13% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 6,316 3,841
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the North West

Presales
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Presales in the North West

Presales
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Presales in the North West

Presales
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester -31 19 £68,750 +80.92% 346
Lancashire -48 18 £56,250 - 90
Cumbria - 4 £56,250 - 1
Cheshire -11 1 £80,000 +88.24% 207
Presales
England

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) Azure
1 3 (7.14%) OCI
2 1 (2.38%) AWS
2 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.38%) GCP
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (2.38%) PaaS
2 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
2 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (66.67%) Firewall
2 27 (64.29%) LAN
2 27 (64.29%) WAN
3 5 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
General
1 27 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 24 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Law
4 5 (11.90%) Finance
5 3 (7.14%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Czech Language
6 1 (2.38%) Electronics
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (69.05%) Architect
2 24 (57.14%) Solutions Architect
3 22 (52.38%) Junior
3 22 (52.38%) Junior Architect
3 22 (52.38%) Junior Solutions Architect
4 9 (21.43%) Consultant
5 5 (11.90%) Network Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Presales Consultant
6 4 (9.52%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco Presales Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Cisco Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Presales Solution Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.76%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.76%) Blog
3 1 (2.38%) Life Science
3 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (14.29%) Business Development
2 5 (11.90%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (7.14%) Data Migration
4 3 (7.14%) ERP
4 3 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (7.14%) Migration
4 3 (7.14%) Project Management
4 3 (7.14%) Roadmaps
4 3 (7.14%) SIEM
4 3 (7.14%) SOAR
4 3 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (4.76%) Agile
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.76%) Customer Service
5 2 (4.76%) DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (4.76%) Release Management
5 2 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.38%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) Bicep
1 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (52.38%) CCNA
1 22 (52.38%) Cisco Certification
1 22 (52.38%) JNCIA
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Automic
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (66.67%) Cisco
1 28 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 28 (66.67%) Juniper
2 27 (64.29%) Aruba
3 22 (52.38%) Palo Alto
4 6 (14.29%) Oracle
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Broadcom
6 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.38%) Netskope
6 1 (2.38%) VMware
6 1 (2.38%) Workday
6 1 (2.38%) Zscaler