Presales Jobs in the South East

Presales
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 120 168
Rank change year-on-year -69 +48 +98
Permanent jobs citing Presales 138 369 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.36% 2.13% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 2.60% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 81 283 118
10th Percentile £28,500 - £26,200
25th Percentile £31,500 £24,500 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -26.53% -2.00%
75th Percentile £73,250 £64,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,000 £91,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.82% -18.00% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,127 14,199 11,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 81.98% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 9,723 7,312
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the South East

Presales
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Presales in the South East

Presales
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales in the South East over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Presales in the South East

Presales
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Hampshire +27 55 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Thames Valley -37 50 £65,000 +5.69% 64
Berkshire -2 33 £73,750 +19.92% 35
Surrey -36 13 £33,000 +32.00% 24
Oxfordshire +38 11 £65,000 +5.69% 14
Middlesex -4 11 - -
Buckinghamshire -30 6 £29,000 -23.68% 16
West Sussex +31 4 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Kent +27 1 £50,000 -28.57% 14
East Sussex +23 1 - - 4
Presales
England

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (7.25%) CMS
2 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.62%) Appian
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.45%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 31 (22.46%) Oracle SCM
2 7 (5.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.45%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (26.09%) OCI
2 28 (20.29%) Azure
3 14 (10.14%) AWS
3 14 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.25%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.80%) GCP
6 7 (5.07%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (4.35%) IaaS
8 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.62%) MinIO
9 4 (2.90%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.90%) SaaS
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.72%) OVHcloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) VPN
2 9 (6.52%) WAN
3 8 (5.80%) Firewall
3 8 (5.80%) LAN
4 6 (4.35%) BGP
4 6 (4.35%) OSPF
4 6 (4.35%) SAN
5 4 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.17%) Network Security
6 3 (2.17%) Wireless
7 2 (1.45%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.72%) DHCP
8 1 (0.72%) DNS
8 1 (0.72%) Intelligent Network
8 1 (0.72%) IPsec
8 1 (0.72%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.72%) Junos
8 1 (0.72%) MPLS
8 1 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.90%) Power BI
2 2 (1.45%) Airbyte
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Robot Framework
1 5 (3.62%) Selenium
1 5 (3.62%) Snyk
2 1 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 57 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.19%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.97%) Finance
5 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.35%) Electronics
6 6 (4.35%) Legal
7 5 (3.62%) Marketing
8 4 (2.90%) Banking
8 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.17%) Police
10 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 45 (32.61%) Consultant
2 35 (25.36%) Oracle Consultant
3 21 (15.22%) Architect
4 11 (7.97%) Senior
5 10 (7.25%) C# Architect
5 10 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.80%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (4.35%) Customer Support Technician
7 6 (4.35%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Support Technician
8 5 (3.62%) 1st Line Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Applications Architect
8 5 (3.62%) CRM Manager
8 5 (3.62%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (3.62%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (2.90%) IT Support
9 4 (2.90%) Senior Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.62%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (3.62%) Kafka
1 5 (3.62%) SAML
2 3 (2.17%) .NET
2 3 (2.17%) React
3 1 (0.72%) CSS
3 1 (0.72%) HTML
3 1 (0.72%) HTML5
3 1 (0.72%) Next.js
3 1 (0.72%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (7.25%) Driving Licence
3 9 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.07%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.07%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.35%) PMI
6 5 (3.62%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.62%) PKI
7 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.07%) Windows
2 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.17%) Linux
4 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.22%) Project Delivery
2 19 (13.77%) Project Management
3 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (10.87%) E-Commerce
6 13 (9.42%) CRM
7 11 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (7.25%) Agile
9 9 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (6.52%) Customer Requirements
10 8 (5.80%) CI/CD
10 8 (5.80%) Cloud Security
10 8 (5.80%) DevOps
10 8 (5.80%) Systems Engineering
11 7 (5.07%) Architectural Patterns
11 7 (5.07%) ERP
11 7 (5.07%) Incident Response
11 7 (5.07%) Microservices
11 7 (5.07%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.42%) C#
2 12 (8.70%) Python
3 8 (5.80%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.07%) Bash
4 7 (5.07%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.45%) VBA
6 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.67%) Degree
2 16 (11.59%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (10.87%) CCNA
4 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.80%) CISSP
6 7 (5.07%) CCNP
6 7 (5.07%) CEH
6 7 (5.07%) CISM
6 7 (5.07%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (5.07%) OSCP
7 6 (4.35%) PMI Certification
7 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
8 5 (3.62%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.72%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.07%) GDPR
2 7 (5.07%) HIPAA
2 7 (5.07%) NIST
3 5 (3.62%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.72%) QA
4 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.72%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (5.07%) QRadar
1 7 (5.07%) Terraform
2 6 (4.35%) Ansible
3 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.72%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 37 (26.81%) Oracle
2 33 (23.91%) IBM
3 27 (19.57%) Microsoft
4 25 (18.12%) Cisco
5 20 (14.49%) VMware
6 14 (10.14%) Dell
7 12 (8.70%) Salesforce
8 9 (6.52%) Fortinet
9 8 (5.80%) Palo Alto
10 7 (5.07%) Juniper
10 7 (5.07%) Meraki
10 7 (5.07%) Splunk
10 7 (5.07%) Veeam
11 5 (3.62%) BiZZdesign
11 5 (3.62%) Black Duck
11 5 (3.62%) Sophos
11 5 (3.62%) UiPath
12 3 (2.17%) Ekahau
13 2 (1.45%) Coverity
13 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow