Presales Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Presales
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Presales skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 290 235
Rank change year-on-year +57 -55 +22
Permanent jobs citing Presales 483 253 833
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.88% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.95% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 379 172 606
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,650 £24,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £78,125 £70,313 £65,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +13.82% -23.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,540 26,515 57,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.14% 92.01% 83.50%
Number of salaries quoted 29,776 14,037 41,076
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,117
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Presales relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Presales job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Presales
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Presales.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Presales

Presales
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 of England +16 134 £60,000 +4.35% 82
South East -5 108 £60,000 - 98
Midlands +17 102 £67,500 +3.85% 50
North West +30 94 £60,000 +4.35% 49
East of England +44 73 £67,500 +68.75% 32
West Midlands +6 60 £60,000 -11.11% 33
East Midlands -1 42 £70,000 +7.69% 17
South West -28 36 £80,000 +52.38% 25
Yorkshire -24 35 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Wales - 13 £42,500 - 7
Scotland -3 9 £72,500 +61.11% 11
North East -39 5 £77,500 +127.94% 10
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland -37 3 - - 3
Presales
UK

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.04%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.04%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.83%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.62%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (15.94%) Azure
2 40 (8.28%) SaaS
3 39 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (7.25%) AWS
5 30 (6.21%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.48%) IaaS
7 11 (2.28%) GCP
7 11 (2.28%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.86%) Nutanix
9 8 (1.66%) dbt
9 8 (1.66%) Mimecast
9 8 (1.66%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.45%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (10.35%) Firewall
2 35 (7.25%) WAN
3 25 (5.18%) Unified Communications
4 23 (4.76%) LAN
5 17 (3.52%) VoIP
5 17 (3.52%) VPN
6 16 (3.31%) VLAN
7 11 (2.28%) DECT
7 11 (2.28%) PBX
8 9 (1.86%) DNS
8 9 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.86%) Wireless
8 9 (1.86%) Wireshark
9 8 (1.66%) DHCP
9 8 (1.66%) DSL
10 7 (1.45%) Network Security
11 6 (1.24%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.04%) Broadband
13 4 (0.83%) IPv6
13 4 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.69%) Power BI
2 10 (2.07%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.66%) Looker
4 8 (1.66%) Tableau
5 7 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (1.04%) DTS
7 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.62%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.21%) Metadata
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.45%) MLflow
2 2 (0.41%) JUnit
2 2 (0.41%) Maven
2 2 (0.41%) Mockito
3 1 (0.21%) Appium
3 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.21%) Git
3 1 (0.21%) JIRA
3 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 149 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.81%) Marketing
3 43 (8.90%) Finance
4 35 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
5 27 (5.59%) Retail
6 25 (5.18%) Manufacturing
6 25 (5.18%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (3.52%) Law
8 17 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.04%) Games
12 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.83%) Military
13 3 (0.62%) Automotive
13 3 (0.62%) Police
14 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.41%) Local Government
14 2 (0.41%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 154 (31.88%) Consultant
2 76 (15.73%) Architect
3 70 (14.49%) Presales Consultant
4 65 (13.46%) Solutions Architect
5 60 (12.42%) Senior
6 40 (8.28%) Presales Engineer
7 36 (7.45%) Solutions Consultant
8 33 (6.83%) Technical Consultant
9 30 (6.21%) Presales Solution Architect
10 23 (4.76%) Account Manager
10 23 (4.76%) Lead
11 20 (4.14%) Technical Presales Consultant
12 18 (3.73%) Cisco Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) Firewall Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) Juniper Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) LAN Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) LAN/WAN Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) Support Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) WAN Engineer
13 16 (3.31%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.86%) React
2 8 (1.66%) PyTorch
2 8 (1.66%) REST
2 8 (1.66%) TensorFlow
3 7 (1.45%) Kafka
3 7 (1.45%) LangChain
3 7 (1.45%) LlamaIndex
3 7 (1.45%) pgvector
3 7 (1.45%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.24%) .NET
5 5 (1.04%) GraphQL
5 5 (1.04%) Next.js
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.62%) CSS
8 2 (0.41%) Spring
9 1 (0.21%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.21%) OAuth
9 1 (0.21%) OpenID
9 1 (0.21%) SAML
9 1 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.42%) Data Centre
2 29 (6.00%) Driving Licence
3 24 (4.97%) Web Conferencing
4 20 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.28%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.07%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.66%) NHS
9 8 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.45%) Clustering
11 6 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.04%) Blog
12 5 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.04%) Replication
13 4 (0.83%) Life Science
13 4 (0.83%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.63%) Windows
2 19 (3.93%) Linux
3 11 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.21%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.21%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
3 46 (9.52%) Project Delivery
4 45 (9.32%) Business Development
5 42 (8.70%) AI
6 40 (8.28%) Customer Engagement
6 40 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (7.66%) CRM
8 33 (6.83%) Agile
8 33 (6.83%) Customer Requirements
9 30 (6.21%) Customer Service
10 29 (6.00%) Service Delivery
11 27 (5.59%) Decision-Making
12 26 (5.38%) Collaborative Culture
12 26 (5.38%) IT Strategy
13 25 (5.18%) Project Management
14 24 (4.97%) Mentoring
14 24 (4.97%) Roadmaps
15 23 (4.76%) Technology Strategy
16 22 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.35%) SQL
2 16 (3.31%) Python
3 11 (2.28%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.07%) Ladder Logic
5 6 (1.24%) C#
6 5 (1.04%) C++
6 5 (1.04%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.83%) Bash
8 2 (0.41%) Java
8 2 (0.41%) Perl
8 2 (0.41%) PHP
8 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.41%) Ruby
9 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (8.90%) Degree
2 36 (7.45%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (7.04%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.76%) CCNA
5 18 (3.73%) JNCIA
6 17 (3.52%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.90%) CCNP
8 10 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.04%) CREST Certified
12 5 (1.04%) MCSE
13 4 (0.83%) CISSP
13 4 (0.83%) RHCE
14 3 (0.62%) CCIE
14 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.62%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.66%) GDPR
1 8 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (1.45%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.24%) SLA
4 5 (1.04%) QA
5 4 (0.83%) PMO
6 3 (0.62%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.41%) GRC
7 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) HL7
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.45%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.45%) vSphere
4 6 (1.24%) KVM
5 4 (0.83%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.62%) Lustre
6 3 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.62%) vCloud
6 3 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.41%) Docker
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.04%) Ansible
3 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.21%) OpenView
4 1 (0.21%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.21%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 84 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.07%) Fortinet
3 36 (7.45%) Cisco
4 23 (4.76%) Juniper
4 23 (4.76%) VMware
5 21 (4.35%) Aruba
5 21 (4.35%) Dell
6 14 (2.90%) Oracle
7 10 (2.07%) Databricks
8 9 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.66%) Barracuda Networks
9 8 (1.66%) N-able
9 8 (1.66%) Sophos
10 7 (1.45%) Cloudera
10 7 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.45%) Sage
10 7 (1.45%) Veeam
11 6 (1.24%) NetApp
12 5 (1.04%) SAP
12 5 (1.04%) Zerto