Presales Jobs in the UK excluding London

Presales
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 169 164
Rank change year-on-year -171 -5 +88
Permanent jobs citing Presales 267 1,235 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.65% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 2.00% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 181 647 331
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £73,250 £67,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +13.82% -20.65% +10.71%

All Process and 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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Presales in the UK excluding London

Presales
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
South East -76 124 £60,000 +26.32% 143
North of England -126 53 £57,500 +27.78% 101
Midlands -58 43 £65,000 +13.04% 63
North West -130 42 £57,500 +27.78% 74
West Midlands -19 26 £67,500 +17.39% 39
South West +5 21 £52,500 -12.50% 51
East Midlands -8 17 £62,500 +4.17% 24
East of England -20 13 £68,250 +36.50% 24
Yorkshire -5 11 £75,000 +20.00% 22
Scotland +29 10 £38,500 -35.83% 27
Northern Ireland 0 3 £87,500 +52.17% 9
Presales
UK

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (1.87%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.87%) Appian
1 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.50%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) CMS
3 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.62%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 31 (11.61%) Oracle SCM
2 9 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (2.62%) NetSuite
4 5 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.22%) Azure
2 39 (14.61%) OCI
3 21 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (7.12%) AWS
5 17 (6.37%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.49%) GCP
7 11 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.62%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (2.62%) SaaS
9 6 (2.25%) IaaS
10 5 (1.87%) MinIO
10 5 (1.87%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.50%) GitHub
11 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.50%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 51 (19.10%) Firewall
2 50 (18.73%) WAN
3 45 (16.85%) LAN
4 26 (9.74%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (5.24%) Cisco Firepower
6 12 (4.49%) VPN
7 10 (3.75%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.62%) BGP
8 7 (2.62%) OSPF
8 7 (2.62%) SAN
8 7 (2.62%) Wireless
9 6 (2.25%) MPLS
9 6 (2.25%) NetScaler
10 5 (1.87%) ADSL
10 5 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.87%) LoRaWAN
10 5 (1.87%) Modbus
10 5 (1.87%) Network Security
10 5 (1.87%) VLAN
11 3 (1.12%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (2.62%) Power BI
2 5 (1.87%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.87%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.75%) Flink
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) Airbyte
6 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) Metadata
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Robot Framework
1 5 (1.87%) Selenium
1 5 (1.87%) Snyk
1 5 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.50%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 125 (46.82%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.10%) Presentation Skills
3 30 (11.24%) Finance
4 24 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.49%) Marketing
7 11 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.37%) Law
8 9 (3.37%) Legal
9 6 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Banking
10 5 (1.87%) Electronics
11 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.12%) Czech Language
12 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.12%) Police
13 2 (0.75%) Retail
14 1 (0.37%) Back Office
14 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 69 (25.84%) Consultant
2 59 (22.10%) Architect
3 38 (14.23%) Oracle Consultant
4 33 (12.36%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.11%) Junior
6 24 (8.99%) Senior
7 22 (8.24%) Junior Architect
7 22 (8.24%) Junior Solutions Architect
8 20 (7.49%) Support Engineer
9 16 (5.99%) Presales Consultant
10 14 (5.24%) Presales Engineer
11 13 (4.87%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (4.49%) 3rd Line Support
12 12 (4.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 12 (4.49%) Lead
13 11 (4.12%) Cisco Engineer
13 11 (4.12%) Technical Engineer
14 10 (3.75%) Data Architect
15 8 (3.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.25%) React
2 5 (1.87%) .NET
2 5 (1.87%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (1.87%) Kafka
2 5 (1.87%) SAML
3 4 (1.50%) Next.js
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.12%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.12%) HTML
5 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.37%) CSS
6 1 (0.37%) HTML5
6 1 (0.37%) MACH
6 1 (0.37%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (5.62%) Driving Licence
3 11 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.00%) PKI
5 8 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.62%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.62%) PMI
6 7 (2.62%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.25%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.25%) Tandem
8 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.12%) Lidar
10 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.12%) Windows
2 7 (2.62%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.87%) Linux
4 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (13.48%) Business Development
2 33 (12.36%) Project Management
3 32 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (10.86%) Agile
6 27 (10.11%) Project Delivery
7 20 (7.49%) Mentoring
8 19 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence
8 19 (7.12%) CRM
8 19 (7.12%) Roadmaps
9 18 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (6.37%) Customer Requirements
10 17 (6.37%) Software Engineering
11 16 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (5.62%) Customer Service
13 14 (5.24%) CI/CD
13 14 (5.24%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (4.87%) DevOps
15 11 (4.12%) Analytics
15 11 (4.12%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.24%) Python
2 9 (3.37%) SQL
3 6 (2.25%) C#
3 6 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.50%) Bash
4 4 (1.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.12%) Scala
5 3 (1.12%) Swift
5 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.75%) VBA
7 1 (0.37%) Bicep
7 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 57 (21.35%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (17.60%) CCNA
3 28 (10.49%) Degree
4 24 (8.99%) CCNP
4 24 (8.99%) Security Cleared
5 22 (8.24%) JNCIA
6 9 (3.37%) CCIE
6 9 (3.37%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.00%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.00%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.62%) CISSP
9 6 (2.25%) CISM
9 6 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (1.87%) CCDA
10 5 (1.87%) CCDP
10 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.50%) CEH
11 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.50%) HNC
11 4 (1.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.12%) QA
2 7 (2.62%) NIST
3 6 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.87%) GDPR
4 5 (1.87%) SLA
5 4 (1.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.37%) PMO
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.75%) Docker
6 1 (0.37%) KVM
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.12%) Ansible
2 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.62%) Terraform
4 5 (1.87%) CASB
4 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (1.50%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.50%) QRadar
6 3 (1.12%) Automic
7 2 (0.75%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.37%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (24.34%) Cisco
2 54 (20.22%) Fortinet
3 46 (17.23%) Microsoft
3 46 (17.23%) Oracle
4 45 (16.85%) Palo Alto
5 39 (14.61%) Juniper
6 36 (13.48%) Aruba
7 33 (12.36%) IBM
8 24 (8.99%) Meraki
9 23 (8.61%) VMware
10 14 (5.24%) Dell
10 14 (5.24%) Salesforce
11 10 (3.75%) HP
12 9 (3.37%) Veeam
13 8 (3.00%) Ekahau
14 7 (2.62%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.62%) Sophos
15 6 (2.25%) Citrix
15 6 (2.25%) Extreme Networks
15 6 (2.25%) Google