Presales Engineer Jobs

Presales Engineer
UK

The median Presales Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 691 855 945
Rank change year-on-year +164 +90 +216
Permanent jobs requiring a Presales Engineer 15 43 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.043% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.046% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 8 33 33
10th Percentile £48,250 £41,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -23.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £80,313 £61,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £64,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +29.63% -19.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,511 93,886 92,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,626 67,255 58,266
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Presales Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Presales Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Presales Engineer in the UK

Presales Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Presales Engineer.

Salary trend for Presales Engineer in the UK

Presales Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Presales Engineer in the UK

Presales Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +137 12 £55,000 -4.35% 44
UK excluding London +175 11 £55,000 +4.76% 27
East of England +39 6 - - 4
South West - 3 £55,000 - 5
Work from Home +120 2 £83,750 +45.65% 20
South East +93 1 £75,000 +66.67% 10
London +90 1 £92,500 +60.87% 24
Midlands +62 1 £42,500 -32.00% 2
East Midlands - 1 £42,500 -

Presales Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Presales Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Presales Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Presales
2 8 (53.33%) Private Cloud
3 7 (46.67%) Public Cloud
3 7 (46.67%) Citrix
3 7 (46.67%) Tandem
3 7 (46.67%) NetScaler
4 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
5 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Ansible
5 3 (20.00%) VPN
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (13.33%) CCNP
6 2 (13.33%) CCNA
6 2 (13.33%) CCDA
6 2 (13.33%) CCDP
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (13.33%) Juniper
6 2 (13.33%) Linux
6 2 (13.33%) ADSL
6 2 (13.33%) WAN
6 2 (13.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (13.33%) MPLS
6 2 (13.33%) Firewall
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
6 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (13.33%) Docker
6 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds

Presales Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) NetScaler
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) ADSL
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (13.33%) Modbus
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Private Cloud
2 7 (46.67%) Public Cloud
2 7 (46.67%) Tandem
3 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Presales
2 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (13.33%) Network Design
3 2 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (6.67%) Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) CRM
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (6.67%) Product Management
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Storytelling
4 1 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCDA
1 2 (13.33%) CCDP
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) CCNP
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) CASB
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Citrix
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Aerohive Networks
3 2 (13.33%) Ekahau
3 2 (13.33%) Extreme Networks
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) Meraki
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) VMware