Presales Jobs

Presales
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 316 163 146
Rank change year-on-year -153 -17 +99
Permanent jobs citing Presales 493 1,808 2,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.75% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 2.08% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 324 991 917
10th Percentile £35,225 £26,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -20.65% +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,625 £97,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Presales in the UK

Presales
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the UK 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
England -160 432 £67,500 +12.50% 7,092
UK excluding London -166 260 £57,500 +15.00% 7,206
London -41 166 £90,000 +12.50% 701
Work from Home -250 131 £72,500 +17.89% 3,710
South East -75 122 £60,000 +33.33% 1,948
North of England -119 52 £57,500 +31.43% 1,565
Midlands -33 43 £65,000 +13.04% 1,393
North West -124 42 £57,500 +35.29% 739
West Midlands -20 26 £67,500 +17.39% 742
East Midlands -4 17 £62,500 +4.17% 561
South West -6 17 £53,750 -10.42% 864
East of England -23 13 £68,250 +36.50% 1,104
Scotland +28 10 £38,500 -35.83% 299
Yorkshire -1 10 £70,000 +15.70% 641
Northern Ireland +1 3 £87,500 +52.17% 97

Presales
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.01%) Apache
3 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.01%) Appian
3 5 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (2.84%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 35 (7.10%) Oracle SCM
2 19 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.83%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (1.42%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.61%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.41%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle HRMS
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle iRecruitment
9 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.20%) SAP FSCM
9 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 121 (24.54%) Azure
2 70 (14.20%) AWS
3 50 (10.14%) OCI
4 46 (9.33%) GCP
5 35 (7.10%) Power Platform
6 31 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.29%) SaaS
7 17 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (3.04%) IaaS
9 11 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (2.23%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (2.03%) PaaS
10 10 (2.03%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.83%) Pulumi
12 8 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.42%) GitHub
13 7 (1.42%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 60 (12.17%) Firewall
2 54 (10.95%) WAN
3 48 (9.74%) LAN
4 28 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (3.04%) VPN
6 14 (2.84%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (2.43%) SD-WAN
8 10 (2.03%) Network Security
9 9 (1.83%) Wireless
10 8 (1.62%) BGP
10 8 (1.62%) SAN
11 7 (1.42%) MPLS
11 7 (1.42%) NetScaler
11 7 (1.42%) OSPF
12 6 (1.22%) Internet
12 6 (1.22%) VLAN
13 5 (1.01%) ADSL
13 5 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (1.01%) DNS
13 5 (1.01%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.43%) Power BI
3 8 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.22%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.81%) KDB
6 4 (0.81%) Kdb+
7 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.61%) Big Data
7 3 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Robot Framework
1 5 (1.01%) Selenium
1 5 (1.01%) Snyk
1 5 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (0.81%) JIRA
3 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.20%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) GitLab
General
1 232 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 115 (23.33%) Presentation Skills
3 93 (18.86%) Finance
4 52 (10.55%) Marketing
5 46 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 43 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.46%) Law
8 20 (4.06%) Legal
9 13 (2.64%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.23%) Banking
12 10 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.03%) Retail
13 8 (1.62%) Billing
14 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.22%) Back Office
15 6 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.22%) Electronics
15 6 (1.22%) Front Office
15 6 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (27.99%) Consultant
2 127 (25.76%) Architect
3 68 (13.79%) Senior
4 64 (12.98%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (10.34%) Oracle Consultant
6 34 (6.90%) Presales Consultant
7 31 (6.29%) Lead
8 26 (5.27%) Senior Consultant
9 25 (5.07%) Junior
10 22 (4.46%) Junior Architect
10 22 (4.46%) Junior Solutions Architect
11 19 (3.85%) Support Engineer
12 18 (3.65%) Project Manager
13 16 (3.25%) Solutions Consultant
14 15 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (3.04%) Data Architect
14 15 (3.04%) Presales Engineer
15 14 (2.84%) Senior Manager
16 13 (2.64%) Network Engineer
16 13 (2.64%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.03%) .NET
2 9 (1.83%) Loki
3 7 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.22%) HTML
4 6 (1.22%) Kafka
4 6 (1.22%) React
4 6 (1.22%) XML
5 5 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (1.01%) SAML
6 4 (0.81%) CSS
6 4 (0.81%) JSON
6 4 (0.81%) Next.js
6 4 (0.81%) SOAP
7 3 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.61%) FastAPI
7 3 (0.61%) Web Services
8 2 (0.41%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.41%) EJB
8 2 (0.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (5.07%) Data Centre
3 22 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.04%) Driving Licence
5 15 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.03%) PKI
8 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Licensing
8 9 (1.83%) Tandem
9 8 (1.62%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.42%) Life Science
10 7 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.42%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.42%) PMI
10 7 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.45%) Windows
2 10 (2.03%) Linux
3 9 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) CentOS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (15.62%) Business Development
2 69 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (12.78%) Agile
3 63 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 60 (12.17%) Customer Requirements
5 55 (11.16%) Project Management
6 54 (10.95%) Mentoring
7 53 (10.75%) Roadmaps
8 51 (10.34%) Project Delivery
9 42 (8.52%) Analytics
10 40 (8.11%) CRM
11 38 (7.71%) Migration
12 37 (7.51%) Artificial Intelligence
13 35 (7.10%) Thought Leadership
14 32 (6.49%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (5.88%) DevOps
16 28 (5.68%) Data Integration
17 26 (5.27%) Collaborative Working
17 26 (5.27%) Decision-Making
17 26 (5.27%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.91%) SQL
2 37 (7.51%) Python
3 13 (2.64%) Bash
4 12 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.23%) Go
6 9 (1.83%) C#
6 9 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.61%) Java
9 3 (0.61%) Scala
9 3 (0.61%) Swift
9 3 (0.61%) VBA
10 2 (0.41%) Bicep
10 2 (0.41%) C
10 2 (0.41%) R
11 1 (0.20%) ABAP
11 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.20%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 70 (14.20%) Degree
2 62 (12.58%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 48 (9.74%) CCNA
5 27 (5.48%) CCNP
6 25 (5.07%) SC Cleared
7 22 (4.46%) JNCIA
8 19 (3.85%) Azure Certification
9 14 (2.84%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.84%) PMI Certification
10 11 (2.23%) CISSP
11 10 (2.03%) CISM
12 9 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.83%) CCIE
12 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.42%) PMP
14 6 (1.22%) CEH
14 6 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.27%) QA
2 11 (2.23%) NIST
3 9 (1.83%) GDPR
4 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.01%) SLA
6 4 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) COBIT
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.81%) Docker
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.20%) KVM
8 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.65%) Kubernetes
1 18 (3.65%) Terraform
2 12 (2.43%) Ansible
3 9 (1.83%) Grafana
4 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.01%) CASB
5 5 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (0.81%) Automic
6 4 (0.81%) QRadar
7 2 (0.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.41%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.20%) HP UCMDB
8 1 (0.20%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 79 (16.02%) Oracle
3 76 (15.42%) Cisco
4 57 (11.56%) Fortinet
5 49 (9.94%) Palo Alto
6 43 (8.72%) Juniper
7 38 (7.71%) Aruba
7 38 (7.71%) IBM
8 26 (5.27%) VMware
9 24 (4.87%) Salesforce
10 23 (4.67%) Meraki
11 17 (3.45%) SAP
12 16 (3.25%) Dell
13 14 (2.84%) Google
14 13 (2.64%) ServiceNow
15 12 (2.43%) HP
16 10 (2.03%) Databricks
17 9 (1.83%) Hitachi
17 9 (1.83%) Veeam
18 8 (1.62%) Ekahau