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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 136 263
Rank change year-on-year -18 +127 -84
Permanent jobs citing Presales 1,561 2,094 2,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 2.60% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 2.72% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 870 751 1,793
10th Percentile £24,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Presales in the UK

Presales
Top 18 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 26 July 2024. 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 -16 1,257 £61,500 -18.00% 163
UK excluding London -17 1,037 £50,000 -23.08% 135
Work from Home +10 924 £62,500 -16.67% 88
London -47 346 £80,000 -3.03% 52
South East +56 332 £45,000 -25.00% 46
North of England -40 218 £62,500 - 27
Midlands -5 169 £65,000 -5.45% 20
North West -33 162 £62,500 -5.66% 10
South West +8 120 £56,250 -29.69% 21
West Midlands +38 109 £72,500 +11.54% 17
Scotland -100 86 £65,000 -13.33% 11
Yorkshire +26 64 £75,000 +30.43% 11
East of England +16 56 £57,500 +7.98% 12
East Midlands -57 56 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Wales -4 42 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Northern Ireland -11 33 £85,000 - 5
North East -17 4 £62,500 +83.82% 6
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -

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 97 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (1.86%) CMS
3 29 (1.86%) Umbraco
4 26 (1.67%) Headless CMS
4 26 (1.67%) IIS
4 26 (1.67%) Kentico
4 26 (1.67%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.26%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.064%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.064%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.064%) Confluence
8 1 (0.064%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 25 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.58%) AutoCAD
2 9 (0.58%) Autodesk Inventor
2 9 (0.58%) Fusion 360
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.19%) Revit
7 2 (0.13%) PrintSoft PReS
8 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 58 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 26 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (1.28%) NEC Housing
5 13 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Payroll
8 5 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.32%) SAP FI-AP
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Manufacturing
Cloud Services
1 451 (28.89%) Azure
2 256 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
3 255 (16.34%) AWS
4 135 (8.65%) SaaS
5 112 (7.17%) Dynamics 365
6 111 (7.11%) GCP
7 100 (6.41%) Power Platform
8 75 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (3.14%) Entra ID
10 39 (2.50%) OCI
11 32 (2.05%) PowerApps
12 26 (1.67%) Kontent
12 26 (1.67%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (1.28%) Figma
15 19 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 17 (1.09%) PaaS
17 16 (1.02%) IaaS
18 14 (0.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 125 (8.01%) WAN
2 100 (6.41%) SD-WAN
3 84 (5.38%) Firewall
4 65 (4.16%) LAN
5 47 (3.01%) Wireless
6 39 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
7 34 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 25 (1.60%) VLAN
10 24 (1.54%) VPN
11 22 (1.41%) Network Security
12 20 (1.28%) DNS
13 17 (1.09%) WLAN
14 15 (0.96%) BGP
14 15 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
15 14 (0.90%) DHCP
15 14 (0.90%) Internet
16 12 (0.77%) MPLS
16 12 (0.77%) SAN
16 12 (0.77%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (3.20%) Data Lake
3 47 (3.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 37 (2.37%) Power BI
5 25 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 16 (1.02%) Metadata
8 9 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.51%) Big Data
9 8 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (0.32%) QlikView
10 5 (0.32%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.26%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.26%) DTS
11 4 (0.26%) MySQL
11 4 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (1.79%) JIRA
2 20 (1.28%) Visual Studio
3 18 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.38%) Git
5 4 (0.26%) Jenkins
General
1 421 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 252 (16.14%) Finance
3 238 (15.25%) Presentation Skills
4 117 (7.50%) Marketing
5 92 (5.89%) Billing
6 65 (4.16%) Public Sector
7 55 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
8 51 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (2.75%) Retail
10 38 (2.43%) Local Government
11 30 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (1.86%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.60%) Law
14 24 (1.54%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.54%) Social Housing
15 22 (1.41%) Police
16 21 (1.35%) Legal
17 18 (1.15%) German Language
18 14 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 510 (32.67%) Architect
2 334 (21.40%) Consultant
3 246 (15.76%) Senior
4 205 (13.13%) Solutions Architect
5 139 (8.90%) Project Manager
6 111 (7.11%) Presales Manager
7 104 (6.66%) Cloud Architect
8 80 (5.12%) Senior Consultant
9 79 (5.06%) Senior Architect
10 70 (4.48%) Technical Consultant
11 67 (4.29%) Presales Solution Architect
12 64 (4.10%) Presales Consultant
13 61 (3.91%) Lead
14 56 (3.59%) Security Architect
15 51 (3.27%) Cisco Architect
15 51 (3.27%) Data Consultant
15 51 (3.27%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 51 (3.27%) Senior Cisco Architect
16 47 (3.01%) Senior Technology Consultant
16 47 (3.01%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (4.55%) .NET
2 42 (2.69%) .NET Core
3 35 (2.24%) React
4 30 (1.92%) RESTful
5 29 (1.86%) ASP.NET
5 29 (1.86%) Next.js
6 26 (1.67%) .NET Framework
6 26 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 17 (1.09%) HTML
8 12 (0.77%) CSS
9 11 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (0.51%) REST
10 8 (0.51%) SOAP
10 8 (0.51%) Web Services
11 7 (0.45%) Node.js
12 6 (0.38%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.32%) JSON
14 4 (0.26%) Apache Beam
14 4 (0.26%) Kafka
14 4 (0.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 198 (12.68%) Data Centre
2 160 (10.25%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (8.97%) Public Cloud
4 93 (5.96%) Video Conferencing
5 91 (5.83%) Digital Signage
6 89 (5.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 84 (5.38%) PKI
8 48 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (2.63%) Cloud Native
10 35 (2.24%) Private Cloud
11 34 (2.18%) IoT
11 34 (2.18%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.67%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.60%) Driving Licence
13 25 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.60%) Mobile App
14 23 (1.47%) FMCG
15 14 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.77%) Client/Server
16 12 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.47%) Windows
2 37 (2.37%) Linux
3 33 (2.11%) Windows 10
4 28 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.51%) Unix
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.19%) Windows 8
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.13%) Mesosphere
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.064%) Android
9 1 (0.064%) CentOS
9 1 (0.064%) Debian
9 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.064%) SUSE
9 1 (0.064%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (19.92%) Project Management
2 290 (18.58%) Agile
3 288 (18.45%) Actionable Insight
4 239 (15.31%) Project Delivery
5 209 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
6 174 (11.15%) Roadmaps
7 172 (11.02%) Software Delivery
8 158 (10.12%) TOGAF
9 154 (9.87%) Migration
9 154 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
10 147 (9.42%) Customer Service
11 144 (9.22%) Customer Requirements
12 136 (8.71%) Software Licensing
13 132 (8.46%) SDLC
14 128 (8.20%) DevOps
15 120 (7.69%) CRM
16 118 (7.56%) Time Management
17 115 (7.37%) Agile Project Management
18 105 (6.73%) Logistics
19 102 (6.53%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 88 (5.64%) C#
2 64 (4.10%) JavaScript
3 56 (3.59%) SQL
4 46 (2.95%) Python
5 23 (1.47%) Java
6 22 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 13 (0.83%) Bash
7 13 (0.83%) Bicep
8 8 (0.51%) C
9 7 (0.45%) C++
10 4 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.19%) R
12 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.064%) Fortran
13 1 (0.064%) Go
13 1 (0.064%) Perl
13 1 (0.064%) Ruby
13 1 (0.064%) X++
Qualifications
1 272 (17.42%) Degree
2 192 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 120 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 70 (4.48%) CCNP
6 69 (4.42%) Azure Certification
6 69 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 65 (4.16%) CCNA
8 54 (3.46%) AWS Certification
9 43 (2.75%) DV Cleared
10 36 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (2.24%) DBS Check
12 29 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (1.67%) MCP
14 21 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (1.09%) MCSE
16 10 (0.64%) CEH
16 10 (0.64%) CISSP
16 10 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.58%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.73%) SLA
2 37 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.05%) COBIT
4 24 (1.54%) QA
5 21 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.28%) GDPR
7 17 (1.09%) PMO
8 15 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.77%) NCSC
10 9 (0.58%) NIST
11 8 (0.51%) GRC
12 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.26%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.13%) GAMP
15 2 (0.13%) GMP
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 1 (0.064%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.064%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 97 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.88%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.38%) Docker
5 6 (0.38%) NFS
6 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) vCloud
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.064%) KVM
Systems Management
1 43 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.31%) Stealthwatch
3 32 (2.05%) OpenView
4 16 (1.02%) CASB
5 11 (0.70%) Ansible
6 10 (0.64%) Terraform
7 8 (0.51%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.26%) Grafana
8 4 (0.26%) SCCM
9 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.13%) Aspera SmartTrack
9 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
9 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) SmoothWall
9 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.064%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 583 (37.35%) Microsoft
2 140 (8.97%) Adobe
3 139 (8.90%) Apple
4 120 (7.69%) Cisco
5 86 (5.51%) Google
5 86 (5.51%) Meraki
6 79 (5.06%) VMware
7 73 (4.68%) Oracle
8 72 (4.61%) Dell
9 70 (4.48%) HP
10 44 (2.82%) SAP
11 42 (2.69%) Aruba
11 42 (2.69%) ServiceNow
12 36 (2.31%) BMC
13 34 (2.18%) Remedy
14 32 (2.05%) Fortinet
14 32 (2.05%) Samsung
15 26 (1.67%) Optimizely
15 26 (1.67%) Salesforce
15 26 (1.67%) Sitecore