Presales
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Presales skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 268 206
Rank change year-on-year +92 -62 -18
Permanent jobs citing Presales 1,081 538 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.21% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.31% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 709 352 1,046
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,275 £27,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +9.76% -20.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.22% +15.00% -23.08%

All Process & 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 67,701 41,203 88,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.64% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46,469 21,965 62,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Presales job vacancy trend in the UK

Presales
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Presales.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Presales

Presales
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Presales in the UK

Presales
Top 17 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 14 June 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
England +75 887 £71,500 +5.93% 419
UK excluding London +51 507 £66,250 +15.22% 223
London +91 371 £82,500 -8.33% 220
Work from Home +140 344 £75,000 +3.45% 214
North of England +49 146 £65,000 +13.04% 59
Midlands +40 114 £70,000 +7.69% 33
North West +50 105 £65,000 +13.04% 39
South East -42 102 £57,500 -4.17% 86
West Midlands +27 75 £67,500 - 26
East of England +29 68 £67,500 +3.85% 10
East Midlands -3 39 £70,000 +16.67% 7
South West -40 37 £75,000 +100.00% 19
Yorkshire -21 35 £70,000 -6.67% 16
Wales - 18 £42,500 - 6
Scotland +23 17 £72,500 +126.56% 9
North East - 6 £45,000 - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 39 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 29 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.74%) Confluence
6 2 (0.19%) Apache
7 1 (0.093%) Appian
7 1 (0.093%) CMS
7 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.19%) Avid Media Composer
6 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.19%) Pro Tools
6 2 (0.19%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.46%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.28%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.19%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.093%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.093%) HFM
6 1 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.093%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.093%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.093%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.093%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.093%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.093%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 239 (22.11%) Azure
2 151 (13.97%) AWS
3 98 (9.07%) GCP
4 81 (7.49%) Power Platform
5 80 (7.40%) SaaS
6 64 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (4.16%) Snowflake
8 34 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (2.87%) Nutanix
10 30 (2.78%) dbt
11 24 (2.22%) IaaS
12 23 (2.13%) Entra ID
13 21 (1.94%) Serverless
14 20 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (1.57%) PaaS
16 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (1.30%) Azure AI
17 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
17 14 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 87 (8.05%) Firewall
2 70 (6.48%) WAN
3 58 (5.37%) LAN
4 39 (3.61%) SD-WAN
5 37 (3.42%) Network Security
6 33 (3.05%) VPN
7 25 (2.31%) VSAN
7 25 (2.31%) Wireless
8 20 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (1.67%) VLAN
9 18 (1.67%) VoIP
10 13 (1.20%) DNS
10 13 (1.20%) Unified Communications
11 12 (1.11%) MPLS
12 11 (1.02%) WLAN
13 10 (0.93%) DECT
13 10 (0.93%) PBX
14 9 (0.83%) DHCP
14 9 (0.83%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.26%) Power BI
2 45 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (3.61%) Data Lake
4 35 (3.24%) Tableau
5 33 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (3.05%) Looker
6 32 (2.96%) BigQuery
7 31 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
9 15 (1.39%) DTS
10 14 (1.30%) Delta Lake
11 9 (0.83%) Metadata
11 9 (0.83%) SAP HANA
12 8 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (0.74%) Pinecone
12 8 (0.74%) Weaviate
13 7 (0.65%) Big Data
13 7 (0.65%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.28%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 38 (3.52%) MLflow
2 9 (0.83%) JIRA
3 5 (0.46%) Git
4 4 (0.37%) GitLab
4 4 (0.37%) JUnit
4 4 (0.37%) Maven
4 4 (0.37%) Mockito
5 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.28%) Snyk
6 1 (0.093%) Appium
6 1 (0.093%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.093%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.093%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.093%) fastlane
6 1 (0.093%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.093%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.093%) Selenium
General
1 345 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 163 (15.08%) Finance
3 130 (12.03%) Marketing
4 80 (7.40%) Presentation Skills
4 80 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 64 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (4.90%) Manufacturing
7 50 (4.63%) Retail
8 40 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 38 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.05%) Law
11 24 (2.22%) Games
12 23 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.67%) Banking
14 17 (1.57%) Legal
15 14 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.93%) Local Government
18 7 (0.65%) German Language
Job Titles
1 309 (28.58%) Consultant
2 273 (25.25%) Architect
3 178 (16.47%) Senior
4 177 (16.37%) Solutions Architect
5 103 (9.53%) Presales Consultant
6 97 (8.97%) Presales Solution Architect
7 66 (6.11%) Lead
8 59 (5.46%) Solutions Consultant
9 55 (5.09%) Senior Consultant
9 55 (5.09%) Technical Consultant
10 53 (4.90%) Presales Engineer
11 42 (3.89%) Cloud Consultant
12 35 (3.24%) Account Manager
13 34 (3.15%) Infrastructure Consultant
14 33 (3.05%) Network Architect
15 29 (2.68%) Senior Architect
16 26 (2.41%) Principal Consultant
16 26 (2.41%) Senior Manager
16 26 (2.41%) Technical Presales Consultant
17 25 (2.31%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.33%) PyTorch
1 36 (3.33%) TensorFlow
2 28 (2.59%) LangChain
3 27 (2.50%) Kafka
4 24 (2.22%) scikit-learn
5 23 (2.13%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (2.13%) pgvector
6 18 (1.67%) REST
7 14 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
8 11 (1.02%) SOAP
9 8 (0.74%) Faiss
9 8 (0.74%) vLLM
10 7 (0.65%) PySpark
10 7 (0.65%) React
10 7 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
11 6 (0.56%) .NET
12 5 (0.46%) LangGraph
12 5 (0.46%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (0.37%) Keras
13 4 (0.37%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.99%) Data Centre
2 64 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 45 (4.16%) Public Cloud
5 38 (3.52%) Driving Licence
6 35 (3.24%) Web Conferencing
7 24 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (2.13%) Clustering
9 19 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.11%) CMDB
12 11 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.83%) Blog
14 9 (0.83%) Data Fabric
14 9 (0.83%) NHS
14 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.18%) Windows
2 31 (2.87%) Linux
3 18 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.46%) Android
5 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.093%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.093%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (18.13%) AI
2 134 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
3 129 (11.93%) Roadmaps
4 115 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
5 109 (10.08%) Business Development
5 109 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 105 (9.71%) Agile
7 100 (9.25%) Analytics
8 95 (8.79%) Mentoring
9 94 (8.70%) Customer Engagement
10 90 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 82 (7.59%) Workshop Facilitation
12 81 (7.49%) Project Delivery
13 76 (7.03%) Customer Requirements
14 74 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
15 71 (6.57%) DevOps
16 70 (6.48%) Use Case
17 69 (6.38%) Machine Learning
18 68 (6.29%) CRM
19 67 (6.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 69 (6.38%) Python
1 69 (6.38%) SQL
2 16 (1.48%) Java
3 14 (1.30%) Ladder Logic
4 13 (1.20%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.11%) Bash
5 12 (1.11%) Scala
6 9 (0.83%) Go
6 9 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.56%) C#
8 4 (0.37%) C++
8 4 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.28%) Bicep
10 2 (0.19%) PHP
10 2 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.093%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.093%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.093%) Ruby
11 1 (0.093%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 114 (10.55%) Degree
3 63 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
3 63 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 40 (3.70%) CCNP
5 34 (3.15%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 32 (2.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 31 (2.87%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.31%) CCIE
10 24 (2.22%) VCAP
11 22 (2.04%) CCNA
11 22 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (1.85%) VCDX
13 15 (1.39%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.30%) CISSP
15 13 (1.20%) CCSE
16 11 (1.02%) CISM
16 11 (1.02%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.61%) GDPR
2 28 (2.59%) QA
3 23 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 22 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.76%) GRC
6 18 (1.67%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.57%) PMO
8 13 (1.20%) NIST
9 8 (0.74%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.37%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.19%) GAAP
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.19%) NCSC
13 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.19%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 58 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.15%) vSphere
3 25 (2.31%) VMware NSX
4 24 (2.22%) Docker
5 17 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.48%) vCloud
7 6 (0.56%) KVM
8 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.093%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.093%) Lustre
10 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 26 (2.41%) Terraform
2 22 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.57%) Ansible
4 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.56%) Avamar
5 6 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
5 6 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (0.56%) EMC VPLEX
5 6 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.56%) VxRail
6 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.37%) Grafana
8 3 (0.28%) OpenView
8 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.28%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.19%) Argo
9 2 (0.19%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.093%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 204 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.79%) Cisco
3 84 (7.77%) Dell
4 67 (6.20%) VMware
5 65 (6.01%) Databricks
6 61 (5.64%) Fortinet
7 38 (3.52%) Oracle
8 36 (3.33%) SAP
9 34 (3.15%) Juniper
10 30 (2.78%) Aruba
11 29 (2.68%) Palo Alto
12 27 (2.50%) Broadcom
13 25 (2.31%) NetApp
14 24 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
15 23 (2.13%) Cloudera
16 22 (2.04%) Nimble Storage
16 22 (2.04%) ServiceNow
17 18 (1.67%) Salesforce
18 16 (1.48%) Meraki
19 14 (1.30%) Google