Hybrid/Remote Presales Job Trends

Presales
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Presales skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 187 185
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -39
Permanent jobs citing Presales 184 297 469
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.17% 1.82% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.93% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 121 142 323
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -18.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,689 15,415 23,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.83% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,688 9,091 19,584
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Presales and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Presales job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Presales
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Presales.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Presales

Presales
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Presales over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Presales salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Presales
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 12 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.89%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.63%) Confluence
3 3 (1.63%) HCL Domino
3 3 (1.63%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
4 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Avid Media Composer
1 2 (1.09%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 16 (8.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.63%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.54%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.54%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.54%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.54%) Azure
2 40 (21.74%) SaaS
3 32 (17.39%) AWS
4 18 (9.78%) GCP
5 17 (9.24%) Power Platform
5 17 (9.24%) Snowflake
6 11 (5.98%) Serverless
7 9 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.80%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (3.80%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (3.80%) Dagster
8 7 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.80%) Vertex AI
9 6 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.26%) dbt
9 6 (3.26%) Matillion
10 4 (2.17%) Alation
10 4 (2.17%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (2.17%) GitHub
10 4 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) SD-WAN
1 9 (4.89%) WAN
2 5 (2.72%) MPLS
3 3 (1.63%) Firewall
3 3 (1.63%) LAN
3 3 (1.63%) Network Security
3 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.09%) VoIP
5 1 (0.54%) ATM
5 1 (0.54%) BGP
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.54%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.54%) Frame Relay
5 1 (0.54%) IGMP
5 1 (0.54%) OSPF
5 1 (0.54%) SNMP
5 1 (0.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.54%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.98%) BigQuery
2 11 (5.98%) Tableau
3 9 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.89%) Power BI
4 7 (3.80%) Apache Iceberg
4 7 (3.80%) Delta Lake
4 7 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.80%) Looker
4 7 (3.80%) Pinecone
4 7 (3.80%) Weaviate
5 6 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.17%) DataStage
6 4 (2.17%) Metadata
6 4 (2.17%) QlikView
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.09%) Big Data
7 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.80%) MLflow
2 5 (2.72%) JIRA
3 4 (2.17%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.17%) ERwin
3 4 (2.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 66 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.65%) Finance
3 30 (16.30%) Public Sector
4 27 (14.67%) Marketing
5 15 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (7.61%) Retail
7 10 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (3.26%) Banking
10 6 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Law
11 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.63%) Advertising
12 3 (1.63%) Billing
12 3 (1.63%) German Language
12 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Local Government
14 1 (0.54%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 64 (34.78%) Architect
2 49 (26.63%) Consultant
3 45 (24.46%) Solutions Architect
4 28 (15.22%) Senior
5 15 (8.15%) Lead
5 15 (8.15%) Senior Consultant
6 12 (6.52%) Integration Architect
6 12 (6.52%) Presales Consultant
7 11 (5.98%) Technical Architect
8 10 (5.43%) Azure Architect
8 10 (5.43%) Data Consultant
8 10 (5.43%) ITSM Architect
8 10 (5.43%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.89%) IT Consultant
9 9 (4.89%) Presales Solution Architect
9 9 (4.89%) SAP Architect
9 9 (4.89%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.35%) Senior Architect
11 7 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 6 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.80%) Faiss
1 7 (3.80%) PyTorch
1 7 (3.80%) SAP Fiori
1 7 (3.80%) TensorFlow
1 7 (3.80%) vLLM
2 3 (1.63%) EDI
3 2 (1.09%) .NET
3 2 (1.09%) PySpark
3 2 (1.09%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.54%) REST
4 1 (0.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.43%) Web Conferencing
3 8 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.72%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.17%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.63%) Blog
7 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.09%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.09%) BBC
8 2 (1.09%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.09%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.72%) Windows
2 3 (1.63%) Linux
3 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 45 (24.46%) AI
3 38 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (15.22%) Project Delivery
6 26 (14.13%) Decision-Making
7 23 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
8 22 (11.96%) Agile
8 22 (11.96%) Mentoring
8 22 (11.96%) Service Delivery
9 21 (11.41%) Migration
10 20 (10.87%) CI/CD
10 20 (10.87%) Workshop Facilitation
11 19 (10.33%) ITSM
12 18 (9.78%) Business Development
12 18 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (9.24%) Analytics
13 17 (9.24%) Computer Science
13 17 (9.24%) Data Engineering
13 17 (9.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.61%) SQL
2 13 (7.07%) Python
3 8 (4.35%) Java
4 7 (3.80%) Bash
4 7 (3.80%) Go
4 7 (3.80%) Scala
5 2 (1.09%) R
6 1 (0.54%) ABAP
6 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.30%) Degree
3 26 (14.13%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.80%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.72%) CCNA
9 5 (2.72%) SAP Certification
10 4 (2.17%) CISM
10 4 (2.17%) CISMP
10 4 (2.17%) CISSP
10 4 (2.17%) CRISC
10 4 (2.17%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.17%) HNC
10 4 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (5.43%) QA
2 8 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.72%) GDPR
3 5 (2.72%) GRC
3 5 (2.72%) NIST
4 4 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.17%) JSP 440
4 4 (2.17%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.63%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) GAAP
6 1 (0.54%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (4.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Firmware
2 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.89%) Terraform
2 6 (3.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.09%) Autotask
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.54%) OpenView
4 1 (0.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 29 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.13%) SAP
3 12 (6.52%) Cisco
4 11 (5.98%) Databricks
5 10 (5.43%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.80%) Google
6 7 (3.80%) IBM
6 7 (3.80%) Palantir
7 4 (2.17%) Informatica
7 4 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.63%) Ariba
8 3 (1.63%) Juniper
8 3 (1.63%) Lotus
9 2 (1.09%) Avid
9 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.09%) Panasonic
9 2 (1.09%) Ribbon
9 2 (1.09%) Sage
9 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.09%) Sony