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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 273 159
Rank change year-on-year +111 -114 -6
Permanent jobs citing Presales 291 151 662
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.58% 1.03% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.09% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 219 122 445
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +13.82% -23.13%

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 15,256 13,894 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,822 8,909 23,455
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 11 May 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 14 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.03%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.69%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.69%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 82 (28.18%) Azure
2 58 (19.93%) AWS
3 36 (12.37%) SaaS
4 28 (9.62%) GCP
5 20 (6.87%) Snowflake
6 18 (6.19%) Nutanix
7 16 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (3.78%) Serverless
9 10 (3.44%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (3.09%) Dagster
10 9 (3.09%) Vertex AI
11 6 (2.06%) dbt
11 6 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.06%) Matillion
11 6 (2.06%) Mimecast
12 5 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.25%) WAN
2 19 (6.53%) SD-WAN
3 17 (5.84%) Firewall
4 16 (5.50%) LAN
5 15 (5.15%) VSAN
6 10 (3.44%) Network Security
7 8 (2.75%) MPLS
8 7 (2.41%) Wireless
9 5 (1.72%) Broadband
9 5 (1.72%) VPN
10 4 (1.37%) DNS
10 4 (1.37%) IPv6
11 3 (1.03%) DHCP
11 3 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.03%) iSCSI
11 3 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.03%) VoIP
11 3 (1.03%) WLAN
12 2 (0.69%) ATM
12 2 (0.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (3.09%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (3.09%) BigQuery
2 9 (3.09%) Delta Lake
2 9 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.09%) Looker
2 9 (3.09%) Pinecone
2 9 (3.09%) Tableau
2 9 (3.09%) Weaviate
3 7 (2.41%) Power BI
4 6 (2.06%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.34%) Big Data
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.09%) MLflow
2 6 (2.06%) JIRA
3 4 (1.37%) Git
4 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.69%) GitLab
4 2 (0.69%) JUnit
4 2 (0.69%) Maven
4 2 (0.69%) Mockito
4 2 (0.69%) Snyk
5 1 (0.34%) Appium
5 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 77 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.09%) Marketing
3 35 (12.03%) Finance
4 34 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.06%) Law
9 6 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.06%) Retail
9 6 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.72%) Banking
11 4 (1.37%) Advertising
11 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Games
12 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.03%) Local Government
13 2 (0.69%) German Language
13 2 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (31.62%) Architect
2 90 (30.93%) Consultant
3 67 (23.02%) Solutions Architect
4 60 (20.62%) Senior
5 33 (11.34%) Presales Solution Architect
6 30 (10.31%) Cloud Consultant
7 29 (9.97%) Senior Consultant
8 22 (7.56%) Solutions Consultant
9 20 (6.87%) Technical Consultant
10 19 (6.53%) Presales Consultant
11 18 (6.19%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 18 (6.19%) Senior Architect
11 18 (6.19%) Technical Architect
12 15 (5.15%) Account Manager
12 15 (5.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
12 15 (5.15%) Sales Executive
13 14 (4.81%) Presales Engineer
13 14 (4.81%) Senior Technical Consultant
14 13 (4.47%) Infrastructure Architect
15 12 (4.12%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.44%) PyTorch
1 10 (3.44%) TensorFlow
2 9 (3.09%) Faiss
2 9 (3.09%) vLLM
3 5 (1.72%) REST
4 4 (1.37%) React
4 4 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.03%) SOAP
6 2 (0.69%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.69%) Spring
7 1 (0.34%) .NET
7 1 (0.34%) HEVC
7 1 (0.34%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.34%) NumPy
7 1 (0.34%) Pandas
7 1 (0.34%) Playwright
7 1 (0.34%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.75%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.50%) Driving Licence
3 15 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.81%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.47%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.44%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.75%) Blog
8 6 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.06%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.72%) CMDB
9 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.72%) Life Science
10 3 (1.03%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.87%) Windows
2 16 (5.50%) Linux
3 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.34%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.34%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (18.90%) Roadmaps
2 49 (16.84%) AI
3 40 (13.75%) Project Delivery
4 39 (13.40%) Customer Engagement
5 38 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (10.65%) Workshop Facilitation
8 29 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (9.62%) Agile
10 27 (9.28%) Mentoring
11 24 (8.25%) Decision-Making
11 24 (8.25%) Project Management
11 24 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (8.25%) Use Case
12 23 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (7.22%) ITSM
13 21 (7.22%) Migration
14 20 (6.87%) CI/CD
14 20 (6.87%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (6.87%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.25%) SQL
2 19 (6.53%) Python
3 11 (3.78%) Java
4 10 (3.44%) Bash
5 9 (3.09%) Go
5 9 (3.09%) Scala
6 6 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.69%) PHP
7 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.69%) R
8 1 (0.34%) ABAP
8 1 (0.34%) C#
8 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.25%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.87%) Degree
5 18 (6.19%) CCNP
5 18 (6.19%) VCAP
5 18 (6.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 17 (5.84%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.15%) Azure Certification
8 14 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (4.81%) VCDX
9 9 (3.09%) CCIE
10 8 (2.75%) CCNA
11 6 (2.06%) CREST Certified
12 4 (1.37%) CCSE
12 4 (1.37%) LPIC
12 4 (1.37%) MCSE
12 4 (1.37%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.37%) SAP Certification
13 3 (1.03%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.78%) PMO
1 11 (3.78%) QA
2 10 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.09%) GDPR
4 6 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.72%) GRC
6 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.03%) GAAP
7 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.34%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 30 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (7.22%) vSphere
3 15 (5.15%) VMware NSX
4 14 (4.81%) vCloud
5 11 (3.78%) Docker
6 10 (3.44%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.34%) KVM
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (3.44%) Terraform
2 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.37%) Ansible
4 3 (1.03%) Avamar
4 3 (1.03%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (1.03%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.03%) VxRail
5 2 (0.69%) OpenView
5 2 (0.69%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.34%) Autotask
6 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 54 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.65%) VMware
3 27 (9.28%) Cisco
4 17 (5.84%) Dell
4 17 (5.84%) NetApp
4 17 (5.84%) Nimble Storage
5 16 (5.50%) SAP
6 15 (5.15%) Databricks
6 15 (5.15%) Fortinet
7 14 (4.81%) Broadcom
8 13 (4.47%) Palo Alto
9 11 (3.78%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.09%) Palantir
11 7 (2.41%) Juniper
12 6 (2.06%) Barracuda Networks
12 6 (2.06%) Google
12 6 (2.06%) Meraki
12 6 (2.06%) N-able
12 6 (2.06%) Sophos
13 5 (1.72%) CrowdStrike