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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 230 159
Rank change year-on-year +31 -71 -7
Permanent jobs citing Presales 197 193 623
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 1.38% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.45% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 130 113 445
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £58,688 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,375 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +17.89% -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 14,163 13,299 27,577
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.18% 95.33% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,242 8,824 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,415 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 March 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 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.52%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (1.02%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (1.02%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 13 (6.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.52%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.02%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.51%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.90%) Azure
2 37 (18.78%) AWS
3 32 (16.24%) SaaS
4 20 (10.15%) GCP
4 20 (10.15%) Snowflake
5 17 (8.63%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (5.08%) Serverless
7 9 (4.57%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (4.57%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (4.57%) Dagster
7 9 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.57%) Vertex AI
8 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.05%) dbt
8 6 (3.05%) Matillion
9 4 (2.03%) Asana
9 4 (2.03%) GitHub
9 4 (2.03%) Slack
9 4 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.63%) WAN
2 13 (6.60%) SD-WAN
3 10 (5.08%) LAN
4 8 (4.06%) MPLS
5 7 (3.55%) Firewall
6 5 (2.54%) Broadband
6 5 (2.54%) VPN
7 4 (2.03%) Network Security
7 4 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.52%) VoIP
9 2 (1.02%) ATM
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.02%) Frame Relay
9 2 (1.02%) SNMP
9 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.51%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (0.51%) VSAN
10 1 (0.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.60%) BigQuery
2 13 (6.60%) Tableau
3 10 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.57%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (4.57%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.57%) Looker
4 9 (4.57%) Pinecone
4 9 (4.57%) Power BI
4 9 (4.57%) Weaviate
5 5 (2.54%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.03%) DataStage
6 4 (2.03%) Metadata
6 4 (2.03%) QlikView
7 2 (1.02%) Big Data
7 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.57%) MLflow
2 6 (3.05%) JIRA
3 4 (2.03%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.03%) ERwin
3 4 (2.03%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.51%) Appium
4 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.51%) Git
4 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 63 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.75%) Finance
2 33 (16.75%) Marketing
3 27 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (6.60%) Retail
6 9 (4.57%) Law
7 8 (4.06%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.54%) Banking
8 5 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.03%) Advertising
9 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.03%) Games
9 4 (2.03%) German Language
9 4 (2.03%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.02%) Local Government
10 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (31.47%) Architect
2 60 (30.46%) Consultant
3 47 (23.86%) Solutions Architect
4 34 (17.26%) Senior
5 20 (10.15%) Senior Consultant
6 15 (7.61%) Presales Solution Architect
7 13 (6.60%) Presales Consultant
8 12 (6.09%) Data Consultant
8 12 (6.09%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.09%) Lead
9 10 (5.08%) ITSM Architect
9 10 (5.08%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.08%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (4.57%) IT Consultant
10 9 (4.57%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.06%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.06%) Cloud Consultant
11 8 (4.06%) Technical Engineer
12 7 (3.55%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.57%) Faiss
1 9 (4.57%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.57%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.57%) vLLM
2 5 (2.54%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.02%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.51%) Playwright
4 1 (0.51%) PySpark
4 1 (0.51%) REST
4 1 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.09%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.08%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.05%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (2.54%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.03%) Blog
6 4 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.03%) Life Science
6 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.03%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.02%) BBC
8 2 (1.02%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.02%) Video Editing
8 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.58%) Windows
2 9 (4.57%) Linux
3 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.51%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (21.83%) Roadmaps
2 41 (20.81%) AI
3 40 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (18.27%) Project Delivery
5 30 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (14.72%) Customer Engagement
7 26 (13.20%) Mentoring
8 24 (12.18%) Project Management
9 23 (11.68%) Migration
9 23 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (11.68%) Workshop Facilitation
10 22 (11.17%) Decision-Making
11 21 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (10.15%) Strategic Thinking
13 19 (9.64%) Business Development
13 19 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (9.64%) CI/CD
14 18 (9.14%) Agile
14 18 (9.14%) Computer Science
14 18 (9.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.12%) SQL
2 15 (7.61%) Python
3 10 (5.08%) Bash
4 9 (4.57%) Go
4 9 (4.57%) Java
4 9 (4.57%) Scala
5 2 (1.02%) R
6 1 (0.51%) ABAP
6 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.21%) Degree
3 22 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.61%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.08%) CCNP
7 7 (3.55%) CCNA
8 5 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.54%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.03%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.52%) CCIE
10 3 (1.52%) HNC
11 2 (1.02%) LPIC
11 2 (1.02%) MCSE
11 2 (1.02%) RHCSA
11 2 (1.02%) SAP Certification
11 2 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) QA
2 7 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.55%) GDPR
3 5 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.52%) NIST
6 2 (1.02%) GAAP
6 2 (1.02%) GRC
6 2 (1.02%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.51%) NCSC
7 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (5.08%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) vSphere
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) KVM
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (5.58%) Terraform
2 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) OpenView
3 2 (1.02%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Autotask
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.51%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.17%) SAP
3 16 (8.12%) Cisco
4 14 (7.11%) Databricks
5 10 (5.08%) Fortinet
6 9 (4.57%) Palantir
7 7 (3.55%) Google
8 6 (3.05%) VMware
9 4 (2.03%) IBM
9 4 (2.03%) Informatica
9 4 (2.03%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.52%) Juniper
10 3 (1.52%) Sage
10 3 (1.52%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.02%) Ariba
11 2 (1.02%) Autodesk
11 2 (1.02%) EMC
11 2 (1.02%) HP
11 2 (1.02%) Salesforce