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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 246 154
Rank change year-on-year +60 -92 +3
Permanent jobs citing Presales 225 146 644
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.34% 1.14% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.20% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 156 103 454
10th Percentile £42,125 £40,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +13.82% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £116,850 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 14,015 12,148 28,480
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.70% 94.82% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,753 8,786 23,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,754
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 April 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 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.33%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.89%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.89%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 13 (5.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.33%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.89%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.89%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.44%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.44%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.44%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 62 (27.56%) Azure
2 45 (20.00%) AWS
3 30 (13.33%) SaaS
4 22 (9.78%) GCP
4 22 (9.78%) Snowflake
5 13 (5.78%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.44%) Serverless
8 9 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (4.00%) Dagster
8 9 (4.00%) Vertex AI
9 6 (2.67%) dbt
9 6 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.67%) Matillion
10 5 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.22%) Mimecast
10 5 (2.22%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.78%) Alation
11 4 (1.78%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.44%) WAN
2 15 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 14 (6.22%) LAN
4 11 (4.89%) Firewall
5 7 (3.11%) Network Security
6 6 (2.67%) MPLS
6 6 (2.67%) Wireless
7 5 (2.22%) Broadband
7 5 (2.22%) VPN
7 5 (2.22%) VSAN
8 4 (1.78%) IPv6
9 3 (1.33%) VoIP
10 2 (0.89%) ATM
10 2 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.89%) Frame Relay
10 2 (0.89%) SNMP
10 2 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (5.78%) BigQuery
2 13 (5.78%) Tableau
3 9 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 9 (4.00%) Delta Lake
3 9 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.00%) Looker
3 9 (4.00%) Pinecone
3 9 (4.00%) Weaviate
4 8 (3.56%) Power BI
5 5 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.22%) Metadata
6 4 (1.78%) DataStage
6 4 (1.78%) QlikView
6 4 (1.78%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.44%) Big Data
8 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.00%) MLflow
2 5 (2.22%) JIRA
3 4 (1.78%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.78%) ERwin
3 4 (1.78%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.44%) Appium
4 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.44%) Git
4 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 68 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.89%) Marketing
3 29 (12.89%) Finance
4 28 (12.44%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.56%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.78%) Retail
7 8 (3.56%) Banking
7 8 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.67%) Law
8 6 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Advertising
9 4 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Games
9 4 (1.78%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.78%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.33%) German Language
10 3 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 72 (32.00%) Consultant
2 71 (31.56%) Architect
3 53 (23.56%) Solutions Architect
4 39 (17.33%) Senior
5 22 (9.78%) Senior Consultant
6 20 (8.89%) Presales Solution Architect
7 15 (6.67%) Cloud Consultant
8 14 (6.22%) Presales Consultant
9 13 (5.78%) Presales Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) Junior
10 12 (5.33%) Lead
10 12 (5.33%) Technical Architect
11 11 (4.89%) Data Consultant
11 11 (4.89%) Integration Architect
11 11 (4.89%) ITSM Architect
11 11 (4.89%) Senior Architect
11 11 (4.89%) Solutions Consultant
11 11 (4.89%) Technical Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (4.44%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.00%) Faiss
1 9 (4.00%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.00%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.00%) vLLM
2 4 (1.78%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.44%) .NET
3 1 (0.44%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.44%) Playwright
3 1 (0.44%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.22%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.78%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 10 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.56%) Blog
5 8 (3.56%) Web Conferencing
6 5 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.78%) Life Science
7 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.78%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.89%) BBC
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.89%) Video Editing
9 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.56%) Windows
2 15 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.78%) Roadmaps
2 39 (17.33%) Project Delivery
3 38 (16.89%) AI
4 37 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
6 26 (11.56%) Project Management
7 24 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (10.67%) Mentoring
8 23 (10.22%) Migration
8 23 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 23 (10.22%) Workshop Facilitation
9 22 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (9.33%) Decision-Making
11 20 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (8.89%) Strategic Thinking
12 19 (8.44%) Computer Science
12 19 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (8.00%) CI/CD
13 18 (8.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.00%) SQL
2 17 (7.56%) Python
3 10 (4.44%) Bash
4 9 (4.00%) Go
4 9 (4.00%) Java
4 9 (4.00%) Scala
5 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.89%) R
6 1 (0.44%) ABAP
6 1 (0.44%) C#
6 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (14.22%) Degree
2 28 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.33%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.44%) Azure Certification
5 15 (6.67%) CCNP
5 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.56%) CCNA
7 8 (3.56%) VCAP
7 8 (3.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.22%) CCIE
9 5 (2.22%) CREST Certified
9 5 (2.22%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.78%) LPIC
10 4 (1.78%) MCSE
10 4 (1.78%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) GDPR
2 8 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.11%) QA
4 5 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.33%) GAAP
6 3 (1.33%) SLA
7 2 (0.89%) NIST
7 2 (0.89%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) IFRS
8 1 (0.44%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.00%) Docker
3 8 (3.56%) vSphere
4 5 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.78%) vCloud
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) KVM
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (6.22%) Terraform
2 3 (1.33%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.89%) OpenView
3 2 (0.89%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.44%) Autotask
4 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 40 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.22%) SAP
3 22 (9.78%) Cisco
4 17 (7.56%) Databricks
5 15 (6.67%) VMware
6 12 (5.33%) Fortinet
7 9 (4.00%) Palantir
8 8 (3.56%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.11%) Google
10 6 (2.67%) Meraki
11 5 (2.22%) Barracuda Networks
11 5 (2.22%) Informatica
11 5 (2.22%) N-able
11 5 (2.22%) Sophos
11 5 (2.22%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.78%) Dell
12 4 (1.78%) IBM
12 4 (1.78%) NetApp
12 4 (1.78%) Sage
12 4 (1.78%) ServiceNow