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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 240 159
Rank change year-on-year +45 -81 -12
Permanent jobs citing Presales 211 179 629
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 1.31% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.38% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 141 111 449
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +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 14,351 13,001 27,627
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.11% 95.27% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,869 22,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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 16 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 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.42%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.95%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.95%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 13 (6.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.42%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.95%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.47%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.47%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 58 (27.49%) Azure
2 40 (18.96%) AWS
3 34 (16.11%) SaaS
4 20 (9.48%) GCP
4 20 (9.48%) Snowflake
5 17 (8.06%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.74%) Serverless
7 9 (4.27%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (4.27%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (4.27%) Dagster
7 9 (4.27%) Vertex AI
8 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.84%) dbt
8 6 (2.84%) Matillion
9 4 (1.90%) Asana
9 4 (1.90%) GitHub
9 4 (1.90%) Slack
9 4 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.53%) WAN
2 13 (6.16%) SD-WAN
3 12 (5.69%) LAN
4 9 (4.27%) MPLS
5 8 (3.79%) Firewall
6 5 (2.37%) Broadband
6 5 (2.37%) VPN
7 4 (1.90%) Network Security
7 4 (1.90%) VoIP
7 4 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.42%) ATM
8 3 (1.42%) Frame Relay
8 3 (1.42%) SNMP
8 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.95%) IPv6
9 2 (0.95%) Wireless
10 1 (0.47%) BGP
10 1 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.16%) BigQuery
2 13 (6.16%) Tableau
3 10 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.27%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (4.27%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.27%) Looker
4 9 (4.27%) Pinecone
4 9 (4.27%) Power BI
4 9 (4.27%) Weaviate
5 6 (2.84%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.90%) DataStage
6 4 (1.90%) Metadata
6 4 (1.90%) QlikView
7 2 (0.95%) Big Data
7 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.27%) MLflow
2 6 (2.84%) JIRA
3 4 (1.90%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.90%) ERwin
3 4 (1.90%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.47%) Appium
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) Git
4 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 69 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.06%) Marketing
3 33 (15.64%) Finance
4 32 (15.17%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.58%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Retail
7 14 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.27%) Law
8 9 (4.27%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.84%) Banking
10 5 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Advertising
11 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Games
11 4 (1.90%) German Language
11 4 (1.90%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.42%) Local Government
13 2 (0.95%) Military
13 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (30.81%) Consultant
2 64 (30.33%) Architect
3 49 (23.22%) Solutions Architect
4 35 (16.59%) Senior
5 20 (9.48%) Senior Consultant
6 16 (7.58%) Presales Solution Architect
7 13 (6.16%) Lead
7 13 (6.16%) Presales Consultant
8 12 (5.69%) Data Consultant
8 12 (5.69%) Integration Architect
9 10 (4.74%) ITSM Architect
9 10 (4.74%) Senior Architect
9 10 (4.74%) Technical Architect
9 10 (4.74%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (4.27%) Cloud Consultant
11 8 (3.79%) Azure Architect
11 8 (3.79%) IT Consultant
11 8 (3.79%) Technical Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.27%) Faiss
1 9 (4.27%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.27%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.27%) vLLM
2 5 (2.37%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (0.95%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.47%) Playwright
4 1 (0.47%) PySpark
4 1 (0.47%) REST
4 1 (0.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Public Cloud
2 11 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.84%) Blog
5 6 (2.84%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.84%) Web Conferencing
6 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.90%) Life Science
6 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.90%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.42%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.95%) BBC
8 2 (0.95%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.95%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.11%) Windows
2 13 (6.16%) Linux
3 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.47%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (21.33%) Roadmaps
2 41 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (18.96%) AI
4 38 (18.01%) Project Delivery
5 30 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (13.74%) Customer Engagement
7 27 (12.80%) Mentoring
8 25 (11.85%) Project Management
9 23 (10.90%) Migration
9 23 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (10.90%) Workshop Facilitation
10 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (9.95%) Decision-Making
12 20 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (9.48%) Strategic Thinking
13 19 (9.00%) Agile
13 19 (9.00%) Business Development
13 19 (9.00%) CI/CD
13 19 (9.00%) Computer Science
13 19 (9.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.53%) SQL
2 16 (7.58%) Python
3 10 (4.74%) Bash
4 9 (4.27%) Go
4 9 (4.27%) Java
4 9 (4.27%) Scala
5 2 (0.95%) R
6 1 (0.47%) ABAP
6 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.22%) Degree
3 25 (11.85%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (7.58%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.16%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.69%) CCNP
8 9 (4.27%) CCNA
9 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.84%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.90%) CCIE
10 4 (1.90%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.42%) HNC
11 3 (1.42%) LPIC
11 3 (1.42%) MCSE
11 3 (1.42%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.42%) VCAP
11 3 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.79%) QA
2 7 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.32%) GDPR
2 7 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.42%) NIST
4 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.42%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) GAAP
5 2 (0.95%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (4.74%) Docker
2 8 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.42%) vSphere
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) KVM
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (5.69%) Terraform
2 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.42%) OpenView
2 3 (1.42%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) Autotask
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 35 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.90%) SAP
3 19 (9.00%) Cisco
4 15 (7.11%) Databricks
5 10 (4.74%) Fortinet
6 9 (4.27%) Palantir
7 8 (3.79%) VMware
8 7 (3.32%) Google
9 5 (2.37%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.90%) IBM
10 4 (1.90%) Informatica
10 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.42%) ArcSight
11 3 (1.42%) EMC
11 3 (1.42%) HP
11 3 (1.42%) Juniper
11 3 (1.42%) Meraki
11 3 (1.42%) Riverbed
11 3 (1.42%) Sage
11 3 (1.42%) Zscaler