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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 253 154
Rank change year-on-year +70 -99 +2
Permanent jobs citing Presales 229 148 655
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 1.15% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.21% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 159 107 458
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £45,313
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 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £101,000 £118,000 £100,000
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 14,134 12,201 28,825
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.58% 94.80% 91.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,864 8,867 23,394
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%

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 4 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 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.31%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.31%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.31%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.87%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.87%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (5.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.31%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.87%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.44%) SAP HCM
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 (27.07%) Azure
2 43 (18.78%) AWS
3 31 (13.54%) SaaS
4 21 (9.17%) GCP
4 21 (9.17%) Snowflake
5 12 (5.24%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.93%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (3.93%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (3.93%) Dagster
7 9 (3.93%) Serverless
7 9 (3.93%) Vertex AI
8 7 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.62%) dbt
9 6 (2.62%) Matillion
10 5 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.18%) Mimecast
10 5 (2.18%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.75%) Asana
11 4 (1.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.30%) WAN
2 15 (6.55%) SD-WAN
3 14 (6.11%) LAN
4 11 (4.80%) Firewall
5 7 (3.06%) Network Security
6 6 (2.62%) MPLS
6 6 (2.62%) Wireless
7 5 (2.18%) Broadband
7 5 (2.18%) VPN
7 5 (2.18%) VSAN
8 4 (1.75%) IPv6
9 3 (1.31%) VoIP
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.87%) DNS
10 2 (0.87%) Frame Relay
10 2 (0.87%) SNMP
10 2 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.24%) BigQuery
2 12 (5.24%) Tableau
3 9 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.93%) Apache Iceberg
3 9 (3.93%) Delta Lake
3 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.93%) Looker
3 9 (3.93%) Pinecone
3 9 (3.93%) Weaviate
4 7 (3.06%) Power BI
5 4 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.75%) Metadata
5 4 (1.75%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.31%) DataStage
6 3 (1.31%) QlikView
7 2 (0.87%) 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 (3.93%) MLflow
2 5 (2.18%) JIRA
3 3 (1.31%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.31%) ERwin
3 3 (1.31%) 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 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.59%) Marketing
3 30 (13.10%) Finance
4 28 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.42%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.80%) Retail
9 8 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.06%) Banking
11 6 (2.62%) Law
11 6 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.75%) Advertising
12 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.75%) Games
12 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.31%) Local Government
13 3 (1.31%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (31.44%) Architect
1 72 (31.44%) Consultant
2 54 (23.58%) Solutions Architect
3 39 (17.03%) Senior
4 22 (9.61%) Senior Consultant
5 21 (9.17%) Presales Solution Architect
6 15 (6.55%) Cloud Consultant
7 14 (6.11%) Presales Consultant
8 13 (5.68%) Presales Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) ITSM Architect
9 12 (5.24%) Junior
9 12 (5.24%) Technical Architect
10 11 (4.80%) Data Consultant
10 11 (4.80%) Integration Architect
10 11 (4.80%) Lead
10 11 (4.80%) Senior Architect
10 11 (4.80%) Solutions Consultant
10 11 (4.80%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
11 10 (4.37%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.93%) Faiss
1 9 (3.93%) PyTorch
1 9 (3.93%) TensorFlow
1 9 (3.93%) vLLM
2 4 (1.75%) 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 15 (6.55%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.11%) Public Cloud
3 13 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.80%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.37%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.49%) Web Conferencing
7 7 (3.06%) Blog
8 5 (2.18%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.75%) Life Science
10 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.31%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (0.87%) BBC
11 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.87%) Video Editing
12 1 (0.44%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.42%) Windows
2 15 (6.55%) Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.40%) Roadmaps
2 42 (18.34%) Project Delivery
3 38 (16.59%) AI
4 37 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (13.10%) Customer Engagement
6 27 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (11.35%) Project Management
8 23 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (10.04%) Mentoring
8 23 (10.04%) Workshop Facilitation
9 22 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (9.17%) Agile
10 21 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (9.17%) Migration
11 20 (8.73%) Strategic Thinking
12 19 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (8.30%) Decision-Making
12 19 (8.30%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (7.86%) Computer Science
13 18 (7.86%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.30%) SQL
2 17 (7.42%) Python
3 10 (4.37%) Bash
4 9 (3.93%) Go
4 9 (3.93%) Java
4 9 (3.93%) Scala
5 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.87%) R
6 1 (0.44%) ABAP
6 1 (0.44%) C#
6 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (13.54%) Degree
1 31 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.42%) Azure Certification
4 15 (6.55%) CCNP
4 15 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.49%) CCNA
6 8 (3.49%) VCAP
6 8 (3.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.18%) CCIE
7 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.18%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.75%) LPIC
8 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.75%) MCSE
8 4 (1.75%) RHCSA
8 4 (1.75%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.75%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.93%) GDPR
1 9 (3.93%) QA
2 8 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.31%) GAAP
6 3 (1.31%) SLA
7 2 (0.87%) NIST
7 2 (0.87%) 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 14 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.93%) Docker
3 8 (3.49%) vSphere
4 6 (2.62%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.75%) vCloud
7 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.44%) KVM
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (5.24%) Terraform
2 3 (1.31%) Ansible
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) OpenView
3 2 (0.87%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.44%) Autotask
4 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 41 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.61%) Cisco
3 21 (9.17%) SAP
4 16 (6.99%) Databricks
5 14 (6.11%) VMware
6 12 (5.24%) Fortinet
7 9 (3.93%) Palantir
8 8 (3.49%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.62%) Google
10 6 (2.62%) Meraki
11 5 (2.18%) Barracuda Networks
11 5 (2.18%) N-able
11 5 (2.18%) Sophos
11 5 (2.18%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.75%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.75%) Dell
12 4 (1.75%) Informatica
12 4 (1.75%) NetApp
12 4 (1.75%) Nimble Storage