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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 258 165
Rank change year-on-year +100 -93 -6
Permanent jobs citing Presales 283 156 661
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.55% 1.10% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.15% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 212 121 443
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £88,638 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 15,111 13,517 29,606
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.05% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,669 8,801 23,474
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,756
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +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 8 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 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.06%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.71%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.71%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.06%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.35%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.35%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.35%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 80 (28.27%) Azure
2 57 (20.14%) AWS
3 35 (12.37%) SaaS
4 28 (9.89%) GCP
5 20 (7.07%) Snowflake
6 18 (6.36%) Nutanix
7 15 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.53%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.53%) Serverless
9 9 (3.18%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (3.18%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (3.18%) Dagster
9 9 (3.18%) Vertex AI
10 6 (2.12%) dbt
10 6 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.12%) Matillion
10 6 (2.12%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.77%) OCI
11 5 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.13%) WAN
2 18 (6.36%) SD-WAN
3 16 (5.65%) Firewall
3 16 (5.65%) LAN
4 15 (5.30%) VSAN
5 10 (3.53%) Network Security
6 8 (2.83%) MPLS
7 7 (2.47%) Wireless
8 5 (1.77%) Broadband
8 5 (1.77%) VPN
9 4 (1.41%) DNS
9 4 (1.41%) IPv6
10 3 (1.06%) DHCP
10 3 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.06%) iSCSI
10 3 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (1.06%) VoIP
10 3 (1.06%) WLAN
11 2 (0.71%) SNMP
11 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (3.18%) BigQuery
2 9 (3.18%) Delta Lake
2 9 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.18%) Looker
2 9 (3.18%) Pinecone
2 9 (3.18%) Tableau
2 9 (3.18%) Weaviate
3 7 (2.47%) Power BI
4 6 (2.12%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.35%) Big Data
6 1 (0.35%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.18%) MLflow
2 6 (2.12%) JIRA
3 4 (1.41%) Git
4 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.71%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Appium
5 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.35%) JUnit
5 1 (0.35%) Maven
5 1 (0.35%) Mockito
5 1 (0.35%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 75 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.49%) Marketing
3 34 (12.01%) Finance
4 32 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.12%) Law
9 6 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.12%) Retail
9 6 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.77%) Banking
11 4 (1.41%) Advertising
11 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Games
12 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.06%) Local Government
13 2 (0.71%) German Language
13 2 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 89 (31.45%) Consultant
2 87 (30.74%) Architect
3 63 (22.26%) Solutions Architect
4 58 (20.49%) Senior
5 31 (10.95%) Presales Solution Architect
6 30 (10.60%) Cloud Consultant
7 29 (10.25%) Senior Consultant
8 22 (7.77%) Solutions Consultant
9 20 (7.07%) Technical Consultant
10 19 (6.71%) Presales Consultant
11 18 (6.36%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 17 (6.01%) Technical Architect
13 16 (5.65%) Senior Architect
14 15 (5.30%) Account Manager
14 15 (5.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
14 15 (5.30%) Sales Executive
15 14 (4.95%) Presales Engineer
15 14 (4.95%) Senior Technical Consultant
16 13 (4.59%) Infrastructure Architect
17 12 (4.24%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.53%) PyTorch
1 10 (3.53%) TensorFlow
2 9 (3.18%) Faiss
2 9 (3.18%) vLLM
3 4 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.06%) React
4 3 (1.06%) REST
5 2 (0.71%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.71%) SOAP
6 1 (0.35%) .NET
6 1 (0.35%) HEVC
6 1 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.35%) NumPy
6 1 (0.35%) Pandas
6 1 (0.35%) Playwright
6 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.13%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.65%) Driving Licence
3 15 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.59%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.53%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.83%) Blog
8 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.12%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.77%) Life Science
10 4 (1.41%) CMDB
11 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.06%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.07%) Windows
2 16 (5.65%) Linux
3 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.35%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.35%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (19.08%) Roadmaps
2 46 (16.25%) AI
3 40 (14.13%) Project Delivery
4 38 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (13.07%) Customer Engagement
6 35 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (10.95%) Workshop Facilitation
8 28 (9.89%) Agile
8 28 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (9.19%) Mentoring
10 24 (8.48%) Project Management
10 24 (8.48%) Use Case
11 23 (8.13%) Decision-Making
11 23 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (7.42%) Migration
12 21 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (7.07%) Collaborative Culture
13 20 (7.07%) Enterprise Architecture
13 20 (7.07%) ITSM
14 19 (6.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.13%) SQL
2 19 (6.71%) Python
3 10 (3.53%) Bash
3 10 (3.53%) Java
4 9 (3.18%) Go
4 9 (3.18%) Scala
5 5 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.71%) PHP
6 2 (0.71%) R
7 1 (0.35%) ABAP
7 1 (0.35%) C#
7 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (10.95%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.13%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.07%) Degree
4 18 (6.36%) VCAP
4 18 (6.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (6.01%) CCNP
6 16 (5.65%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.30%) Azure Certification
8 14 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (4.95%) VCDX
9 8 (2.83%) CCIE
9 8 (2.83%) CCNA
10 6 (2.12%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.41%) CCSE
11 4 (1.41%) LPIC
11 4 (1.41%) MCSE
11 4 (1.41%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.41%) SAP Certification
12 3 (1.06%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.89%) PMO
2 10 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.53%) QA
3 9 (3.18%) GDPR
4 6 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.06%) GAAP
6 3 (1.06%) GRC
6 3 (1.06%) SLA
7 2 (0.71%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 30 (10.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (7.42%) vSphere
3 15 (5.30%) VMware NSX
4 14 (4.95%) vCloud
5 10 (3.53%) Docker
6 9 (3.18%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (3.53%) Terraform
2 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.41%) Ansible
4 3 (1.06%) Avamar
4 3 (1.06%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (1.06%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (1.06%) VxRail
5 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.71%) OpenView
5 2 (0.71%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.35%) Autotask
6 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 51 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.95%) VMware
3 26 (9.19%) Cisco
4 17 (6.01%) Dell
4 17 (6.01%) NetApp
4 17 (6.01%) Nimble Storage
5 16 (5.65%) SAP
6 15 (5.30%) Databricks
6 15 (5.30%) Fortinet
7 14 (4.95%) Broadcom
8 11 (3.89%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.53%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.18%) Palantir
11 6 (2.12%) Barracuda Networks
11 6 (2.12%) Google
11 6 (2.12%) Juniper
11 6 (2.12%) Meraki
11 6 (2.12%) N-able
11 6 (2.12%) Sophos
12 5 (1.77%) Zscaler