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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 257 133
Rank change year-on-year +106 -124 +52
Permanent jobs citing Presales 408 183 633
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.86% 1.11% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.19% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 333 157 392
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +13.82% -18.00%

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 18,171 15,314 23,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.92% 93.05% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,195 9,035 17,591
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%

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 28 July 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 5 (1.23%) Confluence
1 5 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.74%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.74%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.72%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.74%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.25%) HFM
6 1 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MII
6 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (30.64%) Azure
2 63 (15.44%) AWS
3 40 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (8.33%) SaaS
5 26 (6.37%) GCP
6 25 (6.13%) Power Platform
7 23 (5.64%) Nutanix
8 19 (4.66%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.43%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.45%) Mimecast
11 9 (2.21%) OCI
12 8 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.96%) Snowflake
13 7 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.72%) PaaS
14 6 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.47%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.31%) Firewall
2 34 (8.33%) WAN
3 28 (6.86%) LAN
4 22 (5.39%) VSAN
5 21 (5.15%) SD-WAN
6 15 (3.68%) Network Security
7 10 (2.45%) Wireless
7 10 (2.45%) WLAN
8 9 (2.21%) MPLS
8 9 (2.21%) VPN
9 7 (1.72%) Broadband
10 6 (1.47%) DNS
10 6 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (1.47%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.47%) VLAN
11 5 (1.23%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.98%) IPv6
12 4 (0.98%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.74%) DHCP
13 3 (0.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (2.94%) Power BI
2 7 (1.72%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.72%) SAP HANA
3 5 (1.23%) Tableau
4 4 (0.98%) Metadata
5 3 (0.74%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.74%) Looker
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.49%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.49%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.25%) Big Data
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.47%) JIRA
2 4 (0.98%) Git
2 4 (0.98%) JUnit
2 4 (0.98%) Maven
2 4 (0.98%) Mockito
3 3 (0.74%) Snyk
4 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.49%) GitLab
4 2 (0.49%) MLflow
5 1 (0.25%) Appium
5 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 121 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 74 (18.14%) Finance
3 42 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.09%) Marketing
5 31 (7.60%) Presentation Skills
6 24 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (3.92%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.21%) Games
11 9 (2.21%) Law
11 9 (2.21%) Retail
12 8 (1.96%) Advertising
13 6 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.98%) Banking
14 4 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.74%) French Language
15 3 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 145 (35.54%) Architect
2 131 (32.11%) Consultant
3 114 (27.94%) Solutions Architect
4 71 (17.40%) Presales Solution Architect
5 70 (17.16%) Senior
6 38 (9.31%) Solutions Consultant
7 35 (8.58%) Cloud Consultant
8 32 (7.84%) Presales Consultant
9 31 (7.60%) Senior Consultant
10 30 (7.35%) Technical Consultant
11 24 (5.88%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 21 (5.15%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 20 (4.90%) Senior Architect
14 18 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (4.41%) VMware Architect
15 16 (3.92%) Account Manager
15 16 (3.92%) Cloud Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
15 16 (3.92%) Lead
15 16 (3.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.41%) REST
2 14 (3.43%) SOAP
3 6 (1.47%) React
4 5 (1.23%) ModSecurity
4 5 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (0.98%) Spring
6 3 (0.74%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.74%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.74%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.49%) Faiss
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.49%) vLLM
8 1 (0.25%) .NET
8 1 (0.25%) HEVC
8 1 (0.25%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.25%) NumPy
8 1 (0.25%) Pandas
8 1 (0.25%) Playwright
8 1 (0.25%) PySpark
8 1 (0.25%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.75%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.39%) Driving Licence
3 21 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 13 (3.19%) CMDB
5 13 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.72%) Blog
8 7 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.72%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.47%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.47%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 5 (1.23%) iPhone
10 5 (1.23%) Life Science
10 5 (1.23%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.60%) Windows
2 15 (3.68%) Linux
3 11 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.47%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (18.38%) AI
2 59 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (11.52%) Decision-Making
5 47 (11.52%) Project Delivery
5 47 (11.52%) Roadmaps
6 46 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 45 (11.03%) Customer Engagement
8 44 (10.78%) Mentoring
9 42 (10.29%) Customer Requirements
10 41 (10.05%) Agile
10 41 (10.05%) Workshop Facilitation
11 32 (7.84%) Commercial Awareness
12 30 (7.35%) Collaborative Culture
12 30 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (7.11%) ERP
13 29 (7.11%) ITIL
13 29 (7.11%) Migration
14 28 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.13%) SQL
2 18 (4.41%) Python
3 7 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.47%) Java
5 5 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 3 (0.74%) Bash
8 2 (0.49%) C
8 2 (0.49%) C#
8 2 (0.49%) C++
8 2 (0.49%) Go
8 2 (0.49%) PHP
8 2 (0.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 60 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.60%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (7.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (6.37%) CCNP
5 26 (6.37%) DV Cleared
6 25 (6.13%) VCAP
7 21 (5.15%) VCDX
8 17 (4.17%) Degree
9 13 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.94%) Azure Certification
11 11 (2.70%) CCIE
12 8 (1.96%) CCNA
12 8 (1.96%) RHCSA
13 6 (1.47%) CISM
13 6 (1.47%) CISSP
13 6 (1.47%) CREST Certified
13 6 (1.47%) Dell Certification
14 5 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 5 (1.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (4.17%) QA
2 15 (3.68%) PMO
3 14 (3.43%) GRC
4 13 (3.19%) GDPR
5 8 (1.96%) NIST
5 8 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.23%) JSP 440
7 4 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.98%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.98%) SLA
8 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.49%) GAAP
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (12.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (7.60%) vSphere
3 22 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 22 (5.39%) VMware NSX
4 18 (4.41%) Hyper-V
5 16 (3.92%) vCloud
6 8 (1.96%) Docker
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.25%) Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.21%) Terraform
4 6 (1.47%) Avamar
4 6 (1.47%) Dell DRAC
4 6 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (1.47%) EMC VPLEX
4 6 (1.47%) VxRail
5 5 (1.23%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.98%) Ansible
6 4 (0.98%) CASB
7 2 (0.49%) OpenView
7 2 (0.49%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.25%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 100 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 51 (12.50%) VMware
3 42 (10.29%) Cisco
4 23 (5.64%) NetApp
5 22 (5.39%) Dell
5 22 (5.39%) Nimble Storage
6 21 (5.15%) Broadcom
7 19 (4.66%) SAP
8 18 (4.41%) ServiceNow
9 16 (3.92%) Fortinet
9 16 (3.92%) Palo Alto
10 15 (3.68%) Databricks
11 13 (3.19%) Oracle
12 12 (2.94%) Meraki
13 10 (2.45%) N-able
14 8 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.96%) Juniper
15 6 (1.47%) 3PAR
15 6 (1.47%) Google
15 6 (1.47%) Sophos