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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 238 161
Rank change year-on-year +40 -77 -11
Permanent jobs citing Presales 195 196 624
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 1.40% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.47% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 126 115 445
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £58,688 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,875 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +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 14,134 13,349 27,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.17% 95.35% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9,211 8,833 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,411 £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 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 10 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 (7.18%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.64%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.56%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.54%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (1.03%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (1.03%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 13 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.54%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.03%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.51%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 52 (26.67%) Azure
2 36 (18.46%) AWS
3 32 (16.41%) SaaS
4 21 (10.77%) GCP
5 20 (10.26%) Snowflake
6 17 (8.72%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.64%) Serverless
8 10 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.62%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (4.62%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (4.62%) Dagster
9 9 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.62%) Vertex AI
10 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.08%) dbt
10 6 (3.08%) Matillion
11 4 (2.05%) Asana
11 4 (2.05%) GitHub
11 4 (2.05%) Slack
11 4 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.72%) WAN
2 13 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 10 (5.13%) LAN
4 8 (4.10%) MPLS
5 7 (3.59%) Firewall
6 5 (2.56%) Broadband
6 5 (2.56%) VPN
7 4 (2.05%) Network Security
7 4 (2.05%) VoIP
7 4 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.03%) ATM
8 2 (1.03%) Frame Relay
8 2 (1.03%) SNMP
8 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.51%) DNS
9 1 (0.51%) HTTP
9 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.51%) IPv6
9 1 (0.51%) SMTP
9 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 13 (6.67%) Tableau
3 11 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.62%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (4.62%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.62%) Looker
4 9 (4.62%) Pinecone
4 9 (4.62%) Power BI
4 9 (4.62%) Weaviate
5 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.05%) DataStage
6 4 (2.05%) Metadata
6 4 (2.05%) QlikView
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.03%) Big Data
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.62%) MLflow
2 6 (3.08%) JIRA
3 4 (2.05%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.05%) ERwin
3 4 (2.05%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.51%) Git
General
1 61 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.92%) Marketing
3 32 (16.41%) Finance
4 26 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (6.15%) Retail
8 9 (4.62%) Law
9 7 (3.59%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.56%) Banking
10 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.05%) Advertising
11 4 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.05%) Games
11 4 (2.05%) German Language
11 4 (2.05%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (31.28%) Architect
2 59 (30.26%) Consultant
3 46 (23.59%) Solutions Architect
4 33 (16.92%) Senior
5 20 (10.26%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (7.18%) Presales Solution Architect
7 13 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
8 12 (6.15%) Data Consultant
8 12 (6.15%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.15%) Lead
9 10 (5.13%) ITSM Architect
9 10 (5.13%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.13%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (4.62%) IT Consultant
10 9 (4.62%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.10%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.10%) Cloud Consultant
11 8 (4.10%) Technical Engineer
12 7 (3.59%) SAP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.62%) Faiss
1 9 (4.62%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.62%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.62%) vLLM
2 5 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.03%) PySpark
3 2 (1.03%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.51%) REST
4 1 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.15%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.08%) Web Conferencing
4 5 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.05%) Life Science
5 4 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.05%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.54%) Blog
6 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.03%) BBC
7 2 (1.03%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.03%) Video Editing
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.62%) Windows
2 7 (3.59%) Linux
3 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.51%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.54%) Roadmaps
2 41 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (20.51%) AI
4 36 (18.46%) Project Delivery
5 29 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (14.87%) Customer Engagement
6 26 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 24 (12.31%) Project Management
8 23 (11.79%) Migration
8 23 (11.79%) Workshop Facilitation
9 22 (11.28%) Decision-Making
9 22 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
11 19 (9.74%) Business Development
11 19 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (9.74%) CI/CD
12 18 (9.23%) Analytics
12 18 (9.23%) Computer Science
12 18 (9.23%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.72%) SQL
2 16 (8.21%) Python
3 10 (5.13%) Bash
4 9 (4.62%) Go
4 9 (4.62%) Java
4 9 (4.62%) Scala
5 2 (1.03%) R
6 1 (0.51%) ABAP
6 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.36%) Degree
3 21 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.18%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.64%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.62%) CCNP
8 8 (4.10%) CCNA
9 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.05%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.05%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.54%) CCIE
11 3 (1.54%) HNC
12 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.03%) MCSE
12 2 (1.03%) SAP Certification
12 2 (1.03%) VCAP
12 2 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.59%) GDPR
2 7 (3.59%) QA
3 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.54%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) GAAP
5 2 (1.03%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.64%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.03%) vSphere
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) KVM
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (6.15%) Terraform
2 4 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.03%) OpenView
3 2 (1.03%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Autotask
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.51%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.28%) SAP
3 16 (8.21%) Cisco
4 14 (7.18%) Databricks
5 9 (4.62%) Fortinet
5 9 (4.62%) Palantir
6 7 (3.59%) Google
7 5 (2.56%) VMware
8 4 (2.05%) IBM
8 4 (2.05%) Informatica
8 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.54%) Juniper
9 3 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.54%) Sage
9 3 (1.54%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.03%) Ariba
10 2 (1.03%) ExtraHop
10 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.03%) Panasonic
10 2 (1.03%) Riverbed