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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 244 155
Rank change year-on-year +55 -89 +4
Permanent jobs citing Presales 226 154 646
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.34% 1.19% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.26% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 156 111 459
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £45,000
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 £106,250 £114,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 14,170 12,263 28,453
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.10% 94.89% 91.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,712 8,858 23,219
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,959
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 £75,125
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% -11.29%

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 29 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 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.33%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.88%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.88%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 12 (5.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.88%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.88%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.88%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
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 (27.43%) Azure
2 46 (20.35%) AWS
3 33 (14.60%) SaaS
4 22 (9.73%) GCP
4 22 (9.73%) Snowflake
5 13 (5.75%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.42%) Serverless
7 9 (3.98%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (3.98%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (3.98%) Dagster
7 9 (3.98%) Vertex AI
8 6 (2.65%) dbt
8 6 (2.65%) Matillion
9 5 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.21%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.77%) Alation
10 4 (1.77%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (1.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.29%) WAN
2 16 (7.08%) SD-WAN
3 15 (6.64%) LAN
4 11 (4.87%) Firewall
5 8 (3.54%) MPLS
6 6 (2.65%) Network Security
6 6 (2.65%) Wireless
7 5 (2.21%) Broadband
7 5 (2.21%) VPN
7 5 (2.21%) VSAN
8 4 (1.77%) IPv6
8 4 (1.77%) VoIP
9 3 (1.33%) ATM
9 3 (1.33%) Frame Relay
9 3 (1.33%) SNMP
9 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (5.75%) BigQuery
2 13 (5.75%) Tableau
3 9 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.98%) Apache Iceberg
3 9 (3.98%) Delta Lake
3 9 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.98%) Looker
3 9 (3.98%) Pinecone
3 9 (3.98%) Weaviate
4 8 (3.54%) Power BI
5 5 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.21%) Metadata
6 4 (1.77%) DataStage
6 4 (1.77%) QlikView
7 3 (1.33%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.88%) Big Data
8 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.98%) MLflow
2 5 (2.21%) JIRA
3 4 (1.77%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.77%) ERwin
3 4 (1.77%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.44%) Appium
4 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.44%) Git
4 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 71 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.26%) Marketing
3 30 (13.27%) Finance
4 29 (12.83%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.75%) Retail
7 8 (3.54%) Banking
7 8 (3.54%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.65%) Law
9 5 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.77%) Advertising
10 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.77%) Games
10 4 (1.77%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.33%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.33%) German Language
11 3 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 73 (32.30%) Consultant
2 70 (30.97%) Architect
3 54 (23.89%) Solutions Architect
4 39 (17.26%) Senior
5 22 (9.73%) Senior Consultant
6 21 (9.29%) Presales Solution Architect
7 15 (6.64%) Cloud Consultant
7 15 (6.64%) Presales Consultant
8 12 (5.31%) Data Consultant
8 12 (5.31%) Integration Architect
8 12 (5.31%) Lead
8 12 (5.31%) Presales Engineer
9 11 (4.87%) ITSM Architect
9 11 (4.87%) Junior
9 11 (4.87%) Senior Architect
9 11 (4.87%) Solutions Consultant
9 11 (4.87%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.87%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
10 10 (4.42%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.98%) Faiss
1 9 (3.98%) PyTorch
1 9 (3.98%) TensorFlow
1 9 (3.98%) vLLM
2 4 (1.77%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (0.88%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.44%) .NET
4 1 (0.44%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.44%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.19%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.75%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.54%) Blog
5 8 (3.54%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.10%) Web Conferencing
7 6 (2.65%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.77%) Life Science
8 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.77%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.88%) BBC
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.88%) Video Editing
10 1 (0.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.96%) Windows
2 16 (7.08%) Linux
3 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (22.57%) Roadmaps
2 41 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (17.70%) Project Delivery
4 39 (17.26%) AI
5 31 (13.72%) Customer Engagement
6 27 (11.95%) Project Management
7 26 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (11.06%) Mentoring
9 23 (10.18%) Migration
9 23 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (10.18%) Workshop Facilitation
10 22 (9.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (9.29%) Decision-Making
12 20 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (8.85%) Strategic Thinking
13 19 (8.41%) Agile
13 19 (8.41%) Computer Science
13 19 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (7.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.96%) SQL
2 17 (7.52%) Python
3 10 (4.42%) Bash
4 9 (3.98%) Go
4 9 (3.98%) Java
4 9 (3.98%) Scala
5 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.88%) R
6 1 (0.44%) ABAP
6 1 (0.44%) C#
6 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (14.16%) Degree
2 30 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.18%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (9.29%) SC Cleared
5 19 (8.41%) Azure Certification
6 16 (7.08%) CCNP
6 16 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.75%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.42%) CCNA
9 8 (3.54%) VCAP
9 8 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (2.65%) CCIE
10 6 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.21%) CREST Certified
11 5 (2.21%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.77%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.77%) LPIC
12 4 (1.77%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.77%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.98%) GDPR
2 8 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.10%) QA
4 5 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.33%) GAAP
6 3 (1.33%) SLA
7 2 (0.88%) NIST
7 2 (0.88%) 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 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.98%) Docker
3 8 (3.54%) vSphere
4 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.21%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.77%) vCloud
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) KVM
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (6.19%) Terraform
2 3 (1.33%) Ansible
2 3 (1.33%) OpenView
2 3 (1.33%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.44%) Autotask
4 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 37 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.62%) Cisco
3 22 (9.73%) SAP
4 17 (7.52%) Databricks
5 14 (6.19%) VMware
6 12 (5.31%) Fortinet
7 9 (3.98%) Palantir
8 8 (3.54%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.10%) Google
10 6 (2.65%) Meraki
11 5 (2.21%) Informatica
11 5 (2.21%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.77%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.77%) Dell
12 4 (1.77%) IBM
12 4 (1.77%) NetApp
12 4 (1.77%) Nimble Storage
12 4 (1.77%) Sage
13 3 (1.33%) ExtraHop
13 3 (1.33%) Netskope