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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 185 171
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 -22
Permanent jobs citing Presales 187 284 512
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.17% 1.79% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.89% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 125 133 353
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -18.75%

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 13,796 15,040 25,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.64% 94.55% 92.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,783 8,921 20,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,808
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
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% -12.00%

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 February 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 13 (6.95%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.60%) HCL Domino
3 3 (1.60%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.07%) Apache
4 2 (1.07%) Confluence
4 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Avid Media Composer
1 2 (1.07%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 15 (8.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.60%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.07%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.53%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.53%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.20%) Azure
2 40 (21.39%) SaaS
3 33 (17.65%) AWS
4 19 (10.16%) GCP
5 18 (9.63%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.63%) Snowflake
6 11 (5.88%) Serverless
7 10 (5.35%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.28%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (4.28%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (4.28%) Dagster
9 8 (4.28%) Vertex AI
10 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.21%) dbt
10 6 (3.21%) Matillion
11 4 (2.14%) Alation
11 4 (2.14%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (2.14%) GitHub
11 4 (2.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.81%) SD-WAN
1 9 (4.81%) WAN
2 5 (2.67%) MPLS
3 3 (1.60%) LAN
3 3 (1.60%) Network Security
3 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.07%) Firewall
4 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.07%) VoIP
5 1 (0.53%) ATM
5 1 (0.53%) BGP
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.53%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.53%) Frame Relay
5 1 (0.53%) IGMP
5 1 (0.53%) OSPF
5 1 (0.53%) SNMP
5 1 (0.53%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.53%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.56%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (6.42%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.42%) Tableau
3 10 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.81%) Power BI
5 8 (4.28%) Apache Iceberg
5 8 (4.28%) Delta Lake
5 8 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.28%) Looker
5 8 (4.28%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.28%) Weaviate
6 6 (3.21%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.14%) DataStage
7 4 (2.14%) Metadata
7 4 (2.14%) QlikView
8 2 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.07%) Big Data
8 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.28%) MLflow
2 4 (2.14%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.14%) ERwin
2 4 (2.14%) JIRA
2 4 (2.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 64 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.32%) Finance
3 30 (16.04%) Public Sector
4 29 (15.51%) Marketing
5 15 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.95%) Retail
7 11 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.81%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (3.21%) Banking
11 5 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.14%) Law
12 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.14%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.60%) Advertising
13 3 (1.60%) Billing
13 3 (1.60%) German Language
13 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 2 (1.07%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (33.16%) Architect
2 56 (29.95%) Consultant
3 43 (22.99%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (16.58%) Senior
5 18 (9.63%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (7.49%) Presales Consultant
7 13 (6.95%) Lead
8 12 (6.42%) Integration Architect
9 11 (5.88%) Data Consultant
9 11 (5.88%) IT Consultant
9 11 (5.88%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.35%) ITSM Architect
10 10 (5.35%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.81%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.81%) Presales Solution Architect
11 9 (4.81%) SAP Architect
11 9 (4.81%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 8 (4.28%) Senior Architect
13 7 (3.74%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) Faiss
1 8 (4.28%) PyTorch
1 8 (4.28%) TensorFlow
1 8 (4.28%) vLLM
2 6 (3.21%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.60%) EDI
4 2 (1.07%) PySpark
4 2 (1.07%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.53%) .NET
5 1 (0.53%) REST
5 1 (0.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.35%) Web Conferencing
3 9 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.67%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.14%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.60%) Blog
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.07%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.07%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.07%) Life Science
9 2 (1.07%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Windows
2 3 (1.60%) Linux
3 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.13%) Roadmaps
2 45 (24.06%) AI
3 38 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (16.58%) Project Delivery
6 27 (14.44%) Decision-Making
7 24 (12.83%) Customer Engagement
8 23 (12.30%) Mentoring
9 22 (11.76%) Agile
9 22 (11.76%) Migration
9 22 (11.76%) Service Delivery
10 21 (11.23%) CI/CD
11 20 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (10.16%) ITSM
12 19 (10.16%) Workshop Facilitation
13 18 (9.63%) Business Development
13 18 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (9.63%) Project Management
13 18 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (9.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.02%) SQL
2 14 (7.49%) Python
3 9 (4.81%) Java
4 8 (4.28%) Bash
4 8 (4.28%) Go
4 8 (4.28%) Scala
5 2 (1.07%) R
6 1 (0.53%) ABAP
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.51%) Degree
3 25 (13.37%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.56%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.74%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.67%) CCNA
9 5 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.67%) SAP Certification
10 4 (2.14%) CISM
10 4 (2.14%) CISMP
10 4 (2.14%) CISSP
10 4 (2.14%) CRISC
10 4 (2.14%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.14%) HNC
10 4 (2.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.81%) QA
2 8 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.67%) GDPR
3 5 (2.67%) GRC
3 5 (2.67%) NIST
4 4 (2.14%) JSP 440
4 4 (2.14%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.60%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.60%) NCSC
6 2 (1.07%) GAAP
7 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (5.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Firmware
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.81%) Terraform
2 5 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.53%) Autotask
3 1 (0.53%) OpenView
3 1 (0.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 31 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.37%) SAP
3 12 (6.42%) Databricks
4 11 (5.88%) Cisco
5 9 (4.81%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.28%) Palantir
7 7 (3.74%) Google
7 7 (3.74%) IBM
8 4 (2.14%) Informatica
8 4 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.60%) Ariba
9 3 (1.60%) Juniper
9 3 (1.60%) Lotus
9 3 (1.60%) Sage
10 2 (1.07%) Autodesk
10 2 (1.07%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.07%) Panasonic
10 2 (1.07%) Ribbon
10 2 (1.07%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.07%) Sony