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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 288 158
Rank change year-on-year +142 -130 -2
Permanent jobs citing Presales 321 131 658
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.70% 0.90% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 0.94% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 245 111 447
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +17.89% -20.65%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 15,628 13,867 29,674
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 94.93% 90.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,147 8,130 23,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 25 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 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.56%) Confluence
4 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) AutoCAD
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.93%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.62%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.62%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.93%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.31%) HFM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 89 (27.73%) Azure
2 64 (19.94%) AWS
3 39 (12.15%) SaaS
4 30 (9.35%) GCP
5 22 (6.85%) Nutanix
6 20 (6.23%) Snowflake
7 19 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.74%) Serverless
10 9 (2.80%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (2.80%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (2.80%) Dagster
10 9 (2.80%) Vertex AI
11 7 (2.18%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.87%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.87%) OCI
12 6 (1.87%) PaaS
13 5 (1.56%) dbt
13 5 (1.56%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.79%) WAN
2 20 (6.23%) Firewall
2 20 (6.23%) SD-WAN
3 19 (5.92%) VSAN
4 17 (5.30%) LAN
5 11 (3.43%) Network Security
6 9 (2.80%) MPLS
7 7 (2.18%) Wireless
8 5 (1.56%) Broadband
8 5 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (1.56%) iSCSI
8 5 (1.56%) VPN
8 5 (1.56%) WLAN
9 4 (1.25%) DNS
9 4 (1.25%) IPv6
10 3 (0.93%) DHCP
10 3 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.93%) VoIP
11 2 (0.62%) Frame Relay
11 2 (0.62%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (2.80%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (2.80%) BigQuery
2 9 (2.80%) Delta Lake
2 9 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.80%) Looker
2 9 (2.80%) Pinecone
2 9 (2.80%) Power BI
2 9 (2.80%) Tableau
2 9 (2.80%) Weaviate
3 7 (2.18%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.62%) Metadata
5 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.31%) Big Data
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.80%) MLflow
2 6 (1.87%) JIRA
3 4 (1.25%) Git
4 3 (0.93%) JUnit
4 3 (0.93%) Maven
4 3 (0.93%) Mockito
4 3 (0.93%) Snyk
5 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.62%) GitLab
6 1 (0.31%) Appium
6 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 83 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.08%) Finance
3 41 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.15%) Marketing
5 22 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.43%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.18%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.87%) Games
10 6 (1.87%) Law
10 6 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.56%) Banking
11 5 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.56%) Retail
12 4 (1.25%) Advertising
13 3 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.93%) Local Government
14 2 (0.62%) Military
15 1 (0.31%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 106 (33.02%) Architect
2 103 (32.09%) Consultant
3 76 (23.68%) Solutions Architect
4 68 (21.18%) Senior
5 40 (12.46%) Presales Solution Architect
6 35 (10.90%) Senior Consultant
7 33 (10.28%) Cloud Consultant
8 26 (8.10%) Technical Consultant
9 23 (7.17%) Presales Consultant
9 23 (7.17%) Solutions Consultant
10 22 (6.85%) Senior Architect
11 20 (6.23%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 20 (6.23%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 20 (6.23%) Technical Architect
12 15 (4.67%) Account Manager
12 15 (4.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
12 15 (4.67%) Infrastructure Architect
12 15 (4.67%) Presales Engineer
12 15 (4.67%) Sales Executive
13 14 (4.36%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.05%) REST
2 10 (3.12%) PyTorch
2 10 (3.12%) SOAP
2 10 (3.12%) TensorFlow
3 9 (2.80%) Faiss
3 9 (2.80%) vLLM
4 5 (1.56%) React
5 4 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.93%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.93%) Spring
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.31%) .NET
8 1 (0.31%) HEVC
8 1 (0.31%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.31%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.31%) NumPy
8 1 (0.31%) Pandas
8 1 (0.31%) Playwright
8 1 (0.31%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.64%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.98%) Driving Licence
2 16 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.36%) Private Cloud
4 14 (4.36%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.43%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.12%) CMDB
7 8 (2.49%) Blog
8 6 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.87%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.56%) Life Science
9 5 (1.56%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.56%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (1.25%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.85%) Windows
2 17 (5.30%) Linux
3 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.31%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (19.31%) AI
2 58 (18.07%) Roadmaps
3 43 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (12.46%) Customer Engagement
4 40 (12.46%) Project Delivery
5 39 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
6 35 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 35 (10.90%) Workshop Facilitation
7 32 (9.97%) Agile
8 29 (9.03%) Mentoring
9 28 (8.72%) Decision-Making
9 28 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (7.79%) Use Case
12 24 (7.48%) ITSM
13 23 (7.17%) Machine Learning
13 23 (7.17%) Project Management
14 22 (6.85%) CI/CD
14 22 (6.85%) ITIL
14 22 (6.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.41%) SQL
2 21 (6.54%) Python
3 12 (3.74%) Java
4 10 (3.12%) Bash
5 9 (2.80%) Go
5 9 (2.80%) Scala
6 7 (2.18%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.62%) C#
9 2 (0.62%) PHP
9 2 (0.62%) R
10 1 (0.31%) ABAP
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.10%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.17%) DV Cleared
4 23 (7.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 22 (6.85%) VCAP
6 21 (6.54%) Degree
7 20 (6.23%) CCNP
8 18 (5.61%) VCDX
9 15 (4.67%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (3.12%) CCIE
12 8 (2.49%) CCNA
13 6 (1.87%) CREST Certified
14 5 (1.56%) Dell Certification
14 5 (1.56%) RHCSA
15 4 (1.25%) CCSE
15 4 (1.25%) LPIC
15 4 (1.25%) MCSE
15 4 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.67%) QA
2 14 (4.36%) PMO
3 12 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.12%) GDPR
5 8 (2.49%) GRC
6 6 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.93%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.93%) GAAP
8 3 (0.93%) NIST
8 3 (0.93%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) IFRS
9 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (11.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (8.41%) vSphere
3 19 (5.92%) VMware NSX
4 16 (4.98%) vCloud
5 12 (3.74%) Docker
6 11 (3.43%) Active Directory
7 6 (1.87%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.31%) KVM
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (3.12%) Terraform
2 5 (1.56%) Avamar
2 5 (1.56%) Dell DRAC
2 5 (1.56%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (1.56%) EMC VPLEX
2 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.56%) VxRail
3 4 (1.25%) Ansible
3 4 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.62%) OpenView
4 2 (0.62%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.31%) Autotask
5 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.31%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 59 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.84%) VMware
3 28 (8.72%) Cisco
4 21 (6.54%) Dell
4 21 (6.54%) NetApp
4 21 (6.54%) Nimble Storage
5 18 (5.61%) Broadcom
6 16 (4.98%) Databricks
6 16 (4.98%) SAP
6 16 (4.98%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.36%) Fortinet
7 14 (4.36%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.80%) Palantir
9 8 (2.49%) Google
9 8 (2.49%) Juniper
10 7 (2.18%) Oracle
11 6 (1.87%) Barracuda Networks
11 6 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.87%) Meraki
11 6 (1.87%) Sophos