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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 189 176
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 -22
Permanent jobs citing Presales 194 273 526
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 1.74% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.84% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 129 131 361
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +21.95% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £117,750 £103,750 £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 14,007 14,853 25,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.29% 94.77% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,090 8,864 21,313
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,808
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £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 14 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 14 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) HCL Domino
3 2 (1.03%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Avid Media Composer
1 2 (1.03%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 18 (9.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.55%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.03%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.03%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.52%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.52%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 52 (26.80%) Azure
2 38 (19.59%) SaaS
3 35 (18.04%) AWS
4 20 (10.31%) GCP
5 19 (9.79%) Snowflake
6 18 (9.28%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (5.67%) Serverless
8 10 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.64%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (4.64%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (4.64%) Dagster
9 9 (4.64%) Vertex AI
10 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.09%) dbt
10 6 (3.09%) Matillion
11 4 (2.06%) Alation
11 4 (2.06%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (2.06%) GitHub
11 4 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.15%) SD-WAN
1 10 (5.15%) WAN
2 6 (3.09%) MPLS
3 4 (2.06%) LAN
3 4 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.55%) Network Security
4 3 (1.55%) VoIP
5 2 (1.03%) Broadband
5 2 (1.03%) Firewall
5 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) ATM
6 1 (0.52%) BGP
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.52%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.52%) Frame Relay
6 1 (0.52%) IGMP
6 1 (0.52%) NGN
6 1 (0.52%) OSPF
6 1 (0.52%) SNMP
6 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.70%) BigQuery
2 13 (6.70%) Tableau
3 11 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.64%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (4.64%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.64%) Looker
4 9 (4.64%) Pinecone
4 9 (4.64%) Power BI
4 9 (4.64%) Weaviate
5 6 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.06%) DataStage
6 4 (2.06%) Metadata
6 4 (2.06%) QlikView
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.03%) Big Data
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.64%) MLflow
2 4 (2.06%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.06%) ERwin
2 4 (2.06%) JIRA
2 4 (2.06%) PowerDesigner
General
1 65 (33.51%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.10%) Finance
3 31 (15.98%) Public Sector
4 30 (15.46%) Marketing
5 14 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.22%) Retail
6 13 (6.70%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.67%) Manufacturing
8 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.09%) Banking
9 6 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.06%) Law
10 4 (2.06%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.55%) German Language
11 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.03%) Billing
12 2 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 66 (34.02%) Architect
2 60 (30.93%) Consultant
3 48 (24.74%) Solutions Architect
4 33 (17.01%) Senior
5 20 (10.31%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (7.22%) Presales Consultant
7 13 (6.70%) Lead
8 12 (6.19%) Data Consultant
8 12 (6.19%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.19%) Presales Solution Architect
9 11 (5.67%) IT Consultant
9 11 (5.67%) SAP Architect
9 11 (5.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.15%) ITSM Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (4.64%) Azure Architect
12 8 (4.12%) Senior Architect
13 7 (3.61%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.64%) Faiss
1 9 (4.64%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.64%) SAP Fiori
1 9 (4.64%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.64%) vLLM
2 2 (1.03%) EDI
2 2 (1.03%) PySpark
2 2 (1.03%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.52%) .NET
3 1 (0.52%) REST
3 1 (0.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.67%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.15%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.12%) Web Conferencing
4 7 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.58%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.06%) Life Science
7 4 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.06%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.55%) Blog
8 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.03%) BBC
9 2 (1.03%) Video Editing
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Windows
2 3 (1.55%) Linux
3 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.74%) Roadmaps
2 43 (22.16%) AI
3 40 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (17.53%) Project Delivery
5 27 (13.92%) Customer Engagement
6 25 (12.89%) Decision-Making
7 24 (12.37%) Migration
8 23 (11.86%) Agile
8 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
9 22 (11.34%) CI/CD
10 21 (10.82%) Service Delivery
10 21 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (10.82%) Workshop Facilitation
11 20 (10.31%) Business Development
12 19 (9.79%) Analytics
12 19 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (9.79%) Strategic Thinking
13 18 (9.28%) Data Engineering
13 18 (9.28%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.25%) SQL
2 15 (7.73%) Python
3 10 (5.15%) Java
4 9 (4.64%) Bash
4 9 (4.64%) Go
4 9 (4.64%) Scala
5 2 (1.03%) R
6 1 (0.52%) ABAP
6 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.46%) Degree
3 26 (13.40%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.25%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.64%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.61%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.61%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.09%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.58%) CCNA
9 5 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.06%) CCNP
10 4 (2.06%) CISM
10 4 (2.06%) CISSP
10 4 (2.06%) CRISC
10 4 (2.06%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.06%) HNC
10 4 (2.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.12%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.12%) QA
2 5 (2.58%) GDPR
2 5 (2.58%) GRC
2 5 (2.58%) NIST
3 4 (2.06%) JSP 440
3 4 (2.06%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.55%) NCSC
5 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.03%) GAAP
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (5.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Firmware
2 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.64%) Terraform
2 5 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Autotask
3 1 (0.52%) OpenView
3 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.43%) SAP
3 13 (6.70%) Databricks
4 11 (5.67%) Cisco
5 9 (4.64%) Fortinet
5 9 (4.64%) Palantir
6 7 (3.61%) Google
7 6 (3.09%) IBM
8 5 (2.58%) Ariba
9 4 (2.06%) Informatica
10 3 (1.55%) Juniper
10 3 (1.55%) Sage
10 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.03%) Autodesk
11 2 (1.03%) Avid
11 2 (1.03%) IFS
11 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.03%) Ribbon
11 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.03%) Zscaler