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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 294 161
Rank change year-on-year +146 -133 -2
Permanent jobs citing Presales 315 129 656
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 0.88% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 0.93% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 240 108 446
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,375 £38,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.95% -20.65%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £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 15,563 13,877 29,569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 94.97% 90.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,091 8,168 23,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -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 22 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 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.59%) Confluence
4 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.95%) AutoCAD
1 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.95%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.95%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.63%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.63%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.95%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.32%) HFM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 88 (27.94%) Azure
2 63 (20.00%) AWS
3 38 (12.06%) SaaS
4 30 (9.52%) GCP
5 21 (6.67%) Nutanix
5 21 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 19 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.13%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.81%) Serverless
9 9 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (2.86%) Dagster
9 9 (2.86%) Vertex AI
10 7 (2.22%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.90%) dbt
11 6 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.90%) Matillion
11 6 (1.90%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.90%) OCI
11 6 (1.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.94%) WAN
2 20 (6.35%) SD-WAN
3 19 (6.03%) Firewall
4 18 (5.71%) VSAN
5 16 (5.08%) LAN
6 11 (3.49%) Network Security
7 9 (2.86%) MPLS
8 7 (2.22%) Wireless
9 5 (1.59%) Broadband
9 5 (1.59%) VPN
10 4 (1.27%) DNS
10 4 (1.27%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.27%) IPv6
10 4 (1.27%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.27%) WLAN
11 3 (0.95%) DHCP
11 3 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.95%) VoIP
12 2 (0.63%) ATM
12 2 (0.63%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (2.86%) BigQuery
2 9 (2.86%) Delta Lake
2 9 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.86%) Looker
2 9 (2.86%) Pinecone
2 9 (2.86%) Power BI
2 9 (2.86%) Tableau
2 9 (2.86%) Weaviate
3 7 (2.22%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.63%) Metadata
5 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.86%) MLflow
2 6 (1.90%) JIRA
3 4 (1.27%) Git
4 3 (0.95%) JUnit
4 3 (0.95%) Maven
4 3 (0.95%) Mockito
4 3 (0.95%) Snyk
5 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.63%) GitLab
6 1 (0.32%) Appium
6 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 83 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.02%) Finance
2 41 (13.02%) Public Sector
3 39 (12.38%) Marketing
4 22 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.90%) Law
8 6 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.59%) Banking
9 5 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.59%) Games
9 5 (1.59%) Retail
10 4 (1.27%) Advertising
11 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.95%) Local Government
12 2 (0.63%) Military
13 1 (0.32%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 103 (32.70%) Architect
2 101 (32.06%) Consultant
3 75 (23.81%) Solutions Architect
4 67 (21.27%) Senior
5 39 (12.38%) Presales Solution Architect
6 34 (10.79%) Senior Consultant
7 33 (10.48%) Cloud Consultant
8 25 (7.94%) Technical Consultant
9 23 (7.30%) Presales Consultant
9 23 (7.30%) Solutions Consultant
10 21 (6.67%) Senior Architect
11 19 (6.03%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 19 (6.03%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 19 (6.03%) Technical Architect
12 15 (4.76%) Account Manager
12 15 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
12 15 (4.76%) Presales Engineer
12 15 (4.76%) Sales Executive
13 14 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
14 13 (4.13%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.13%) REST
2 10 (3.17%) PyTorch
2 10 (3.17%) SOAP
2 10 (3.17%) TensorFlow
3 9 (2.86%) Faiss
3 9 (2.86%) vLLM
4 5 (1.59%) React
5 4 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.95%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.95%) Spring
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.32%) .NET
8 1 (0.32%) HEVC
8 1 (0.32%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.32%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.32%) NumPy
8 1 (0.32%) Pandas
8 1 (0.32%) Playwright
8 1 (0.32%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.08%) Driving Licence
2 16 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.13%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.17%) CMDB
7 8 (2.54%) Blog
8 6 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.90%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.59%) Life Science
9 5 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.27%) Data Fabric
10 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 3 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.98%) Windows
2 17 (5.40%) Linux
3 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.32%) Android
4 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (19.37%) AI
2 58 (18.41%) Roadmaps
3 42 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (12.70%) Project Delivery
5 39 (12.38%) Customer Engagement
5 39 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
6 35 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 35 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
7 31 (9.84%) Agile
8 29 (9.21%) Mentoring
8 29 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
9 27 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (8.25%) Decision-Making
11 25 (7.94%) Use Case
12 24 (7.62%) ITSM
13 22 (6.98%) CI/CD
13 22 (6.98%) Machine Learning
13 22 (6.98%) Migration
13 22 (6.98%) Project Management
14 21 (6.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.89%) SQL
2 22 (6.98%) Python
3 12 (3.81%) Java
4 10 (3.17%) Bash
5 9 (2.86%) Go
5 9 (2.86%) Scala
6 7 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.27%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.63%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) PHP
9 2 (0.63%) R
10 1 (0.32%) ABAP
10 1 (0.32%) C
10 1 (0.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.30%) DV Cleared
5 21 (6.67%) VCAP
5 21 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 20 (6.35%) Degree
7 19 (6.03%) CCNP
8 17 (5.40%) VCDX
9 15 (4.76%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (3.17%) CCIE
12 8 (2.54%) CCNA
13 6 (1.90%) CREST Certified
14 4 (1.27%) CCSE
14 4 (1.27%) Dell Certification
14 4 (1.27%) LPIC
14 4 (1.27%) MCSE
14 4 (1.27%) RHCSA
14 4 (1.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.76%) QA
2 13 (4.13%) PMO
3 12 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.17%) GDPR
5 8 (2.54%) GRC
6 6 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.95%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.95%) GAAP
8 3 (0.95%) NIST
8 3 (0.95%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (10.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (7.94%) vSphere
3 18 (5.71%) VMware NSX
4 16 (5.08%) vCloud
5 12 (3.81%) Docker
6 11 (3.49%) Active Directory
7 5 (1.59%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.32%) KVM
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (3.17%) Terraform
2 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.27%) Ansible
3 4 (1.27%) Avamar
3 4 (1.27%) Dell DRAC
3 4 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (1.27%) EMC VPLEX
3 4 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.27%) VxRail
4 2 (0.63%) OpenView
4 2 (0.63%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.32%) Autotask
5 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.32%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.11%) VMware
3 28 (8.89%) Cisco
4 20 (6.35%) Dell
4 20 (6.35%) NetApp
4 20 (6.35%) Nimble Storage
5 17 (5.40%) Broadcom
6 16 (5.08%) Databricks
6 16 (5.08%) SAP
6 16 (5.08%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.44%) Fortinet
7 14 (4.44%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.86%) Palantir
9 8 (2.54%) Google
9 8 (2.54%) Juniper
10 7 (2.22%) Oracle
11 6 (1.90%) Barracuda Networks
11 6 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.90%) Meraki
11 6 (1.90%) Sophos