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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 284 150
Rank change year-on-year +135 -134 +10
Permanent jobs citing Presales 342 140 705
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.72% 0.91% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.97% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 266 122 481
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% +9.76% -20.65%

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 16,250 14,485 30,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.82% 94.60% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,711 8,403 23,769
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 15 June 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 12 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.46%) Confluence
4 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) AutoCAD
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.88%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (0.29%) Avid Media Composer
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.29%) Pro Tools
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.88%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.29%) HFM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.29%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 100 (29.24%) Azure
2 65 (19.01%) AWS
3 37 (10.82%) SaaS
4 30 (8.77%) GCP
5 24 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (6.73%) Nutanix
7 20 (5.85%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.97%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.34%) Amazon SageMaker
10 8 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.34%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (2.34%) Dagster
10 8 (2.34%) Serverless
10 8 (2.34%) Vertex AI
11 7 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.75%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.75%) OCI
12 6 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.48%) WAN
2 25 (7.31%) Firewall
3 21 (6.14%) SD-WAN
3 21 (6.14%) VSAN
4 20 (5.85%) LAN
5 13 (3.80%) Network Security
6 9 (2.63%) MPLS
7 8 (2.34%) VPN
7 8 (2.34%) Wireless
8 7 (2.05%) Broadband
8 7 (2.05%) WLAN
9 6 (1.75%) DNS
9 6 (1.75%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (1.75%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.17%) IPv6
10 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.17%) VLAN
11 3 (0.88%) DHCP
11 3 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (3.80%) Power BI
3 10 (2.92%) Tableau
4 9 (2.63%) Delta Lake
4 9 (2.63%) Looker
5 8 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
5 8 (2.34%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.34%) Pinecone
5 8 (2.34%) Weaviate
6 7 (2.05%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.88%) Metadata
9 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.29%) Big Data
10 1 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.34%) MLflow
2 6 (1.75%) JIRA
3 4 (1.17%) Git
3 4 (1.17%) JUnit
3 4 (1.17%) Maven
3 4 (1.17%) Mockito
4 3 (0.88%) Snyk
5 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.58%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) Appium
6 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 92 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.62%) Finance
3 41 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 34 (9.94%) Marketing
5 20 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 17 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.05%) Games
9 7 (2.05%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.75%) Retail
11 5 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.46%) Law
12 4 (1.17%) Advertising
12 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.17%) Banking
13 3 (0.88%) Local Government
14 2 (0.58%) Military
15 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 114 (33.33%) Architect
1 114 (33.33%) Consultant
2 81 (23.68%) Solutions Architect
3 70 (20.47%) Senior
4 47 (13.74%) Presales Solution Architect
5 35 (10.23%) Senior Consultant
6 34 (9.94%) Cloud Consultant
7 28 (8.19%) Technical Consultant
8 27 (7.89%) Presales Consultant
9 24 (7.02%) Solutions Consultant
10 22 (6.43%) Senior Architect
10 22 (6.43%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 21 (6.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 18 (5.26%) Technical Architect
13 17 (4.97%) Cloud Architect
13 17 (4.97%) VMware Architect
14 16 (4.68%) Infrastructure Architect
15 15 (4.39%) Cloud Solutions Architect
15 15 (4.39%) Sales Executive
15 15 (4.39%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.39%) REST
2 11 (3.22%) SOAP
3 9 (2.63%) PyTorch
3 9 (2.63%) TensorFlow
4 8 (2.34%) Faiss
4 8 (2.34%) vLLM
5 6 (1.75%) React
6 5 (1.46%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (1.17%) ModSecurity
7 4 (1.17%) Spring
8 3 (0.88%) Regular Expression
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.29%) .NET
10 1 (0.29%) HEVC
10 1 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
10 1 (0.29%) NumPy
10 1 (0.29%) Pandas
10 1 (0.29%) Playwright
10 1 (0.29%) PySpark
10 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.62%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 18 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.09%) Private Cloud
5 13 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.22%) CMDB
8 8 (2.34%) Blog
9 7 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.75%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.75%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 6 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.46%) Life Science
11 5 (1.46%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.58%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.02%) Windows
2 16 (4.68%) Linux
3 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.88%) Android
5 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.29%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (20.18%) AI
2 54 (15.79%) Roadmaps
3 44 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (12.28%) Project Delivery
6 40 (11.70%) Workshop Facilitation
7 38 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 36 (10.53%) Customer Engagement
9 35 (10.23%) Agile
10 34 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (9.65%) Mentoring
12 32 (9.36%) Decision-Making
13 29 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (7.89%) CI/CD
15 26 (7.60%) Machine Learning
16 25 (7.31%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (7.31%) Use Case
17 24 (7.02%) Analytics
17 24 (7.02%) ITIL
18 23 (6.73%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.06%) SQL
2 22 (6.43%) Python
3 12 (3.51%) Java
4 9 (2.63%) Bash
5 8 (2.34%) Go
5 8 (2.34%) Scala
6 7 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.17%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.58%) C#
8 2 (0.58%) PHP
8 2 (0.58%) R
9 1 (0.29%) ABAP
9 1 (0.29%) Bicep
9 1 (0.29%) C
9 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 45 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.48%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (7.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 24 (7.02%) VCAP
6 23 (6.73%) CCNP
6 23 (6.73%) DV Cleared
7 20 (5.85%) VCDX
8 18 (5.26%) Degree
9 12 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (3.22%) Azure Certification
10 11 (3.22%) CCIE
11 8 (2.34%) CCNA
12 6 (1.75%) CREST Certified
12 6 (1.75%) Dell Certification
13 5 (1.46%) RHCSA
14 4 (1.17%) CISM
14 4 (1.17%) CISSP
14 4 (1.17%) CRISC
14 4 (1.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.68%) QA
2 15 (4.39%) PMO
3 14 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.22%) GRC
5 9 (2.63%) GDPR
6 6 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.46%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.46%) NIST
8 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.17%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.88%) SLA
10 2 (0.58%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.29%) IFRS
11 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (11.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (8.77%) vSphere
3 21 (6.14%) VMware NSX
4 16 (4.68%) vCloud
5 15 (4.39%) Active Directory
6 12 (3.51%) Docker
7 10 (2.92%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.29%) KVM
9 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (2.92%) Terraform
2 8 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.75%) Avamar
4 6 (1.75%) Dell DRAC
4 6 (1.75%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (1.75%) EMC VPLEX
4 6 (1.75%) VxRail
5 4 (1.17%) Ansible
5 4 (1.17%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.58%) OpenView
6 2 (0.58%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.29%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 71 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.28%) VMware
3 34 (9.94%) Cisco
4 22 (6.43%) Dell
4 22 (6.43%) NetApp
4 22 (6.43%) Nimble Storage
5 20 (5.85%) Broadcom
6 18 (5.26%) Databricks
6 18 (5.26%) SAP
7 17 (4.97%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.39%) Palo Alto
9 14 (4.09%) Fortinet
10 9 (2.63%) Juniper
11 8 (2.34%) Meraki
11 8 (2.34%) Oracle
11 8 (2.34%) Palantir
12 7 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.05%) Google
13 6 (1.75%) IFS
13 6 (1.75%) N-able