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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 158 164
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +16
Permanent jobs citing Presales 206 371 400
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 2.14% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.31% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 141 170 265
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%

All Process and 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 13,580 16,082 18,763
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.75% 92.94% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,665 9,722 15,078
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,074 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,243
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +3.75% -3.61%
75th Percentile £79,157 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 2025.

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 5 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.43%) Confluence
2 4 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) HCL Domino
3 3 (1.46%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Avid Media Composer
1 2 (0.97%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 21 (10.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.46%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.97%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.97%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.97%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.49%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.49%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.33%) Azure
2 38 (18.45%) SaaS
3 30 (14.56%) AWS
4 16 (7.77%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (5.34%) GCP
5 11 (5.34%) Serverless
6 10 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.85%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.94%) Alation
8 4 (1.94%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (1.94%) dbt
8 4 (1.94%) GitHub
8 4 (1.94%) Matillion
8 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.46%) IaaS
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.37%) SD-WAN
1 9 (4.37%) WAN
2 6 (2.91%) Firewall
3 5 (2.43%) MPLS
4 4 (1.94%) Network Security
4 4 (1.94%) VPN
5 3 (1.46%) LAN
5 3 (1.46%) VoIP
5 3 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.49%) ATM
7 1 (0.49%) BGP
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.49%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.49%) Frame Relay
7 1 (0.49%) IGMP
7 1 (0.49%) Junos
7 1 (0.49%) OSPF
7 1 (0.49%) SNMP
7 1 (0.49%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.88%) Power BI
3 6 (2.91%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.91%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.91%) Tableau
4 4 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.94%) DataStage
4 4 (1.94%) Metadata
4 4 (1.94%) QlikView
5 2 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (0.97%) Big Data
5 2 (0.97%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.97%) Looker
5 2 (0.97%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.97%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.88%) JIRA
2 4 (1.94%) ER Studio
2 4 (1.94%) ERwin
2 4 (1.94%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.97%) MLflow
General
1 79 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.24%) Finance
3 30 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 28 (13.59%) Marketing
5 19 (9.22%) Retail
6 16 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (7.28%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (6.31%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.91%) Banking
11 6 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.94%) Law
12 4 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.94%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.46%) Advertising
13 3 (1.46%) Back Office
13 3 (1.46%) Billing
13 3 (1.46%) German Language
13 3 (1.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (35.44%) Architect
2 57 (27.67%) Solutions Architect
3 54 (26.21%) Consultant
4 23 (11.17%) Senior
5 17 (8.25%) Presales Consultant
5 17 (8.25%) SAP Architect
5 17 (8.25%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.80%) Lead
7 11 (5.34%) Presales Solution Architect
7 11 (5.34%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (4.85%) Azure Architect
8 10 (4.85%) Integration Architect
9 9 (4.37%) IT Consultant
9 9 (4.37%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.88%) ITSM Architect
10 8 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
10 8 (3.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.40%) Data Consultant
11 7 (3.40%) Senior Architect
12 6 (2.91%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.85%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (1.46%) .NET
2 3 (1.46%) EDI
3 2 (0.97%) Faiss
3 2 (0.97%) PySpark
3 2 (0.97%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.97%) Regular Expression
3 2 (0.97%) REST
3 2 (0.97%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.97%) vLLM
4 1 (0.49%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.83%) Web Conferencing
2 11 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.40%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.43%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.43%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.94%) Reinsurance
6 4 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.46%) FMCG
7 3 (1.46%) PACS
7 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.97%) BBC
8 2 (0.97%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.97%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.40%) Windows
2 5 (2.43%) Linux
3 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.49%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.30%) Roadmaps
2 44 (21.36%) AI
2 44 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (15.53%) Project Delivery
5 30 (14.56%) Agile
6 27 (13.11%) Decision-Making
7 25 (12.14%) Mentoring
8 24 (11.65%) Business Development
8 24 (11.65%) Logistics
9 22 (10.68%) Customer Engagement
9 22 (10.68%) Service Delivery
10 21 (10.19%) Analytics
10 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (9.71%) Migration
12 19 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (8.74%) DevOps
14 16 (7.77%) Project Management
14 16 (7.77%) Strategic Thinking
14 16 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.37%) Python
2 8 (3.88%) SQL
3 3 (1.46%) Bash
3 3 (1.46%) Java
3 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.97%) Go
4 2 (0.97%) Scala
5 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.02%) Degree
3 26 (12.62%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.19%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.31%) AWS Certification
5 13 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.83%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.37%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.88%) SAP Certification
9 6 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.43%) CCNA
11 4 (1.94%) CISM
11 4 (1.94%) CISMP
11 4 (1.94%) CISSP
11 4 (1.94%) CRISC
11 4 (1.94%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.94%) HNC
11 4 (1.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (1.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.34%) QA
2 9 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.43%) GDPR
4 5 (2.43%) GRC
4 5 (2.43%) NIST
5 4 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.94%) JSP 440
5 4 (1.94%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.46%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.97%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) GAAP
8 1 (0.49%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (2.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.49%) Firmware
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (4.85%) Terraform
2 7 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.97%) Autotask
5 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.49%) OpenView
5 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 37 (17.96%) SAP
2 33 (16.02%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.34%) Cisco
4 10 (4.85%) Fortinet
5 8 (3.88%) Ariba
6 7 (3.40%) IBM
7 6 (2.91%) Databricks
7 6 (2.91%) Google
8 4 (1.94%) Informatica
9 3 (1.46%) Anaplan
9 3 (1.46%) Juniper
9 3 (1.46%) Lotus
9 3 (1.46%) Oracle
9 3 (1.46%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.46%) VMware
10 2 (0.97%) Foundry
10 2 (0.97%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.97%) Palantir
10 2 (0.97%) Panasonic
10 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow