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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 185 181
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -37
Permanent jobs citing Presales 186 294 494
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 1.82% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.93% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 124 138 341
10th Percentile £49,125 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,469 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +13.46% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,625 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,375 £97,500 £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 13,672 15,244 24,944
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.61% 94.44% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 8,971 20,549
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +5.41% -4.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,751
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.62% -10.80%

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 1 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 13 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (5.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.61%) HCL Domino
3 3 (1.61%) HCL Notes
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
4 2 (1.08%) Confluence
4 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Avid Media Composer
1 2 (1.08%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 15 (8.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.61%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.08%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.54%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.54%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.54%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.88%) Azure
2 40 (21.51%) SaaS
3 33 (17.74%) AWS
4 19 (10.22%) GCP
5 18 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.68%) Snowflake
6 11 (5.91%) Serverless
7 10 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.30%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (4.30%) Azure Machine Learning
8 8 (4.30%) Dagster
8 8 (4.30%) Vertex AI
9 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.23%) dbt
9 6 (3.23%) Matillion
10 4 (2.15%) Alation
10 4 (2.15%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (2.15%) GitHub
10 4 (2.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.84%) SD-WAN
1 9 (4.84%) WAN
2 5 (2.69%) MPLS
3 3 (1.61%) Firewall
3 3 (1.61%) LAN
3 3 (1.61%) Network Security
3 3 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.08%) VoIP
5 1 (0.54%) ATM
5 1 (0.54%) BGP
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.54%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.54%) Frame Relay
5 1 (0.54%) IGMP
5 1 (0.54%) OSPF
5 1 (0.54%) SNMP
5 1 (0.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.54%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (6.45%) BigQuery
2 12 (6.45%) Tableau
3 10 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.84%) Power BI
5 8 (4.30%) Apache Iceberg
5 8 (4.30%) Delta Lake
5 8 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.30%) Looker
5 8 (4.30%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.30%) Weaviate
6 6 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.15%) DataStage
7 4 (2.15%) Metadata
7 4 (2.15%) QlikView
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.08%) Big Data
8 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.30%) MLflow
2 4 (2.15%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.15%) ERwin
2 4 (2.15%) JIRA
2 4 (2.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 63 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.89%) Finance
3 30 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 28 (15.05%) Marketing
5 15 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.99%) Retail
7 10 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (3.23%) Banking
11 4 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.15%) Law
11 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.15%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.61%) Advertising
12 3 (1.61%) Billing
12 3 (1.61%) German Language
12 3 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Local Government
14 1 (0.54%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 63 (33.87%) Architect
2 54 (29.03%) Consultant
3 44 (23.66%) Solutions Architect
4 30 (16.13%) Senior
5 17 (9.14%) Senior Consultant
6 14 (7.53%) Presales Consultant
7 13 (6.99%) Lead
8 12 (6.45%) Integration Architect
9 11 (5.91%) Data Consultant
9 11 (5.91%) IT Consultant
9 11 (5.91%) Technical Architect
10 10 (5.38%) ITSM Architect
10 10 (5.38%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.84%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.84%) Presales Solution Architect
11 9 (4.84%) SAP Architect
11 9 (4.84%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 8 (4.30%) Senior Architect
13 6 (3.23%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.30%) Faiss
1 8 (4.30%) PyTorch
1 8 (4.30%) TensorFlow
1 8 (4.30%) vLLM
2 6 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.61%) EDI
4 2 (1.08%) PySpark
4 2 (1.08%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.54%) .NET
5 1 (0.54%) REST
5 1 (0.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.38%) Web Conferencing
3 9 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.69%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.15%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.61%) Blog
8 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.08%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.08%) Life Science
9 2 (1.08%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Linux
3 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.27%) Roadmaps
2 45 (24.19%) AI
3 38 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 26 (13.98%) Decision-Making
7 24 (12.90%) Customer Engagement
8 22 (11.83%) Agile
8 22 (11.83%) Mentoring
8 22 (11.83%) Service Delivery
9 21 (11.29%) CI/CD
9 21 (11.29%) Migration
10 19 (10.22%) ITSM
10 19 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (10.22%) Workshop Facilitation
11 18 (9.68%) Business Development
11 18 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (9.14%) Computer Science
12 17 (9.14%) Project Management
12 17 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.06%) SQL
2 14 (7.53%) Python
3 9 (4.84%) Java
4 8 (4.30%) Bash
4 8 (4.30%) Go
4 8 (4.30%) Scala
5 2 (1.08%) R
6 1 (0.54%) ABAP
6 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.59%) Degree
3 25 (13.44%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.60%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.76%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.69%) CCNA
9 5 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.69%) SAP Certification
10 4 (2.15%) CISM
10 4 (2.15%) CISMP
10 4 (2.15%) CISSP
10 4 (2.15%) CRISC
10 4 (2.15%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.15%) HNC
10 4 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.84%) QA
3 8 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.69%) GDPR
4 5 (2.69%) GRC
4 5 (2.69%) NIST
5 4 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.15%) JSP 440
5 4 (2.15%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.61%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.61%) NCSC
7 1 (0.54%) GAAP
7 1 (0.54%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (5.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Firmware
2 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.84%) Terraform
2 5 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.08%) Autotask
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.54%) OpenView
4 1 (0.54%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.44%) SAP
3 12 (6.45%) Cisco
3 12 (6.45%) Databricks
4 10 (5.38%) Fortinet
5 8 (4.30%) Palantir
6 7 (3.76%) Google
6 7 (3.76%) IBM
7 4 (2.15%) Informatica
7 4 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.61%) Ariba
8 3 (1.61%) Juniper
8 3 (1.61%) Lotus
9 2 (1.08%) Avid
9 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.08%) Panasonic
9 2 (1.08%) Ribbon
9 2 (1.08%) Sage
9 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.08%) Sony