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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 237 149
Rank change year-on-year +90 -88 +61
Permanent jobs citing Presales 450 197 528
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.91% 1.22% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.32% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 367 167 269
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £115,000 £95,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500

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 19,307 14,959 20,242
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 92.97% 87.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,920 8,587 13,044
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 8 September 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 7 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.22%) Appian
4 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.89%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.44%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.22%) HFM
6 1 (0.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 136 (30.22%) Azure
2 63 (14.00%) AWS
3 41 (9.11%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (9.11%) SaaS
4 31 (6.89%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.56%) GCP
6 22 (4.89%) Nutanix
7 21 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (4.44%) Entra ID
9 11 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (2.22%) Mimecast
11 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (2.00%) OCI
11 9 (2.00%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.33%) PaaS
13 6 (1.33%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.33%) Snowflake
14 5 (1.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.78%) Firewall
2 28 (6.22%) WAN
3 22 (4.89%) VSAN
4 21 (4.67%) LAN
5 19 (4.22%) SD-WAN
6 17 (3.78%) Network Security
7 9 (2.00%) Unified Communications
7 9 (2.00%) Wireless
7 9 (2.00%) WLAN
8 8 (1.78%) DNS
9 6 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (1.33%) iSCSI
9 6 (1.33%) MPLS
10 5 (1.11%) VLAN
11 4 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.89%) DWDM
11 4 (0.89%) VPN
12 3 (0.67%) DHCP
12 3 (0.67%) IPv6
12 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.33%) Power BI
2 14 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.78%) SAP HANA
4 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.11%) Metadata
6 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.67%) Tableau
8 2 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.22%) Big Data
9 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Looker
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (0.89%) JUnit
1 4 (0.89%) Maven
1 4 (0.89%) Mockito
2 3 (0.67%) Git
2 3 (0.67%) Snyk
3 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.44%) GitLab
3 2 (0.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.22%) Appium
4 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 153 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 90 (20.00%) Finance
3 48 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 45 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 37 (8.22%) Marketing
6 22 (4.89%) Manufacturing
6 22 (4.89%) Telecoms
7 21 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.00%) Local Government
11 8 (1.78%) Advertising
11 8 (1.78%) Retail
12 7 (1.56%) Games
12 7 (1.56%) Legal
13 5 (1.11%) French Language
13 5 (1.11%) Law
14 4 (0.89%) Arabic Language
14 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (34.00%) Architect
2 136 (30.22%) Consultant
3 117 (26.00%) Solutions Architect
4 77 (17.11%) Senior
5 69 (15.33%) Presales Solution Architect
6 38 (8.44%) Solutions Consultant
7 32 (7.11%) Presales Consultant
7 32 (7.11%) Senior Consultant
8 30 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
9 29 (6.44%) Cloud Consultant
10 24 (5.33%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 23 (5.11%) Lead
12 20 (4.44%) Technical Architect
13 19 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (4.22%) Senior Architect
14 18 (4.00%) VMware Architect
15 16 (3.56%) Infrastructure Architect
15 16 (3.56%) Security Consultant
16 15 (3.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
16 15 (3.33%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.22%) REST
2 15 (3.33%) SOAP
3 8 (1.78%) Terraform
4 6 (1.33%) React
5 5 (1.11%) ModSecurity
6 4 (0.89%) .NET
6 4 (0.89%) PySpark
6 4 (0.89%) Spring
7 3 (0.67%) MDX
7 3 (0.67%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.22%) CarPlay
9 1 (0.22%) HEVC
9 1 (0.22%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.22%) Pandas
9 1 (0.22%) Playwright
9 1 (0.22%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.22%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 27 (6.00%) Driving Licence
3 24 (5.33%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.56%) Private Cloud
7 13 (2.89%) CMDB
8 10 (2.22%) Blog
8 10 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.33%) Data Fabric
11 6 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.33%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 5 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.11%) Digital Currency
12 5 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.11%) Windows
2 16 (3.56%) Linux
3 11 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.56%) Android
5 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (20.00%) AI
2 66 (14.67%) Decision-Making
3 65 (14.44%) Roadmaps
4 64 (14.22%) Cybersecurity
5 63 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
7 52 (11.56%) Customer Engagement
8 46 (10.22%) Mentoring
8 46 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 44 (9.78%) Agile
10 44 (9.78%) Project Delivery
10 44 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
11 42 (9.33%) Commercial Awareness
12 39 (8.67%) Migration
13 36 (8.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 35 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (7.56%) Translating Business Requirements
16 32 (7.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.78%) SQL
2 18 (4.00%) Python
3 7 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.11%) C#
4 5 (1.11%) Java
5 4 (0.89%) C++
5 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
5 4 (0.89%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.67%) C
6 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.44%) PHP
8 1 (0.22%) Bicep
8 1 (0.22%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 77 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 55 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.33%) DV Cleared
4 27 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (5.78%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (5.56%) Degree
7 23 (5.11%) CCNP
7 23 (5.11%) VCAP
8 21 (4.67%) VCDX
9 18 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (2.44%) Azure Certification
11 10 (2.22%) CCIE
12 8 (1.78%) CISSP
13 6 (1.33%) CISM
13 6 (1.33%) CREST Certified
13 6 (1.33%) Dell Certification
13 6 (1.33%) RHCSA
14 5 (1.11%) CCNA
14 5 (1.11%) CRISC
14 5 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.22%) PMO
3 18 (4.00%) QA
4 17 (3.78%) GRC
5 12 (2.67%) GDPR
6 11 (2.44%) NIST
7 10 (2.22%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.11%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.67%) SLA
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS
10 2 (0.44%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.44%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.22%) GAAP
System Software
1 46 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (6.44%) vSphere
3 26 (5.78%) Active Directory
4 21 (4.67%) VMware NSX
5 17 (3.78%) Hyper-V
6 16 (3.56%) vCloud
7 6 (1.33%) Docker
8 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.44%) Firmware
10 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.33%) Avamar
3 6 (1.33%) CASB
3 6 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.33%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.33%) VxRail
4 5 (1.11%) Ansible
4 5 (1.11%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.22%) OpenView
5 1 (0.22%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 114 (25.33%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.33%) VMware
3 48 (10.67%) Cisco
4 27 (6.00%) NetApp
5 22 (4.89%) Dell
5 22 (4.89%) Nimble Storage
6 21 (4.67%) Broadcom
7 19 (4.22%) ServiceNow
8 18 (4.00%) SAP
9 17 (3.78%) Palo Alto
10 16 (3.56%) Databricks
10 16 (3.56%) Fortinet
11 15 (3.33%) Juniper
12 13 (2.89%) Oracle
13 12 (2.67%) Meraki
14 10 (2.22%) N-able
14 10 (2.22%) Veeam
15 9 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (1.56%) CheckPoint
17 6 (1.33%) Salesforce