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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 218 159
Rank change year-on-year +19 -59 0
Permanent jobs citing Presales 201 225 593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 1.53% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.60% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 128 120 419
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £59,563 £52,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,375 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -21.88%

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 14,323 14,051 27,011
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.46% 95.24% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,353 8,959 22,405
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,103
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 7 March 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 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.47%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.00%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.49%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.49%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (1.00%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (1.00%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 16 (7.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.49%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.00%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.50%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.50%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.87%) Azure
2 38 (18.91%) AWS
3 34 (16.92%) SaaS
4 21 (10.45%) GCP
5 20 (9.95%) Snowflake
6 17 (8.46%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.47%) Serverless
8 10 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.48%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (4.48%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (4.48%) Dagster
9 9 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.48%) Vertex AI
10 6 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.99%) dbt
10 6 (2.99%) Matillion
11 4 (1.99%) Alation
11 4 (1.99%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (1.99%) GitHub
11 4 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.46%) WAN
2 13 (6.47%) SD-WAN
3 10 (4.98%) LAN
4 8 (3.98%) MPLS
5 7 (3.48%) Firewall
6 5 (2.49%) Broadband
6 5 (2.49%) VPN
7 4 (1.99%) Network Security
7 4 (1.99%) VoIP
7 4 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.00%) ATM
9 2 (1.00%) Frame Relay
9 2 (1.00%) SNMP
10 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.50%) IGMP
10 1 (0.50%) NGN
10 1 (0.50%) VLAN
10 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.46%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.47%) BigQuery
2 13 (6.47%) Tableau
3 11 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.48%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (4.48%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.48%) Looker
4 9 (4.48%) Pinecone
4 9 (4.48%) Power BI
4 9 (4.48%) Weaviate
5 6 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.99%) DataStage
6 4 (1.99%) Metadata
6 4 (1.99%) QlikView
7 2 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.00%) Big Data
7 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.48%) MLflow
2 7 (3.48%) JIRA
3 4 (1.99%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.99%) ERwin
3 4 (1.99%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 64 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.41%) Finance
3 33 (16.42%) Marketing
4 29 (14.43%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.97%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.47%) Retail
7 8 (3.98%) Law
7 8 (3.98%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.49%) Banking
8 5 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.99%) German Language
9 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.99%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Advertising
10 3 (1.49%) Games
10 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.00%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (31.34%) Architect
1 63 (31.34%) Consultant
2 47 (23.38%) Solutions Architect
3 33 (16.42%) Senior
4 20 (9.95%) Senior Consultant
5 14 (6.97%) Presales Consultant
6 13 (6.47%) Lead
6 13 (6.47%) Presales Solution Architect
7 12 (5.97%) Data Consultant
7 12 (5.97%) Integration Architect
8 10 (4.98%) IT Consultant
8 10 (4.98%) ITSM Architect
8 10 (4.98%) Technical Architect
8 10 (4.98%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (4.48%) SAP Architect
9 9 (4.48%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.48%) Senior Architect
10 8 (3.98%) Azure Architect
10 8 (3.98%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.48%) Faiss
1 9 (4.48%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.48%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.48%) vLLM
2 7 (3.48%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.00%) PySpark
3 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.97%) Public Cloud
2 10 (4.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.48%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.48%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (2.49%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.49%) Life Science
6 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.99%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.49%) Blog
7 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.00%) BBC
8 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.48%) Windows
2 7 (3.48%) Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.50%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
1 44 (21.89%) Roadmaps
2 41 (20.40%) AI
3 37 (18.41%) Project Delivery
4 32 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (14.43%) Customer Engagement
6 26 (12.94%) Mentoring
7 23 (11.44%) Decision-Making
7 23 (11.44%) Migration
7 23 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (10.95%) Project Management
8 22 (10.95%) Workshop Facilitation
9 21 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (10.45%) Strategic Thinking
10 20 (9.95%) Agile
10 20 (9.95%) CI/CD
11 19 (9.45%) Analytics
11 19 (9.45%) Business Development
11 19 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (8.96%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.96%) Python
1 16 (7.96%) SQL
2 10 (4.98%) Bash
3 9 (4.48%) Go
3 9 (4.48%) Java
3 9 (4.48%) Scala
4 2 (1.00%) R
5 1 (0.50%) ABAP
5 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.93%) Degree
3 26 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.46%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.47%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.98%) CCNA
8 8 (3.98%) CCNP
9 6 (2.99%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.99%) HNC
12 3 (1.49%) CCIE
12 3 (1.49%) CISM
12 3 (1.49%) CISMP
12 3 (1.49%) CISSP
12 3 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (1.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.98%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.99%) QA
4 5 (2.49%) NIST
5 4 (1.99%) GRC
6 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.49%) JSP 440
6 3 (1.49%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.00%) GAAP
7 2 (1.00%) NCSC
8 1 (0.50%) GxP
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.47%) Docker
2 5 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.00%) vSphere
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) KVM
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (5.97%) Terraform
2 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) OpenView
3 2 (1.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Autotask
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.94%) SAP
3 16 (7.96%) Cisco
4 14 (6.97%) Databricks
5 9 (4.48%) Fortinet
5 9 (4.48%) Palantir
6 7 (3.48%) Google
7 5 (2.49%) VMware
8 4 (1.99%) Ariba
8 4 (1.99%) IBM
8 4 (1.99%) Informatica
8 4 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) Juniper
9 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.49%) Sage
9 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.00%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.00%) Panasonic
10 2 (1.00%) Ribbon
10 2 (1.00%) Riverbed