Presales Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Presales
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Presales skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Presales over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 87 104
Rank change year-on-year -237 +17 +107
Permanent jobs citing Presales 143 1,073 1,282
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 3.17% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 3.48% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 121 446 497
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -20.65% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.82% -23.13% +14.29%

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 17,828 30,838 38,971
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.30% 91.21% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,671 23,338 27,094
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Presales
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Presales trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Presales
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Presales.

Presales salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Presales
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Presales over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Presales salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.50%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (3.50%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (3.50%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (3.50%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (3.50%) Oracle Receivables
1 5 (3.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.40%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle iRecruitment
3 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.17%) Azure
2 19 (13.29%) AWS
2 19 (13.29%) SaaS
3 15 (10.49%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.39%) IaaS
6 7 (4.90%) PaaS
7 6 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.20%) GCP
7 6 (4.20%) GitHub
7 6 (4.20%) OCI
8 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.50%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.10%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.10%) Serverless
10 3 (2.10%) Supabase
10 3 (2.10%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) Firewall
2 5 (3.50%) SAN
3 4 (2.80%) Internet
3 4 (2.80%) Network Security
3 4 (2.80%) VLAN
4 3 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.10%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (2.10%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.10%) SSL
4 3 (2.10%) VPN
4 3 (2.10%) VSAN
4 3 (2.10%) Wireless
5 2 (1.40%) DNS
5 2 (1.40%) IPsec
5 2 (1.40%) S/MIME
5 2 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.40%) X.509
6 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.59%) Power BI
2 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (3.50%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.80%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.80%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.70%) DB2
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
1 1 (0.70%) Git
1 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 60 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.87%) Finance
3 33 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 28 (19.58%) Marketing
5 19 (13.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.90%) Law
7 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.20%) Retail
8 5 (3.50%) Billing
8 5 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.80%) Back Office
9 4 (2.80%) Czech Language
9 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Automotive
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (34.97%) Consultant
2 31 (21.68%) Architect
3 26 (18.18%) Senior
4 12 (8.39%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.99%) Senior Consultant
6 9 (6.29%) Presales Consultant
7 8 (5.59%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (5.59%) Presales Specialist
7 8 (5.59%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 8 (5.59%) Solutions Consultant
8 7 (4.90%) Data Consultant
8 7 (4.90%) Implementation Consultant
9 6 (4.20%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.20%) Functional Consultant
9 6 (4.20%) IT Consultant
9 6 (4.20%) Presales Solution Architect
10 5 (3.50%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.50%) Infrastructure Support
10 5 (3.50%) Senior Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.50%) SAML
1 5 (3.50%) XML
2 4 (2.80%) .NET
3 3 (2.10%) CSS
3 3 (2.10%) FastAPI
3 3 (2.10%) HTML
3 3 (2.10%) JSON
3 3 (2.10%) Next.js
3 3 (2.10%) React
3 3 (2.10%) SOAP
3 3 (2.10%) Web Services
4 2 (1.40%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.40%) EJB
5 1 (0.70%) Ajax
5 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.70%) ISPF
5 1 (0.70%) LDAP
5 1 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.99%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.29%) PKI
4 5 (3.50%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.80%) Derivative
5 4 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.10%) Lidar
6 3 (2.10%) Tandem
7 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.40%) IoT
7 2 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.70%) CMDB
8 1 (0.70%) EPoS
8 1 (0.70%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.89%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Linux
3 7 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
2 25 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (14.69%) Roadmaps
4 19 (13.29%) Agile
5 16 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (11.19%) Project Delivery
6 15 (10.49%) CRM
6 15 (10.49%) DevOps
7 14 (9.79%) Customer Service
7 14 (9.79%) Mentoring
7 14 (9.79%) Migration
7 14 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (9.09%) Product Management
9 12 (8.39%) Analytics
9 12 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (8.39%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (8.39%) Data Integration
9 12 (8.39%) Fintech
9 12 (8.39%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.99%) SQL
2 7 (4.90%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.80%) Python
3 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.10%) C#
4 3 (2.10%) Swift
5 2 (1.40%) Java
6 1 (0.70%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.70%) JCL
6 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.70%) REXX
6 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.89%) Degree
3 15 (10.49%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.39%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.69%) CCNP
6 10 (6.99%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.59%) CISSP
8 7 (4.90%) CCNA
9 5 (3.50%) CISM
9 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.80%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.10%) CCSE
11 3 (2.10%) CCSM
11 3 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.40%) CEH
12 2 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) NIST
2 5 (3.50%) SLA
3 4 (2.80%) QA
4 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) COBIT
5 1 (0.70%) GRC
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (5.59%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.59%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (3.50%) Hyper-V
2 5 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.40%) Docker
4 1 (0.70%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.70%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 5 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.80%) Automic
3 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.40%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.70%) HP UCMDB
5 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.88%) Oracle
3 12 (8.39%) VMware
4 11 (7.69%) Cisco
5 9 (6.29%) Salesforce
6 8 (5.59%) Palo Alto
7 7 (4.90%) Fortinet
8 6 (4.20%) Veeam
9 5 (3.50%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.80%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.80%) Google
11 3 (2.10%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.10%) Databricks
11 3 (2.10%) SAP
11 3 (2.10%) YouTube
12 2 (1.40%) IBM
12 2 (1.40%) Juniper
12 2 (1.40%) Meraki
12 2 (1.40%) Thales
12 2 (1.40%) Workday