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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 233 148
Rank change year-on-year +84 -85 +55
Permanent jobs citing Presales 451 214 514
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.82% 1.29% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.38% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 361 176 228
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

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 20,108 15,510 19,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.68% 88.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 8,405 11,799
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,188
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,015 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 29 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 (1.55%) 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
Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.33%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
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
4 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.44%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 134 (29.71%) Azure
2 54 (11.97%) AWS
3 44 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (8.43%) SaaS
5 33 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 29 (6.43%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (5.54%) Entra ID
8 22 (4.88%) GCP
9 18 (3.99%) Nutanix
10 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (2.44%) Power Automate
11 10 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.77%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (1.55%) Mimecast
15 6 (1.33%) OCI
15 6 (1.33%) PaaS
16 4 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.10%) Firewall
2 21 (4.66%) WAN
3 17 (3.77%) VSAN
4 16 (3.55%) LAN
5 14 (3.10%) Network Security
6 13 (2.88%) SD-WAN
7 12 (2.66%) Unified Communications
8 9 (2.00%) WLAN
9 8 (1.77%) DNS
10 6 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (1.33%) iSCSI
11 5 (1.11%) VLAN
11 5 (1.11%) VPN
12 4 (0.89%) DWDM
12 4 (0.89%) WebEx
12 4 (0.89%) Wireless
13 3 (0.67%) 5G
13 3 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.67%) DHCP
13 3 (0.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.33%) Power BI
2 12 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.00%) SAP HANA
4 6 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.33%) Metadata
5 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.67%) Tableau
7 2 (0.44%) Big Data
7 2 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.22%) Looker
8 1 (0.22%) Spatial Data
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%) MLflow
3 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.22%) JIRA
General
1 164 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 106 (23.50%) Finance
3 49 (10.86%) Presentation Skills
4 47 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.54%) Marketing
6 24 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (4.66%) Telecoms
8 20 (4.43%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.66%) Law
11 9 (2.00%) Local Government
12 8 (1.77%) Advertising
12 8 (1.77%) Games
12 8 (1.77%) Legal
13 7 (1.55%) Retail
14 5 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.11%) French Language
15 4 (0.89%) Automotive
15 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 151 (33.48%) Architect
2 129 (28.60%) Consultant
3 115 (25.50%) Solutions Architect
4 72 (15.96%) Senior
5 59 (13.08%) Presales Solution Architect
6 32 (7.10%) Solutions Consultant
7 29 (6.43%) Senior Consultant
7 29 (6.43%) Technical Consultant
8 28 (6.21%) Presales Consultant
9 27 (5.99%) Lead
10 22 (4.88%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 21 (4.66%) Cloud Consultant
12 20 (4.43%) Technical Architect
13 18 (3.99%) Cloud Architect
14 17 (3.77%) Senior Architect
15 16 (3.55%) Security Consultant
15 16 (3.55%) VMware Architect
16 15 (3.33%) Azure Architect
16 15 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 15 (3.33%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.21%) REST
2 15 (3.33%) SOAP
3 6 (1.33%) .NET
3 6 (1.33%) React
4 5 (1.11%) ModSecurity
5 4 (0.89%) PySpark
5 4 (0.89%) Spring
5 4 (0.89%) Terraform
6 3 (0.67%) CarPlay
6 3 (0.67%) MDX
6 3 (0.67%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.22%) HEVC
8 1 (0.22%) NumPy
8 1 (0.22%) Pandas
8 1 (0.22%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.22%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.20%) Data Centre
2 27 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.54%) Driving Licence
4 19 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.33%) CMDB
7 12 (2.66%) PACS
7 12 (2.66%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.55%) IoT
11 6 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 5 (1.11%) Blog
12 5 (1.11%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.11%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.99%) Windows
2 12 (2.66%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.44%) Linux
4 9 (2.00%) Android
5 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (22.17%) AI
2 72 (15.96%) Decision-Making
3 68 (15.08%) Roadmaps
3 68 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 65 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
5 59 (13.08%) Customer Engagement
6 58 (12.86%) Mentoring
7 52 (11.53%) Commercial Awareness
8 51 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 49 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (10.64%) Customer Requirements
11 46 (10.20%) Translating Business Requirements
12 44 (9.76%) Agile
13 43 (9.53%) Workshop Facilitation
14 42 (9.31%) Migration
15 41 (9.09%) Project Delivery
15 41 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
16 37 (8.20%) Business Development
17 36 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (7.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 26 (5.76%) SQL
2 15 (3.33%) Python
3 7 (1.55%) C#
3 7 (1.55%) Java
4 6 (1.33%) C++
4 6 (1.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.89%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.67%) C
6 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.67%) Embedded C++
7 2 (0.44%) PHP
8 1 (0.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 83 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.10%) DV Cleared
4 28 (6.21%) Degree
5 21 (4.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 20 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (3.77%) VCAP
7 17 (3.77%) VCDX
8 16 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.33%) CCNP
10 13 (2.88%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.77%) CISSP
12 7 (1.55%) CCIE
13 6 (1.33%) CISM
13 6 (1.33%) Dell Certification
14 5 (1.11%) CRISC
14 5 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 4 (0.89%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.89%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.21%) GRC
3 18 (3.99%) PMO
4 17 (3.77%) QA
5 14 (3.10%) GDPR
5 14 (3.10%) NIST
6 7 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.33%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.11%) JSP 440
8 5 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.10%) vSphere
3 17 (3.77%) Hyper-V
3 17 (3.77%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.66%) vCloud
5 7 (1.55%) Docker
6 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 22 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.21%) 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%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.67%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.22%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 130 (28.82%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.53%) VMware
3 39 (8.65%) Cisco
4 24 (5.32%) NetApp
5 22 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 18 (3.99%) Dell
6 18 (3.99%) Nimble Storage
7 17 (3.77%) Broadcom
7 17 (3.77%) SAP
8 15 (3.33%) Databricks
8 15 (3.33%) Juniper
9 12 (2.66%) Oracle
9 12 (2.66%) Palo Alto
10 11 (2.44%) Veeam
11 10 (2.22%) Fortinet
12 9 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.77%) Google
13 8 (1.77%) Meraki
14 7 (1.55%) N-able
14 7 (1.55%) Salesforce