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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 253 158
Rank change year-on-year +89 -95 +1
Permanent jobs citing Presales 264 156 673
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.46% 1.16% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.22% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 191 115 446
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £89,375 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +13.82% -23.13%

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 15,017 12,797 29,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.92% 94.76% 91.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,508 8,900 23,578
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,599 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -11.29%

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 27 April 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 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.14%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.76%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.76%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.14%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.76%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 75 (28.41%) Azure
2 52 (19.70%) AWS
3 30 (11.36%) SaaS
4 24 (9.09%) GCP
5 18 (6.82%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.55%) Nutanix
8 9 (3.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (3.41%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (3.41%) Dagster
8 9 (3.41%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.41%) Serverless
8 9 (3.41%) Vertex AI
9 6 (2.27%) dbt
9 6 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.27%) Matillion
9 6 (2.27%) Mimecast
10 5 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.58%) WAN
2 15 (5.68%) SD-WAN
3 14 (5.30%) LAN
4 12 (4.55%) Firewall
5 10 (3.79%) VSAN
6 9 (3.41%) Network Security
7 7 (2.65%) MPLS
8 6 (2.27%) Wireless
9 5 (1.89%) Broadband
9 5 (1.89%) VPN
10 4 (1.52%) DNS
10 4 (1.52%) IPv6
11 3 (1.14%) DHCP
11 3 (1.14%) VoIP
12 2 (0.76%) ATM
12 2 (0.76%) Frame Relay
12 2 (0.76%) SNMP
12 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (3.41%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (3.41%) BigQuery
2 9 (3.41%) Delta Lake
2 9 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.41%) Looker
2 9 (3.41%) Pinecone
2 9 (3.41%) Tableau
2 9 (3.41%) Weaviate
3 5 (1.89%) Power BI
4 4 (1.52%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) Metadata
6 1 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.41%) MLflow
2 6 (2.27%) JIRA
3 3 (1.14%) Git
4 1 (0.38%) Appium
4 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 73 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.29%) Marketing
3 32 (12.12%) Finance
4 29 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.65%) Retail
10 6 (2.27%) Law
10 6 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.52%) Advertising
11 4 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.52%) Banking
11 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.52%) Games
11 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.14%) Local Government
13 2 (0.76%) German Language
13 2 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (31.44%) Consultant
2 77 (29.17%) Architect
3 56 (21.21%) Solutions Architect
4 51 (19.32%) Senior
5 25 (9.47%) Cloud Consultant
5 25 (9.47%) Presales Solution Architect
5 25 (9.47%) Senior Consultant
6 20 (7.58%) Solutions Consultant
7 18 (6.82%) Presales Consultant
8 16 (6.06%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 16 (6.06%) Technical Architect
9 15 (5.68%) Sales Executive
10 14 (5.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
10 14 (5.30%) Presales Engineer
10 14 (5.30%) Technical Consultant
11 13 (4.92%) ITSM Architect
11 13 (4.92%) Senior Architect
12 12 (4.55%) Integration Architect
12 12 (4.55%) Junior
12 12 (4.55%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.79%) PyTorch
1 10 (3.79%) TensorFlow
2 9 (3.41%) Faiss
2 9 (3.41%) vLLM
3 4 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (0.76%) React
5 1 (0.38%) .NET
5 1 (0.38%) HEVC
5 1 (0.38%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (0.38%) NumPy
5 1 (0.38%) Pandas
5 1 (0.38%) Playwright
5 1 (0.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.82%) Driving Licence
3 15 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.92%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.03%) Blog
8 6 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.27%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.89%) Life Science
10 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.76%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (0.76%) CMDB
11 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.76%) Video Editing
11 2 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.58%) Windows
2 16 (6.06%) Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.38%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.38%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (19.70%) Roadmaps
2 43 (16.29%) Project Delivery
3 41 (15.53%) AI
4 36 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (12.88%) Customer Engagement
6 33 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (10.61%) Workshop Facilitation
8 27 (10.23%) Mentoring
8 27 (10.23%) Project Management
8 27 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (9.47%) Agile
10 23 (8.71%) Decision-Making
11 22 (8.33%) Use Case
12 21 (7.95%) Migration
13 20 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (7.58%) Enterprise Architecture
13 20 (7.58%) ITSM
13 20 (7.58%) Strategic Thinking
14 19 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (7.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.58%) SQL
2 18 (6.82%) Python
3 10 (3.79%) Bash
4 9 (3.41%) Go
4 9 (3.41%) Java
4 9 (3.41%) Scala
5 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.76%) PHP
6 2 (0.76%) R
7 1 (0.38%) ABAP
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.09%) Degree
3 23 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (5.30%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.30%) CCNP
5 14 (5.30%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.92%) VCAP
6 13 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (3.41%) VCDX
8 8 (3.03%) CCNA
9 6 (2.27%) CREST Certified
10 5 (1.89%) CCIE
11 4 (1.52%) LPIC
11 4 (1.52%) MCSE
11 4 (1.52%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.52%) SAP Certification
12 3 (1.14%) CCSE
13 2 (0.76%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.41%) GDPR
1 9 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (3.41%) QA
2 7 (2.65%) PMO
3 6 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.14%) GAAP
5 3 (1.14%) SLA
6 2 (0.76%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.68%) vSphere
3 10 (3.79%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.41%) Docker
4 9 (3.41%) vCloud
5 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.38%) KVM
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (3.41%) Terraform
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.14%) Ansible
4 2 (0.76%) Avamar
4 2 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
4 2 (0.76%) OpenView
4 2 (0.76%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.76%) VxRail
5 1 (0.38%) Autotask
5 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 48 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.47%) VMware
3 23 (8.71%) Cisco
4 16 (6.06%) SAP
5 13 (4.92%) Databricks
5 13 (4.92%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.17%) Dell
6 11 (4.17%) NetApp
6 11 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
7 9 (3.41%) Broadcom
7 9 (3.41%) Palantir
8 8 (3.03%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.27%) Barracuda Networks
9 6 (2.27%) Google
9 6 (2.27%) Meraki
9 6 (2.27%) N-able
9 6 (2.27%) Sophos
10 5 (1.89%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.52%) Sage