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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 238 160
Rank change year-on-year +49 -78 -8
Permanent jobs citing Presales 220 159 637
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.30% 1.23% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.29% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 151 110 454
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,050 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +17.89% -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 14,237 12,283 28,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.42% 95.05% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,595 8,796 23,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,806
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 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 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.36%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.91%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.91%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 13 (5.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.91%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.91%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.91%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.45%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.45%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.73%) Azure
2 44 (20.00%) AWS
3 31 (14.09%) SaaS
4 21 (9.55%) GCP
4 21 (9.55%) Snowflake
5 14 (6.36%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.55%) Serverless
8 9 (4.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (4.09%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (4.09%) Dagster
8 9 (4.09%) Vertex AI
9 6 (2.73%) dbt
9 6 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.73%) Matillion
10 5 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.27%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.82%) Alation
11 4 (1.82%) Asana
11 4 (1.82%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.55%) WAN
2 16 (7.27%) SD-WAN
3 15 (6.82%) LAN
4 11 (5.00%) Firewall
5 8 (3.64%) MPLS
6 6 (2.73%) Network Security
6 6 (2.73%) Wireless
7 5 (2.27%) Broadband
7 5 (2.27%) VPN
7 5 (2.27%) VSAN
8 4 (1.82%) IPv6
8 4 (1.82%) VoIP
9 3 (1.36%) ATM
9 3 (1.36%) Frame Relay
9 3 (1.36%) SNMP
9 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (5.91%) BigQuery
2 13 (5.91%) Tableau
3 9 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.09%) Apache Iceberg
3 9 (4.09%) Delta Lake
3 9 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.09%) Looker
3 9 (4.09%) Pinecone
3 9 (4.09%) Power BI
3 9 (4.09%) Weaviate
4 5 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.27%) Metadata
5 4 (1.82%) DataStage
5 4 (1.82%) QlikView
6 2 (0.91%) Big Data
6 2 (0.91%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.09%) MLflow
2 5 (2.27%) JIRA
3 4 (1.82%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.82%) ERwin
3 4 (1.82%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.45%) Appium
4 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.45%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 70 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.27%) Marketing
3 30 (13.64%) Finance
4 29 (13.18%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.91%) Retail
7 8 (3.64%) Banking
7 8 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.73%) Law
9 5 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Advertising
10 4 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Games
10 4 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.36%) German Language
11 3 (1.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (32.27%) Consultant
2 68 (30.91%) Architect
3 52 (23.64%) Solutions Architect
4 40 (18.18%) Senior
5 23 (10.45%) Senior Consultant
6 20 (9.09%) Presales Solution Architect
7 14 (6.36%) Presales Consultant
8 13 (5.91%) Cloud Consultant
8 13 (5.91%) Lead
9 11 (5.00%) Data Consultant
9 11 (5.00%) Integration Architect
9 11 (5.00%) Senior Architect
10 10 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
10 10 (4.55%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 10 (4.55%) ITSM Architect
10 10 (4.55%) Solutions Consultant
10 10 (4.55%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.55%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (4.09%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.09%) Faiss
1 9 (4.09%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.09%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.09%) vLLM
2 4 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (0.91%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.45%) .NET
4 1 (0.45%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.36%) Public Cloud
2 13 (5.91%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.64%) Blog
5 8 (3.64%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.18%) Web Conferencing
7 5 (2.27%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.82%) Life Science
8 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.82%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.91%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.91%) BBC
9 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.91%) Video Editing
10 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.18%) Windows
2 16 (7.27%) Linux
3 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.45%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.45%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.18%) Roadmaps
2 41 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (17.73%) Project Delivery
4 38 (17.27%) AI
5 30 (13.64%) Customer Engagement
6 26 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (11.82%) Project Management
7 25 (11.36%) Mentoring
8 24 (10.91%) Migration
8 24 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (10.91%) Workshop Facilitation
9 22 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (9.55%) Decision-Making
11 20 (9.09%) Agile
11 20 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
12 19 (8.64%) Computer Science
12 19 (8.64%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (8.18%) CI/CD
13 18 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.18%) SQL
2 17 (7.73%) Python
3 10 (4.55%) Bash
4 9 (4.09%) Go
4 9 (4.09%) Java
4 9 (4.09%) Scala
5 2 (0.91%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.91%) R
6 1 (0.45%) ABAP
6 1 (0.45%) C#
6 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (14.09%) Degree
2 30 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (9.55%) SC Cleared
5 19 (8.64%) Azure Certification
6 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (7.27%) CCNP
8 13 (5.91%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.55%) CCNA
10 8 (3.64%) VCAP
10 8 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (2.73%) CCIE
11 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.27%) CREST Certified
12 5 (2.27%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.82%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.82%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.82%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.82%) SAP Certification
13 4 (1.82%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.09%) GDPR
2 8 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.18%) QA
4 5 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.36%) GAAP
6 3 (1.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.91%) NIST
7 2 (0.91%) PMO
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) IFRS
8 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.09%) Docker
3 8 (3.64%) vSphere
4 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.27%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.82%) vCloud
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) KVM
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (6.36%) Terraform
2 3 (1.36%) Ansible
2 3 (1.36%) OpenView
2 3 (1.36%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.45%) Autotask
4 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 37 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.91%) Cisco
3 22 (10.00%) SAP
4 16 (7.27%) Databricks
5 14 (6.36%) VMware
6 12 (5.45%) Fortinet
7 9 (4.09%) Palantir
8 8 (3.64%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.18%) Google
10 6 (2.73%) Meraki
11 5 (2.27%) Informatica
11 5 (2.27%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.82%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.82%) Dell
12 4 (1.82%) IBM
12 4 (1.82%) NetApp
12 4 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
12 4 (1.82%) Sage
13 3 (1.36%) Barracuda Networks
13 3 (1.36%) ServiceNow