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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 265 156
Rank change year-on-year +82 -109 +4
Permanent jobs citing Presales 231 145 664
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.34% 1.12% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.18% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 158 104 460
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +15.85% -23.13%
75th Percentile £94,688 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,375 £100,000
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 14,365 12,253 29,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.40% 94.79% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,024 8,885 23,521
10th Percentile £31,788 £32,500 £33,769
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%

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 9 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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.16%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.30%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.87%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.87%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.30%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.27%) Azure
2 44 (19.05%) AWS
3 29 (12.55%) SaaS
4 20 (8.66%) GCP
5 19 (8.23%) Snowflake
6 12 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.90%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (3.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (3.90%) Dagster
7 9 (3.90%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.90%) Serverless
7 9 (3.90%) Vertex AI
8 6 (2.60%) dbt
8 6 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.60%) Matillion
8 6 (2.60%) Mimecast
9 5 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.16%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.23%) WAN
2 15 (6.49%) SD-WAN
3 14 (6.06%) LAN
4 12 (5.19%) Firewall
5 8 (3.46%) Network Security
6 6 (2.60%) MPLS
6 6 (2.60%) Wireless
7 5 (2.16%) Broadband
7 5 (2.16%) VPN
7 5 (2.16%) VSAN
8 4 (1.73%) IPv6
9 3 (1.30%) VoIP
10 2 (0.87%) ATM
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.87%) DNS
10 2 (0.87%) Frame Relay
10 2 (0.87%) SNMP
10 2 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.33%) BigQuery
2 10 (4.33%) Tableau
3 9 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.90%) Apache Iceberg
3 9 (3.90%) Delta Lake
3 9 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.90%) Looker
3 9 (3.90%) Pinecone
3 9 (3.90%) Weaviate
4 4 (1.73%) Power BI
4 4 (1.73%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.87%) Metadata
5 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.43%) Big Data
6 1 (0.43%) DataStage
6 1 (0.43%) QlikView
6 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.90%) MLflow
2 6 (2.60%) JIRA
3 2 (0.87%) Git
4 1 (0.43%) Appium
4 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.43%) ERwin
4 1 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 68 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.88%) Marketing
3 29 (12.55%) Finance
3 29 (12.55%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.36%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.90%) Retail
8 8 (3.46%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.60%) Law
9 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.16%) Banking
11 4 (1.73%) Advertising
11 4 (1.73%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.73%) Games
11 4 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.30%) Local Government
13 2 (0.87%) German Language
13 2 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (31.17%) Consultant
2 70 (30.30%) Architect
3 52 (22.51%) Solutions Architect
4 42 (18.18%) Senior
5 22 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
6 21 (9.09%) Presales Solution Architect
7 16 (6.93%) Cloud Consultant
8 14 (6.06%) Presales Consultant
9 13 (5.63%) Presales Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) ITSM Architect
10 12 (5.19%) Junior
10 12 (5.19%) Solutions Consultant
10 12 (5.19%) Technical Architect
11 11 (4.76%) Integration Architect
11 11 (4.76%) Senior Architect
11 11 (4.76%) Technical Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (4.33%) Data Consultant
12 10 (4.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 9 (3.90%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.33%) PyTorch
1 10 (4.33%) TensorFlow
2 9 (3.90%) Faiss
2 9 (3.90%) vLLM
3 4 (1.73%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.43%) .NET
4 1 (0.43%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.43%) NumPy
4 1 (0.43%) Pandas
4 1 (0.43%) Playwright
4 1 (0.43%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.23%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 13 (5.63%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.46%) Blog
5 8 (3.46%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.46%) Web Conferencing
6 6 (2.60%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.16%) Life Science
8 4 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.87%) BBC
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.87%) Video Editing
10 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.79%) Windows
2 16 (6.93%) Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.21%) Roadmaps
2 42 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 39 (16.88%) AI
4 35 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (12.99%) Customer Engagement
6 26 (11.26%) Project Management
6 26 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (10.39%) Mentoring
8 23 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (9.96%) Workshop Facilitation
9 22 (9.52%) Agile
9 22 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (8.66%) Strategic Thinking
12 19 (8.23%) Decision-Making
12 19 (8.23%) Migration
13 18 (7.79%) ITSM
14 17 (7.36%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (6.93%) CI/CD
15 16 (6.93%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.79%) Python
1 18 (7.79%) SQL
2 10 (4.33%) Bash
3 9 (3.90%) Go
3 9 (3.90%) Java
3 9 (3.90%) Scala
4 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.87%) R
5 1 (0.43%) ABAP
5 1 (0.43%) C#
5 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.12%) Degree
3 22 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 21 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 15 (6.49%) CCNP
6 14 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.63%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.46%) CCNA
8 8 (3.46%) VCAP
8 8 (3.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (2.60%) CREST Certified
10 5 (2.16%) CCIE
11 4 (1.73%) LPIC
11 4 (1.73%) MCSE
11 4 (1.73%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.73%) SAP Certification
11 4 (1.73%) VCDX
12 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.30%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.90%) GDPR
1 9 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (3.90%) QA
2 6 (2.60%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.30%) GAAP
4 3 (1.30%) SLA
5 2 (0.87%) NIST
5 2 (0.87%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) IFRS
6 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.90%) Docker
3 8 (3.46%) vSphere
4 7 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.16%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.73%) vCloud
7 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (4.33%) Terraform
2 3 (1.30%) Ansible
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) OpenView
3 2 (0.87%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.43%) Autotask
4 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 42 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.96%) Cisco
3 19 (8.23%) SAP
4 15 (6.49%) VMware
5 14 (6.06%) Databricks
6 13 (5.63%) Fortinet
7 9 (3.90%) Palantir
8 8 (3.46%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.03%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.60%) Barracuda Networks
10 6 (2.60%) Meraki
10 6 (2.60%) N-able
10 6 (2.60%) Sophos
11 5 (2.16%) Google
11 5 (2.16%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.73%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.73%) Dell
12 4 (1.73%) NetApp
12 4 (1.73%) Nimble Storage
12 4 (1.73%) Sage