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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 260 136
Rank change year-on-year +110 -124 +26
Permanent jobs citing Presales 386 177 672
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.79% 1.07% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.15% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 314 153 437
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +16.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £94,688 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +13.82% -18.00%

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 17,794 15,412 26,661
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.66% 93.25% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,991 9,129 20,081
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,900 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%

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 20 July 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 5 (1.30%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.30%) Confluence
2 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Appian
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.78%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.78%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) HFM
5 1 (0.26%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 120 (31.09%) Azure
2 62 (16.06%) AWS
3 37 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (8.81%) SaaS
5 26 (6.74%) GCP
6 23 (5.96%) Nutanix
6 23 (5.96%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.66%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.37%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.33%) Mimecast
9 9 (2.33%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.07%) OCI
11 7 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.81%) PaaS
12 6 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.04%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.07%) Firewall
2 32 (8.29%) WAN
3 27 (6.99%) LAN
4 22 (5.70%) VSAN
5 20 (5.18%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.63%) Network Security
7 10 (2.59%) Wireless
7 10 (2.59%) WLAN
8 9 (2.33%) MPLS
8 9 (2.33%) VPN
9 7 (1.81%) Broadband
10 6 (1.55%) DNS
10 6 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (1.55%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.55%) VLAN
11 4 (1.04%) IPv6
11 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.04%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.78%) DHCP
12 3 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (2.85%) Power BI
3 7 (1.81%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.81%) SAP HANA
4 5 (1.30%) Tableau
5 4 (1.04%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.04%) Looker
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.78%) Metadata
6 3 (0.78%) Pinecone
6 3 (0.78%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.26%) Big Data
7 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.55%) JIRA
2 4 (1.04%) Git
2 4 (1.04%) JUnit
2 4 (1.04%) Maven
2 4 (1.04%) Mockito
3 3 (0.78%) MLflow
3 3 (0.78%) Snyk
4 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) Appium
5 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 111 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.32%) Finance
3 39 (10.10%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.55%) Marketing
5 27 (6.99%) Presentation Skills
6 24 (6.22%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.33%) Games
10 9 (2.33%) Retail
11 7 (1.81%) Advertising
11 7 (1.81%) Law
12 6 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.04%) Banking
13 4 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.78%) Military
15 2 (0.52%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 135 (34.97%) Architect
2 124 (32.12%) Consultant
3 107 (27.72%) Solutions Architect
4 69 (17.88%) Senior
5 67 (17.36%) Presales Solution Architect
6 35 (9.07%) Solutions Consultant
7 34 (8.81%) Cloud Consultant
8 32 (8.29%) Presales Consultant
8 32 (8.29%) Senior Consultant
9 29 (7.51%) Technical Consultant
10 24 (6.22%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 21 (5.44%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 19 (4.92%) Senior Architect
13 18 (4.66%) Cloud Architect
13 18 (4.66%) VMware Architect
14 16 (4.15%) Account Manager
14 16 (4.15%) Cloud Solutions Architect
14 16 (4.15%) Infrastructure Architect
15 15 (3.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
15 15 (3.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.66%) REST
2 14 (3.63%) SOAP
3 6 (1.55%) React
4 5 (1.30%) ModSecurity
4 5 (1.30%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (1.04%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.04%) Spring
5 4 (1.04%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.78%) Faiss
6 3 (0.78%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.78%) vLLM
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.26%) .NET
8 1 (0.26%) HEVC
8 1 (0.26%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.26%) NumPy
8 1 (0.26%) Pandas
8 1 (0.26%) Playwright
8 1 (0.26%) PySpark
8 1 (0.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.21%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.70%) Driving Licence
3 19 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.40%) Private Cloud
5 13 (3.37%) CMDB
6 11 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.81%) Blog
10 7 (1.81%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.55%) Data Fabric
11 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.55%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 5 (1.30%) iPhone
12 5 (1.30%) Life Science
12 5 (1.30%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.77%) Windows
2 15 (3.89%) Linux
3 11 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.55%) Android
5 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.26%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (19.17%) AI
2 55 (14.25%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (12.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (11.92%) Roadmaps
6 45 (11.66%) Project Delivery
7 44 (11.40%) Decision-Making
8 42 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 41 (10.62%) Agile
9 41 (10.62%) Customer Engagement
10 39 (10.10%) Mentoring
10 39 (10.10%) Workshop Facilitation
11 33 (8.55%) Customer Requirements
12 30 (7.77%) ITIL
12 30 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (7.51%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (6.99%) Commercial Awareness
14 27 (6.99%) DevOps
15 26 (6.74%) Migration
16 25 (6.48%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.74%) SQL
2 17 (4.40%) Python
3 7 (1.81%) Java
3 7 (1.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.30%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.04%) Bash
5 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.78%) Go
6 3 (0.78%) Scala
7 2 (0.52%) C#
7 2 (0.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.26%) Bicep
8 1 (0.26%) C
8 1 (0.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 56 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 36 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (7.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (6.74%) CCNP
6 25 (6.48%) DV Cleared
6 25 (6.48%) VCAP
7 21 (5.44%) VCDX
8 17 (4.40%) Degree
9 12 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (2.85%) Azure Certification
10 11 (2.85%) CCIE
11 8 (2.07%) CCNA
11 8 (2.07%) RHCSA
12 6 (1.55%) CREST Certified
12 6 (1.55%) Dell Certification
13 5 (1.30%) CISM
13 5 (1.30%) CISSP
13 5 (1.30%) CRISC
13 5 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.92%) QA
2 15 (3.89%) PMO
3 14 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.11%) GRC
5 11 (2.85%) GDPR
6 6 (1.55%) NIST
6 6 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.30%) JSP 440
8 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.04%) SLA
9 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.52%) GAAP
11 1 (0.26%) IFRS
11 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 49 (12.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (8.03%) vSphere
3 22 (5.70%) Active Directory
3 22 (5.70%) VMware NSX
4 17 (4.40%) Hyper-V
5 16 (4.15%) vCloud
6 8 (2.07%) Docker
7 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (3.63%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.33%) Terraform
3 6 (1.55%) Avamar
3 6 (1.55%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (1.55%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (1.55%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (1.55%) VxRail
4 5 (1.30%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.04%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) OpenView
6 2 (0.52%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.26%) CASB
7 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 93 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.95%) VMware
3 39 (10.10%) Cisco
4 23 (5.96%) NetApp
5 22 (5.70%) Dell
5 22 (5.70%) Nimble Storage
6 21 (5.44%) Broadcom
7 20 (5.18%) ServiceNow
8 18 (4.66%) SAP
9 16 (4.15%) Fortinet
10 15 (3.89%) Databricks
10 15 (3.89%) Palo Alto
11 12 (3.11%) Meraki
11 12 (3.11%) Oracle
12 9 (2.33%) N-able
13 8 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (2.07%) Juniper
14 6 (1.55%) Barracuda Networks
14 6 (1.55%) Google
14 6 (1.55%) Sophos