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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 256 158
Rank change year-on-year +72 -98 +5
Permanent jobs citing Presales 240 144 670
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 1.10% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.16% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 168 103 457
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +13.82% -23.13%
75th Percentile £94,063 £98,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,500 £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 14,527 12,420 29,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.78% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,146 8,885 23,513
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 15 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 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.25%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.83%) Avid Media Composer
2 2 (0.83%) Pro Tools
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.25%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.83%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.42%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.42%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.92%) Azure
2 45 (18.75%) AWS
3 29 (12.08%) SaaS
4 20 (8.33%) GCP
5 19 (7.92%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.75%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (3.75%) Dagster
8 9 (3.75%) Serverless
8 9 (3.75%) Vertex AI
9 8 (3.33%) Nutanix
10 6 (2.50%) dbt
10 6 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.50%) Matillion
10 6 (2.50%) Mimecast
11 5 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.67%) Asana
12 4 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.92%) WAN
2 15 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 14 (5.83%) LAN
4 12 (5.00%) Firewall
5 8 (3.33%) Network Security
5 8 (3.33%) VSAN
6 6 (2.50%) MPLS
6 6 (2.50%) Wireless
7 5 (2.08%) Broadband
7 5 (2.08%) VPN
8 4 (1.67%) IPv6
9 3 (1.25%) DNS
9 3 (1.25%) VoIP
10 2 (0.83%) ATM
10 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.83%) DHCP
10 2 (0.83%) Frame Relay
10 2 (0.83%) SNMP
10 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 10 (4.17%) Tableau
3 9 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.75%) Apache Iceberg
3 9 (3.75%) Delta Lake
3 9 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.75%) Looker
3 9 (3.75%) Pinecone
3 9 (3.75%) Weaviate
4 5 (2.08%) Power BI
5 4 (1.67%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.83%) Metadata
7 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) DataStage
8 1 (0.42%) QlikView
8 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (3.75%) MLflow
2 6 (2.50%) JIRA
3 3 (1.25%) Git
4 1 (0.42%) Appium
4 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.42%) ERwin
4 1 (0.42%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 69 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.83%) Marketing
3 29 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.67%) Finance
5 19 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.75%) Retail
9 8 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.50%) Law
10 6 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.08%) Banking
12 4 (1.67%) Advertising
12 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.67%) Games
12 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.25%) Local Government
14 2 (0.83%) German Language
14 2 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (32.08%) Consultant
2 72 (30.00%) Architect
3 53 (22.08%) Solutions Architect
4 45 (18.75%) Senior
5 24 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
6 23 (9.58%) Presales Solution Architect
7 20 (8.33%) Cloud Consultant
8 16 (6.67%) Presales Consultant
9 15 (6.25%) Solutions Consultant
10 13 (5.42%) Presales Engineer
10 13 (5.42%) Technical Architect
11 12 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
11 12 (5.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 12 (5.00%) ITSM Architect
11 12 (5.00%) Junior
12 11 (4.58%) Integration Architect
12 11 (4.58%) Senior Architect
12 11 (4.58%) Technical Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.17%) Data Consultant
13 10 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 10 (4.17%) TensorFlow
2 9 (3.75%) Faiss
2 9 (3.75%) vLLM
3 4 (1.67%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.42%) .NET
4 1 (0.42%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.42%) NumPy
4 1 (0.42%) Pandas
4 1 (0.42%) Playwright
4 1 (0.42%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.83%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.42%) Driving Licence
5 12 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.75%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.33%) Blog
7 8 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.33%) Web Conferencing
8 5 (2.08%) Life Science
9 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.83%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (0.83%) BBC
11 2 (0.83%) CMDB
11 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.83%) Video Editing
12 1 (0.42%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.92%) Windows
2 16 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.42%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.42%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (20.83%) Roadmaps
2 41 (17.08%) Project Delivery
3 39 (16.25%) AI
4 34 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (12.92%) Customer Engagement
6 26 (10.83%) Project Management
6 26 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 24 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 23 (9.58%) Agile
9 22 (9.17%) Decision-Making
10 20 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (8.33%) Migration
10 20 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
11 19 (7.92%) ITSM
11 19 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (7.50%) Use Case
13 17 (7.08%) Customer Requirements
13 17 (7.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.92%) SQL
2 18 (7.50%) Python
3 10 (4.17%) Bash
4 9 (3.75%) Go
4 9 (3.75%) Java
4 9 (3.75%) Scala
5 2 (0.83%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.83%) R
6 1 (0.42%) ABAP
6 1 (0.42%) C#
6 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.25%) Degree
3 23 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 15 (6.25%) CCNP
6 14 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.42%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.58%) VCAP
8 11 (4.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.33%) CCNA
10 7 (2.92%) VCDX
11 6 (2.50%) CREST Certified
12 5 (2.08%) CCIE
13 4 (1.67%) LPIC
13 4 (1.67%) MCSE
13 4 (1.67%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.67%) SAP Certification
14 3 (1.25%) CCSE
14 3 (1.25%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.75%) GDPR
1 9 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (3.75%) QA
2 6 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.67%) PMO
4 3 (1.25%) GAAP
4 3 (1.25%) SLA
5 2 (0.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
6 1 (0.42%) IFRS
6 1 (0.42%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (7.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.58%) vSphere
3 9 (3.75%) Docker
4 8 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.33%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.92%) vCloud
6 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.42%) KVM
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (4.17%) Terraform
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.25%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) OpenView
4 2 (0.83%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.42%) Autotask
5 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 43 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.58%) Cisco
3 19 (7.92%) VMware
4 18 (7.50%) SAP
5 14 (5.83%) Databricks
6 13 (5.42%) Fortinet
7 9 (3.75%) Palantir
8 8 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.92%) Broadcom
9 7 (2.92%) Dell
9 7 (2.92%) NetApp
9 7 (2.92%) Nimble Storage
10 6 (2.50%) Barracuda Networks
10 6 (2.50%) Meraki
10 6 (2.50%) N-able
10 6 (2.50%) Sophos
11 5 (2.08%) Google
11 5 (2.08%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.67%) Sage