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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 203 167
Rank change year-on-year +1 -36 -12
Permanent jobs citing Presales 200 248 547
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 1.66% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.74% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 128 126 380
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £59,563 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +17.89% -23.13%
75th Percentile £95,625 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £116,625 £104,375 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -18.75%

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 14,107 14,225 25,790
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.74% 95.08% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 8,743 21,428
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 February 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 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.50%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.00%) Confluence
4 2 (1.00%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) AutoCAD
1 2 (1.00%) Avid Media Composer
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.00%) Pro Tools
1 2 (1.00%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 17 (8.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.50%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.00%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.50%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.50%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 54 (27.00%) Azure
2 37 (18.50%) AWS
3 35 (17.50%) SaaS
4 20 (10.00%) GCP
4 20 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 18 (9.00%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.50%) Serverless
7 10 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.50%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (4.50%) Azure Machine Learning
8 9 (4.50%) Dagster
8 9 (4.50%) Vertex AI
9 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.00%) dbt
9 6 (3.00%) Matillion
10 4 (2.00%) Alation
10 4 (2.00%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (2.00%) GitHub
10 4 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.00%) WAN
2 11 (5.50%) SD-WAN
3 8 (4.00%) LAN
3 8 (4.00%) MPLS
4 5 (2.50%) Firewall
5 4 (2.00%) Broadband
5 4 (2.00%) VoIP
5 4 (2.00%) VPN
5 4 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.50%) Network Security
6 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.00%) ATM
7 2 (1.00%) Frame Relay
7 2 (1.00%) SNMP
8 1 (0.50%) DNS
8 1 (0.50%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.50%) HTTP
8 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.50%) SMTP
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.50%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.50%) BigQuery
2 13 (6.50%) Tableau
3 11 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (4.50%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (4.50%) Looker
4 9 (4.50%) Pinecone
4 9 (4.50%) Power BI
4 9 (4.50%) Weaviate
5 6 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.00%) DataStage
6 4 (2.00%) Metadata
6 4 (2.00%) QlikView
7 2 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.00%) Big Data
7 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.50%) MLflow
2 8 (4.00%) JIRA
3 4 (2.00%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.00%) ERwin
3 4 (2.00%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 65 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.00%) Finance
3 31 (15.50%) Marketing
3 31 (15.50%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (7.00%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (7.00%) Retail
5 13 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.50%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.00%) Law
8 5 (2.50%) Banking
8 5 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.00%) German Language
9 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.00%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.50%) Advertising
10 3 (1.50%) Games
10 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (31.50%) Architect
1 63 (31.50%) Consultant
2 48 (24.00%) Solutions Architect
3 33 (16.50%) Senior
4 20 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
5 14 (7.00%) Lead
6 13 (6.50%) Presales Consultant
6 13 (6.50%) Presales Solution Architect
7 12 (6.00%) Data Consultant
7 12 (6.00%) Integration Architect
8 10 (5.00%) IT Consultant
8 10 (5.00%) ITSM Architect
8 10 (5.00%) SAP Architect
8 10 (5.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 10 (5.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (4.50%) Senior Architect
10 8 (4.00%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.50%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.50%) Faiss
1 9 (4.50%) PyTorch
1 9 (4.50%) TensorFlow
1 9 (4.50%) vLLM
2 8 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.00%) PySpark
3 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 10 (5.00%) Product Ownership
1 10 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 9 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.50%) Web Conferencing
5 5 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.50%) Life Science
6 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.00%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.50%) Blog
8 2 (1.00%) BBC
8 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) Video Editing
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.00%) Windows
2 6 (3.00%) Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.50%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (22.50%) Roadmaps
2 43 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (20.50%) AI
4 35 (17.50%) Project Delivery
5 33 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (14.00%) Customer Engagement
7 25 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 24 (12.00%) Agile
9 23 (11.50%) Decision-Making
9 23 (11.50%) Migration
9 23 (11.50%) Workshop Facilitation
10 22 (11.00%) CI/CD
10 22 (11.00%) Project Management
10 22 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (10.50%) Strategic Thinking
12 20 (10.00%) Analytics
13 19 (9.50%) Business Development
13 19 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (9.50%) Computer Science
13 19 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.00%) Python
1 16 (8.00%) SQL
2 10 (5.00%) Bash
3 9 (4.50%) Go
3 9 (4.50%) Java
3 9 (4.50%) Scala
4 2 (1.00%) R
5 1 (0.50%) ABAP
5 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.50%) Degree
3 27 (13.50%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.50%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.50%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.50%) CCNA
8 7 (3.50%) CCNP
8 7 (3.50%) Master's Degree
9 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.00%) CISM
10 4 (2.00%) CISSP
10 4 (2.00%) CRISC
10 4 (2.00%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.00%) HNC
10 4 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 4 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (2.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.00%) GDPR
2 7 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.00%) NIST
3 6 (3.00%) QA
4 5 (2.50%) GRC
5 4 (2.00%) JSP 440
5 4 (2.00%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.50%) NCSC
7 2 (1.00%) GAAP
8 1 (0.50%) GxP
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.50%) KVM
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.50%) Terraform
2 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) OpenView
3 2 (1.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Autotask
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 32 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.50%) SAP
3 14 (7.00%) Cisco
3 14 (7.00%) Databricks
4 9 (4.50%) Fortinet
4 9 (4.50%) Palantir
5 7 (3.50%) Google
6 5 (2.50%) Ariba
7 4 (2.00%) IBM
7 4 (2.00%) Informatica
7 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.50%) Juniper
8 3 (1.50%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.50%) Sage
8 3 (1.50%) VMware
9 2 (1.00%) Autodesk
9 2 (1.00%) EMC
9 2 (1.00%) HP
9 2 (1.00%) IFS
9 2 (1.00%) Salesforce