Presales
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Presales skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Presales over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 146 239
Rank change year-on-year -19 +93 -66
Permanent jobs citing Presales 1,791 2,451 2,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 2.47% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 2.59% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 975 951 1,669
10th Percentile £26,250 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £82,250 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Presales is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Presales
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Presales as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Presales.

Salary trend for Presales in the UK

Presales
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Presales over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Presales in the UK

Presales
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Presales within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -4 1,424 £60,000 -22.58% 492
UK excluding London -5 1,202 £50,000 -23.08% 276
Work from Home +15 1,078 £61,500 -20.65% 270
London -35 390 £80,000 -5.88% 209
South East +74 387 £45,000 -30.77% 78
North of England -18 250 £42,500 -32.00% 60
North West -18 182 £42,500 -34.62% 30
Midlands +5 172 £57,500 -17.86% 59
South West +3 134 £60,000 -14.29% 32
Scotland -82 110 £60,000 -25.00% 21
West Midlands +22 100 £57,500 -17.86% 41
East of England +17 78 £50,000 -7.41% 24
Yorkshire +29 70 £57,500 -8.00% 24
East Midlands -8 68 £60,000 -14.29% 18
Northern Ireland +10 45 £57,500 - 5
Wales -17 39 £56,250 -6.25% 5
North East -22 8 £48,750 +47.73% 6
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

Presales
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 90 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 61 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (2.29%) IIS
4 38 (2.12%) CMS
4 38 (2.12%) Umbraco
5 36 (2.01%) Headless CMS
5 36 (2.01%) Kentico
5 36 (2.01%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.11%) nginx
7 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.056%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.056%) Confluence
8 1 (0.056%) Documentum
8 1 (0.056%) FileNet
8 1 (0.056%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 34 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.34%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.34%) Autodesk Inventor
5 6 (0.34%) Fusion 360
6 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.056%) Revit
Business Applications
1 63 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 20 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
4 13 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 12 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
6 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
8 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI-AP
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 511 (28.53%) Azure
2 287 (16.02%) Microsoft 365
3 268 (14.96%) AWS
4 173 (9.66%) SaaS
5 156 (8.71%) Power Platform
6 111 (6.20%) Dynamics 365
7 110 (6.14%) GCP
8 105 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (3.18%) Entra ID
10 40 (2.23%) PowerApps
11 37 (2.07%) Power Automate
12 36 (2.01%) Kontent
13 30 (1.68%) OCI
14 29 (1.62%) PaaS
15 28 (1.56%) IaaS
16 23 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 20 (1.12%) OneDrive
18 20 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 140 (7.82%) WAN
2 102 (5.70%) SD-WAN
3 96 (5.36%) Firewall
4 87 (4.86%) LAN
5 53 (2.96%) Wireless
6 45 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
7 41 (2.29%) VPN
8 32 (1.79%) Unified Communications
9 28 (1.56%) SAN
10 27 (1.51%) Internet
11 25 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
11 25 (1.40%) Network Security
11 25 (1.40%) VLAN
12 21 (1.17%) BGP
12 21 (1.17%) DNS
13 20 (1.12%) WLAN
14 19 (1.06%) TCP/IP
15 18 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
16 16 (0.89%) VoIP
17 14 (0.78%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (3.74%) Power BI
3 59 (3.29%) Data Lake
4 52 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (1.17%) Metadata
9 14 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
9 14 (0.78%) QlikView
10 9 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.45%) MySQL
12 7 (0.39%) Big Data
13 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
14 4 (0.22%) DTS
14 4 (0.22%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 2 (0.11%) MongoDB
16 2 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (1.12%) Visual Studio
2 17 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (0.34%) Git
4 5 (0.28%) GitLab
4 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (0.28%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.22%) JIRA
6 3 (0.17%) GCC
7 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
General
1 550 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 251 (14.01%) Finance
3 237 (13.23%) Presentation Skills
4 115 (6.42%) Marketing
5 102 (5.70%) Billing
6 97 (5.42%) Retail
7 74 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (2.46%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 34 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.28%) Legal
13 23 (1.28%) Local Government
13 23 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.06%) Law
15 18 (1.01%) Back Office
15 18 (1.01%) Banking
16 12 (0.67%) Automotive
17 11 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 593 (33.11%) Architect
2 346 (19.32%) Consultant
3 309 (17.25%) Solutions Architect
4 256 (14.29%) Senior
5 209 (11.67%) Project Manager
6 160 (8.93%) Presales Manager
7 158 (8.82%) Presales Solution Architect
8 100 (5.58%) Cloud Architect
9 84 (4.69%) Lead
10 77 (4.30%) Senior Architect
11 76 (4.24%) Technical Consultant
12 75 (4.19%) Senior Consultant
13 53 (2.96%) Presales Consultant
14 52 (2.90%) Data Consultant
14 52 (2.90%) Security Architect
15 47 (2.62%) Senior Technology Consultant
15 47 (2.62%) Technology Consultant
16 46 (2.57%) ServiceNow Architect
17 44 (2.46%) Developer
18 42 (2.35%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.30%) .NET
2 55 (3.07%) .NET Core
3 53 (2.96%) RESTful
4 46 (2.57%) React
5 39 (2.18%) ASP.NET
5 39 (2.18%) HTML
6 37 (2.07%) Next.js
7 36 (2.01%) .NET Framework
7 36 (2.01%) ASP.NET MVC
8 34 (1.90%) SOAP
9 25 (1.40%) Web Services
10 22 (1.23%) REST
11 20 (1.12%) CSS
12 15 (0.84%) XML
13 14 (0.78%) JSON
14 10 (0.56%) AngularJS
15 8 (0.45%) LDAP
16 7 (0.39%) Node.js
17 5 (0.28%) Ajax
17 5 (0.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 223 (12.45%) Data Centre
2 183 (10.22%) Self-Motivation
3 167 (9.32%) Public Cloud
4 96 (5.36%) Video Conferencing
5 91 (5.08%) Digital Signage
6 89 (4.97%) Video\Live Streaming
7 84 (4.69%) PKI
8 49 (2.74%) Cloud Native
9 43 (2.40%) Driving Licence
10 42 (2.35%) Virtual Team
11 39 (2.18%) Private Cloud
12 35 (1.95%) Onboarding
13 34 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 34 (1.90%) IoT
14 31 (1.73%) Management Information System
15 21 (1.17%) Replication
16 18 (1.01%) FMCG
17 17 (0.95%) Client/Server
18 15 (0.84%) PlayStation
19 13 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 166 (9.27%) Windows
2 84 (4.69%) Linux
3 58 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 42 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 20 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (0.61%) SUSE
6 11 (0.61%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.50%) Unix
7 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.34%) Android
8 6 (0.34%) Mesosphere
9 5 (0.28%) VMS
10 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.056%) CentOS
12 1 (0.056%) Debian
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (22.95%) Actionable Insight
2 403 (22.50%) Project Management
3 367 (20.49%) Agile
4 347 (19.37%) Project Delivery
5 252 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
6 233 (13.01%) Cybersecurity
7 222 (12.40%) Software Delivery
8 188 (10.50%) SDLC
9 179 (9.99%) Customer Service
9 179 (9.99%) DevOps
10 176 (9.83%) Agile Project Management
11 167 (9.32%) Migration
12 166 (9.27%) Analytics
13 161 (8.99%) Thought Leadership
14 155 (8.65%) TOGAF
15 142 (7.93%) Customer Requirements
16 136 (7.59%) Software Licensing
17 135 (7.54%) CRM
18 129 (7.20%) Roadmaps
19 124 (6.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 96 (5.36%) JavaScript
2 89 (4.97%) C#
3 67 (3.74%) SQL
4 49 (2.74%) PowerShell
5 42 (2.35%) Python
6 21 (1.17%) Bicep
6 21 (1.17%) Java
7 14 (0.78%) Bash
8 8 (0.45%) C
9 6 (0.34%) Perl
9 6 (0.34%) R
10 4 (0.22%) C++
10 4 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.11%) ABAP
12 2 (0.11%) PHP
12 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.056%) VB
Qualifications
1 315 (17.59%) Degree
2 290 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 223 (12.45%) SC Cleared
4 88 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 81 (4.52%) Azure Certification
6 71 (3.96%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.35%) CCNP
9 55 (3.07%) CCNA
10 44 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (2.29%) DV Cleared
12 37 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
13 26 (1.45%) MCP
14 25 (1.40%) MCSE
15 21 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (1.12%) CREST Certified
17 13 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 12 (0.67%) PMI Certification
18 12 (0.67%) PMP
19 11 (0.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (6.59%) SLA
2 43 (2.40%) QA
3 33 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.79%) COBIT
5 23 (1.28%) GDPR
6 18 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.78%) NIST
8 14 (0.78%) PMO
9 12 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.56%) GRC
10 10 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.28%) GAMP
11 5 (0.28%) GMP
12 4 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.22%) NCSC
13 1 (0.056%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.056%) IFRS
13 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 129 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 63 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (3.46%) Hyper-V
4 15 (0.84%) Docker
5 12 (0.67%) vCloud
5 12 (0.67%) vSphere
6 10 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.056%) NFS
9 1 (0.056%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 51 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (1.79%) OpenView
3 24 (1.34%) Stealthwatch
4 16 (0.89%) CASB
4 16 (0.89%) Kubernetes
5 15 (0.84%) Ansible
6 11 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.50%) Terraform
8 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.34%) Puppet
8 6 (0.34%) SmoothWall
9 5 (0.28%) HP UCMDB
10 4 (0.22%) Grafana
10 4 (0.22%) SCCM
11 3 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.11%) Aspera SmartTrack
12 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 628 (35.06%) Microsoft
2 140 (7.82%) Adobe
3 139 (7.76%) Apple
4 130 (7.26%) Cisco
5 92 (5.14%) VMware
6 91 (5.08%) Meraki
7 89 (4.97%) Google
8 88 (4.91%) HP
9 64 (3.57%) Dell
10 62 (3.46%) ServiceNow
11 60 (3.35%) Oracle
12 51 (2.85%) Aruba
13 45 (2.51%) BMC
14 43 (2.40%) Remedy
15 42 (2.35%) Fortinet
15 42 (2.35%) SAP
16 36 (2.01%) Optimizely
16 36 (2.01%) Sitecore
17 34 (1.90%) Salesforce
18 32 (1.79%) Samsung