Collaborative Working Job Trends in the South East

Collaborative Working
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 70 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +30
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 439 298 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.33% 3.35% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.81% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 279 92 186
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,040 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £29,500 £38,785
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -6.59% -17.31%
75th Percentile £67,086 £57,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,750 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,719
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.06% -0.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Collaborative Working falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,519 7,819 10,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.84% 87.94% 81.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,618 4,221 5,640
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,298
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.66% -6.72%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the South East

Collaborative Working
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Collaborative Working.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the South East over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Working in the South East

Collaborative Working
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Thames Valley +85 183 £45,000 +2.86% 120
Surrey -16 111 £63,178 +133.65% 69
Berkshire +61 104 £42,500 -2.86% 63
Hampshire -23 71 £54,554 +14.85% 57
Buckinghamshire +20 42 £47,500 +13.10% 29
Oxfordshire +4 37 £50,000 -41.18% 28
Kent -38 37 £42,500 +13.33% 22
Middlesex +20 13 £97,500 - 5
West Sussex -36 11 £75,000 +87.50% 30
East Sussex -5 8 £40,675 -8.23% 12
Sussex - 1 £59,500 -
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.46%) Confluence
2 2 (0.46%) Gentran
2 2 (0.46%) IIS
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.46%) SAS
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 45 (10.25%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.46%) CapCut
6 1 (0.23%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.23%) Revit
6 1 (0.23%) Simulink
6 1 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.51%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.91%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.68%) Shopify
5 2 (0.46%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.46%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (9.11%) AWS
3 39 (8.88%) Azure
3 39 (8.88%) SaaS
4 25 (5.69%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.87%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.37%) GCP
7 5 (1.14%) GitHub
8 4 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.91%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.91%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.68%) Asana
9 3 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.68%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.68%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.46%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.46%) Figma
10 2 (0.46%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.87%) Firewall
2 12 (2.73%) DNS
3 11 (2.51%) VPN
3 11 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.59%) DHCP
4 7 (1.59%) WAN
5 6 (1.37%) Internet
5 6 (1.37%) LAN
5 6 (1.37%) Network Security
5 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.37%) VLAN
6 4 (0.91%) Wireless
7 2 (0.46%) ATM
7 2 (0.46%) HTTP
7 2 (0.46%) SAN
8 1 (0.23%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.23%) LTE
8 1 (0.23%) VoIP
8 1 (0.23%) VSAT
8 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.69%) Power BI
2 20 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.64%) Redis
4 6 (1.37%) GIS
5 5 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.91%) Metadata
7 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.46%) Looker
8 2 (0.46%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.46%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (0.46%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.46%) Tableau
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.23%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.23%) MySQL
9 1 (0.23%) Power Query
9 1 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (5.24%) JIRA
2 18 (4.10%) Git
3 7 (1.59%) GitLab
4 4 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.46%) MSTest
5 2 (0.46%) Selenium
5 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 251 (57.18%) Social Skills
2 91 (20.73%) Finance
3 87 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (15.49%) Organisational Skills
5 54 (12.30%) Aerospace
6 30 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (6.61%) Marketing
7 29 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (6.15%) Electronics
9 25 (5.69%) Manufacturing
10 23 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (4.33%) Legal
12 17 (3.87%) Local Government
12 17 (3.87%) Retail
13 13 (2.96%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.82%) Advertising
14 8 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.59%) Avionics
16 6 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (11.39%) Analyst
2 48 (10.93%) Lead
3 34 (7.74%) Developer
4 33 (7.52%) Senior
5 29 (6.61%) Support Analyst
6 25 (5.69%) Consultant
7 22 (5.01%) IT Support
8 18 (4.10%) Coordinator
8 18 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (3.87%) Software Developer
10 16 (3.64%) Architect
10 16 (3.64%) Lead Developer
10 16 (3.64%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (3.64%) Lead Software Developer
10 16 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 13 (2.96%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.73%) Support Technician
14 11 (2.51%) Administrator
14 11 (2.51%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.33%) Node.js
2 18 (4.10%) Vue
3 9 (2.05%) Terraform
4 6 (1.37%) .NET
4 6 (1.37%) HTML
5 5 (1.14%) Playwright
5 5 (1.14%) YAML
6 4 (0.91%) ADO
6 4 (0.91%) JSON
6 4 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (0.91%) PySpark
6 4 (0.91%) React
7 3 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.68%) CSS
7 3 (0.68%) Jinja
7 3 (0.68%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.68%) RESTful
8 2 (0.46%) Jest
8 2 (0.46%) NgRx
8 2 (0.46%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.88%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.69%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.82%) Blog
6 8 (1.82%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.37%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.37%) Social Media
8 5 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.14%) FPGA
8 5 (1.14%) SCADA
9 4 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.52%) Windows
2 32 (7.29%) Linux
3 9 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.91%) Android
5 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (38.27%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (35.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 75 (17.08%) Customer Service
4 72 (16.40%) CRM
4 72 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (15.95%) Agile
6 66 (15.03%) Decision-Making
7 51 (11.62%) AI
8 50 (11.39%) Project Management
9 45 (10.25%) Customer Experience
10 43 (9.79%) CI/CD
11 38 (8.66%) Service Delivery
12 36 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (7.97%) Cyber Intelligence
14 33 (7.52%) Business Development
14 33 (7.52%) Process Improvement
15 32 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (7.29%) Project Delivery
16 31 (7.06%) Mentoring
17 30 (6.83%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.83%) Python
1 30 (6.83%) SQL
2 23 (5.24%) JavaScript
3 22 (5.01%) TypeScript
4 16 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.73%) C#
6 6 (1.37%) ABAP
7 5 (1.14%) C
7 5 (1.14%) MATLAB
8 4 (0.91%) Bash
8 4 (0.91%) C++
8 4 (0.91%) Embedded C
8 4 (0.91%) Embedded C++
9 3 (0.68%) Perl
10 2 (0.46%) Java
10 2 (0.46%) PHP
10 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.46%) R
11 1 (0.23%) Ada
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 94 (21.41%) Degree
2 57 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 26 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.51%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.05%) ACCA
6 9 (2.05%) CIMA
6 9 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.82%) CISM
7 8 (1.82%) CISSP
7 8 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.59%) CCNP
8 7 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.59%) HNC
9 6 (1.37%) PMP
10 5 (1.14%) HND
10 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.29%) QA
2 22 (5.01%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.87%) PMO
4 15 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (2.51%) GDPR
7 10 (2.28%) Good Clinical Practice
8 9 (2.05%) NIST
9 8 (1.82%) Data Quality
10 7 (1.59%) SLA
11 5 (1.14%) WCAG
12 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.91%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.91%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.46%) CDISC
14 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
14 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 15 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.14%) ClearTrust
2 5 (1.14%) Docker
3 4 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.46%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.28%) Ansible
4 3 (0.68%) Grafana
4 3 (0.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) Nessus
6 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.87%) Salesforce
3 14 (3.19%) Sage
3 14 (3.19%) SAP
4 13 (2.96%) Oracle
5 11 (2.51%) Cisco
6 7 (1.59%) Aruba
6 7 (1.59%) Databricks
6 7 (1.59%) EMC
6 7 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.59%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.37%) Google
7 6 (1.37%) Instagram
8 5 (1.14%) Thales
8 5 (1.14%) VMware
9 4 (0.91%) Facebook
9 4 (0.91%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.91%) Qualys
9 4 (0.91%) Splunk
10 3 (0.68%) Juniper