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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 51 75
Rank change year-on-year -59 +24 +8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 226 342 554
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.56% 4.45% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 4.91% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 156 98 355
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,875 £27,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £60,000 £74,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £74,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%

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 10,411 6,961 13,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.93% 90.59% 83.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,083 3,225 9,783
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,328 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -8 83 £55,000 -0.51% 47
Surrey -49 48 £42,500 -22.37% 17
Hampshire -43 39 £46,000 -16.36% 19
Buckinghamshire -19 34 £59,000 +15.76% 11
Berkshire -4 32 £50,000 -9.09% 27
East Sussex -2 25 £60,000 +35.37% 3
Oxfordshire +12 17 £56,250 -27.42% 10
West Sussex -26 10 £57,983 - 7
Kent -70 8 £50,000 +33.33% 10
Sussex - 5 £38,000 - 4
Isle of Wight - 4 - -
Middlesex +31 2 £97,500 - 11
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 15 (6.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) Gentran
4 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.88%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (17.70%) Azure
2 30 (13.27%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (9.73%) AWS
4 17 (7.52%) SaaS
5 15 (6.64%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.31%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.65%) GCP
8 5 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.21%) Figma
8 5 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.77%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.77%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.77%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.77%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.33%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.88%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.31%) DNS
2 11 (4.87%) Firewall
3 8 (3.54%) DHCP
3 8 (3.54%) VLAN
4 7 (3.10%) VPN
5 6 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.21%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.21%) Wireless
7 4 (1.77%) BGP
7 4 (1.77%) IPsec
8 3 (1.33%) VoIP
9 1 (0.44%) Broadband
9 1 (0.44%) NAS
9 1 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.64%) Power BI
3 11 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.54%) MySQL
4 8 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.77%) Metadata
5 4 (1.77%) Redis
5 4 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.33%) GIS
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.44%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.87%) GitLab
2 9 (3.98%) JIRA
3 6 (2.65%) Git
4 5 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.88%) MSTest
5 2 (0.88%) Selenium
5 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.44%) JUnit
General
1 102 (45.13%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (19.91%) Finance
4 26 (11.50%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (10.18%) Marketing
6 18 (7.96%) Aerospace
7 15 (6.64%) Telecoms
8 12 (5.31%) Retail
9 10 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.98%) Legal
11 7 (3.10%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.21%) Billing
13 5 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.77%) Automotive
14 4 (1.77%) Electronics
15 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.33%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.88%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 32 (14.16%) Developer
2 24 (10.62%) Analyst
3 20 (8.85%) Systems Engineer
4 16 (7.08%) Applications Developer
4 16 (7.08%) Senior
5 15 (6.64%) IT Support
5 15 (6.64%) Procurement Specialist
6 10 (4.42%) Account Manager
6 10 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (4.42%) Lead
7 9 (3.98%) Architect
7 9 (3.98%) Data Analyst
8 8 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 8 (3.54%) Client Account Manager
8 8 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.54%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (3.54%) SQL Data Analyst
8 8 (3.54%) SSRS Analyst
9 7 (3.10%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.06%) .NET
2 20 (8.85%) .NET Core
3 9 (3.98%) JSON
3 9 (3.98%) XML
4 8 (3.54%) Node.js
4 8 (3.54%) Vue
5 5 (2.21%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.21%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.21%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.77%) Blazor
6 4 (1.77%) Playwright
7 3 (1.33%) HTML
7 3 (1.33%) React
7 3 (1.33%) REST
8 2 (0.88%) ADO
8 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.88%) EDI
8 2 (0.88%) NestJS
8 2 (0.88%) Sass
8 2 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.85%) Onboarding
2 16 (7.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 9 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.54%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.21%) Cyber Security Posture
6 5 (2.21%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.77%) Blog
7 4 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.77%) NHS
7 4 (1.77%) Replication
7 4 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.33%) CCTV
8 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.33%) Robotics
8 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.52%) Windows
2 14 (6.19%) Linux
3 12 (5.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) CentOS
4 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.20%) Agile
2 65 (28.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (13.27%) Validation
5 28 (12.39%) DevOps
6 26 (11.50%) AI
6 26 (11.50%) Systems Engineering
7 25 (11.06%) Service Delivery
8 23 (10.18%) Decision-Making
9 22 (9.73%) Risk Management
10 21 (9.29%) CI/CD
10 21 (9.29%) Clean Code
10 21 (9.29%) SOLID
11 20 (8.85%) CRM
11 20 (8.85%) SDLC
12 19 (8.41%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (7.52%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.04%) C#
2 24 (10.62%) Python
3 19 (8.41%) SQL
4 12 (5.31%) PowerShell
5 9 (3.98%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.54%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.54%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.77%) C++
8 3 (1.33%) C
8 3 (1.33%) Embedded C
8 3 (1.33%) Embedded C++
8 3 (1.33%) Java
8 3 (1.33%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.88%) Bash
9 2 (0.88%) Perl
9 2 (0.88%) PHP
10 1 (0.44%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 35 (15.49%) Degree
2 31 (13.72%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.33%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.33%) PMP
8 2 (0.88%) CISM
8 2 (0.88%) CISSP
8 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.88%) HNC
9 1 (0.44%) CEH
9 1 (0.44%) CGEIT
9 1 (0.44%) CISA
9 1 (0.44%) CRISC
9 1 (0.44%) GIAC
9 1 (0.44%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.75%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 9 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (3.98%) QA
6 8 (3.54%) PMO
7 5 (2.21%) GDPR
8 4 (1.77%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.77%) WCAG
9 3 (1.33%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (7.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.33%) Docker
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.88%) vSphere
5 1 (0.44%) ClearTrust
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.10%) Ansible
2 7 (3.10%) Terraform
3 4 (1.77%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.44%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
5 1 (0.44%) Nessus
5 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.98%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.21%) Google
3 5 (2.21%) MuleSoft
4 4 (1.77%) Ahrefs
4 4 (1.77%) Cisco
4 4 (1.77%) HubSpot
4 4 (1.77%) Meraki
4 4 (1.77%) Screaming Frog
4 4 (1.77%) Veeam
4 4 (1.77%) VMware
5 3 (1.33%) Apple
5 3 (1.33%) Databricks
5 3 (1.33%) EMC
5 3 (1.33%) Facebook
5 3 (1.33%) Instagram
5 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.88%) Adobe
6 2 (0.88%) HP
6 2 (0.88%) IBM