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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 79 86
Rank change year-on-year -41 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 179 306 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.66% 3.48% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 3.91% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 124 140 184
10th Percentile £27,250 £40,000 £26,400
25th Percentile £28,500 £50,967 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +27.50% -13.79%
75th Percentile £52,500 £85,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £98,500 £78,375
England median annual salary £48,822 £60,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -18.63% +16.50% -16.40%

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 8,541 7,829 9,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.44% 89.07% 86.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,167 3,615 6,954
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,110 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.28% -8.00%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -61 65 £46,000 -34.29% 50
Hampshire +6 42 £29,000 -49.12% 25
Berkshire -51 30 £32,500 -57.38% 29
Buckinghamshire -24 26 £51,250 -17.48% 11
Surrey +7 24 £37,500 -53.13% 11
East Sussex +13 17 £60,000 -33.33% 6
West Sussex +2 10 £32,000 -55.86% 6
Kent -11 10 £28,000 -49.09% 4
Oxfordshire +9 9 £35,000 -41.67% 11
Sussex -10 4 £38,000 +38.18% 3
Middlesex -3 3 - -
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 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.91%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.23%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (2.23%) SketchUp
5 3 (1.68%) AutoCAD
5 3 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.56%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.56%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.20%) Azure
2 28 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.15%) Entra ID
4 10 (5.59%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.03%) AWS
6 8 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.91%) OneDrive
8 6 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.79%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.68%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.68%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.68%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.68%) SaaS
10 3 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.12%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.12%) GCP
11 2 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.50%) DNS
2 15 (8.38%) DHCP
3 13 (7.26%) Wireless
4 12 (6.70%) Firewall
5 11 (6.15%) VPN
6 10 (5.59%) VLAN
7 9 (5.03%) VoIP
8 8 (4.47%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.79%) Internet
9 5 (2.79%) NAS
9 5 (2.79%) SAN
10 4 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.12%) BGP
11 2 (1.12%) IPsec
12 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.91%) Power BI
2 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.68%) MySQL
3 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.12%) Tableau
5 1 (0.56%) Big Data
5 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.91%) GitLab
2 6 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.79%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) Git
4 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) TestRail
5 1 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 90 (50.28%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.11%) Marketing
3 34 (18.99%) Finance
4 20 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.50%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (7.26%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (6.15%) Billing
8 10 (5.59%) Aerospace
9 8 (4.47%) Manufacturing
9 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.91%) Electronics
11 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (2.23%) German Language
14 2 (1.12%) Aeronautics
14 2 (1.12%) Publishing
15 1 (0.56%) Automotive
15 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (10.61%) IT Support
2 14 (7.82%) Developer
3 13 (7.26%) Consultant
4 11 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (6.15%) Analyst
5 10 (5.59%) Account Manager
5 10 (5.59%) Applications Developer
5 10 (5.59%) Support Engineer
6 9 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (4.47%) Junior
7 8 (4.47%) Marketing Executive
8 7 (3.91%) Lead
8 7 (3.91%) Managing Consultant
8 7 (3.91%) Support Specialist
8 7 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (3.35%) Graduate
9 6 (3.35%) Support Technician
9 6 (3.35%) Systems Support
9 6 (3.35%) Technical Support
10 5 (2.79%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.15%) .NET
2 10 (5.59%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.68%) JSON
3 3 (1.68%) Middleware
3 3 (1.68%) React
3 3 (1.68%) XML
4 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.12%) Django
4 2 (1.12%) Kafka
4 2 (1.12%) Next.js
4 2 (1.12%) Web Services
5 1 (0.56%) CSS
5 1 (0.56%) HTML
5 1 (0.56%) Mustache
5 1 (0.56%) Node.js
5 1 (0.56%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.56%) REST
5 1 (0.56%) Spring
5 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.53%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.38%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 8 (4.47%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.23%) Blog
5 4 (2.23%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.23%) Photography
5 4 (2.23%) Smart Home
5 4 (2.23%) Social Media
5 4 (2.23%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.68%) Cybercrime
6 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.68%) Robotics
7 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.12%) Replication
7 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.38%) Windows
2 11 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.47%) Linux
4 5 (2.79%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.68%) AIX
5 3 (1.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (22.35%) Agile
2 37 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (12.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 21 (11.73%) Validation
5 19 (10.61%) CRM
6 18 (10.06%) Analytics
6 18 (10.06%) Process Improvement
7 17 (9.50%) Service Delivery
8 16 (8.94%) DevOps
9 15 (8.38%) Asset Management
9 15 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (7.26%) AI
10 13 (7.26%) SDLC
11 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (6.70%) Red Team
11 12 (6.70%) Risk Management
12 11 (6.15%) ITSM
12 11 (6.15%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.82%) Python
2 13 (7.26%) C#
3 10 (5.59%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.59%) SQL
4 3 (1.68%) Bash
4 3 (1.68%) C++
4 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.56%) Java
6 1 (0.56%) Perl
6 1 (0.56%) R
6 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (14.53%) Degree
2 19 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.35%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.68%) CISM
5 3 (1.68%) CISSP
6 2 (1.12%) CGEIT
6 2 (1.12%) CISA
6 2 (1.12%) CRISC
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CEH
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (3.35%) QA
5 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.23%) GDPR
6 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.68%) SLA
7 2 (1.12%) NIST
7 2 (1.12%) PMO
8 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.56%) Section 508
8 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (8.94%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.47%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.79%) vSphere
6 3 (1.68%) Docker
7 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.56%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 9 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.79%) Ansible
2 5 (2.79%) Terraform
3 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.68%) Grafana
4 3 (1.68%) Netcool
5 2 (1.12%) Backup Exec
5 2 (1.12%) Nessus
5 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) WMI
6 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (29.61%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) VMware
3 8 (4.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.35%) Adobe
4 6 (3.35%) Zoho
5 5 (2.79%) Google
5 5 (2.79%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (2.79%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.79%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.23%) Cisco
6 4 (2.23%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.23%) Sage
7 3 (1.68%) Apple
7 3 (1.68%) IBM
7 3 (1.68%) Juniper
7 3 (1.68%) Meraki
7 3 (1.68%) Oracle
7 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.68%) Snow
7 3 (1.68%) SolarWinds