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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 75 66
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +46
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 340 315 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.93% 3.48% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.96% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 234 101 234
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,040 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% -18.26%
75th Percentile £60,750 £57,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.76% -11.80%

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 12,549 7,945 10,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.39% 87.69% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,016 4,294 6,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,913 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

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 August 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 August 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 +73 150 £47,500 +5.56% 96
Berkshire +54 81 £43,750 -2.78% 51
Surrey -30 71 £50,000 +84.91% 50
Hampshire -41 53 £56,465 +20.78% 65
Buckinghamshire +11 37 £50,000 +19.05% 26
Oxfordshire +6 32 £45,000 -41.94% 21
Kent -43 27 £42,500 +13.33% 15
East Sussex -6 12 £45,000 +1.53% 14
West Sussex -35 11 £59,500 +48.75% 16
Middlesex +25 10 £97,500 -
Isle of Wight - 2 - - 1
Sussex - 1 £59,500 - 1
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 8 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.59%) Gentran
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.59%) SAS
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) IIS
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (8.53%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.59%) CapCut
5 1 (0.29%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Navisworks
5 1 (0.29%) Revit
5 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.35%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.88%) Shopify
4 2 (0.59%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.59%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.59%) Siebel CRM
4 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.59%) AWS
1 36 (10.59%) SaaS
2 34 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (9.71%) Azure
4 21 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 17 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.47%) GCP
6 5 (1.47%) Google Analytics
7 4 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.88%) GitHub
8 3 (0.88%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.59%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.59%) BrowserStack
9 2 (0.59%) Figma
9 2 (0.59%) OCI
10 1 (0.29%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.82%) Firewall
2 9 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.06%) DNS
3 7 (2.06%) VPN
4 6 (1.76%) Internet
4 6 (1.76%) Network Security
4 6 (1.76%) VLAN
4 6 (1.76%) WAN
5 5 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.18%) DHCP
6 4 (1.18%) LAN
7 3 (0.88%) Wireless
8 2 (0.59%) ATM
8 2 (0.59%) SAN
9 1 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.29%) HTTP
9 1 (0.29%) LTE
9 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.29%) VoIP
9 1 (0.29%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.18%) Power BI
2 20 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.71%) Redis
4 6 (1.76%) GIS
5 5 (1.47%) Metadata
6 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.59%) Looker
7 2 (0.59%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.59%) Siebel EIM
7 2 (0.59%) Spatial Data
7 2 (0.59%) Tableau
8 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.29%) MySQL
8 1 (0.29%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (4.41%) JIRA
2 12 (3.53%) Git
3 7 (2.06%) GitLab
4 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.59%) MSTest
5 2 (0.59%) Selenium
5 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 196 (57.65%) Social Skills
2 78 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (22.65%) Finance
4 45 (13.24%) Organisational Skills
5 37 (10.88%) Aerospace
6 27 (7.94%) Marketing
7 26 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (5.00%) Legal
11 14 (4.12%) Local Government
11 14 (4.12%) Retail
12 11 (3.24%) Electronics
13 9 (2.65%) Manufacturing
13 9 (2.65%) Telecoms
14 8 (2.35%) Public Sector
15 7 (2.06%) Advertising
16 6 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (1.18%) Aviation
17 4 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 44 (12.94%) Analyst
2 35 (10.29%) Developer
2 35 (10.29%) Lead
3 32 (9.41%) Senior
4 23 (6.76%) Support Analyst
5 22 (6.47%) Consultant
6 20 (5.88%) IT Support
7 19 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (5.29%) Systems Engineer
9 17 (5.00%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.71%) Lead Developer
10 16 (4.71%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (4.71%) Lead Software Developer
11 14 (4.12%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.82%) Coordinator
13 11 (3.24%) Management Consultant
13 11 (3.24%) Programme Management Office Consultant
13 11 (3.24%) Programme Office Consultant
14 10 (2.94%) Auditor
15 9 (2.65%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.59%) Node.js
1 19 (5.59%) Vue
2 11 (3.24%) .NET
3 7 (2.06%) Terraform
4 6 (1.76%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.47%) HTML
5 5 (1.47%) YAML
6 4 (1.18%) ADO
6 4 (1.18%) JSON
6 4 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.18%) Playwright
6 4 (1.18%) React
7 3 (0.88%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.88%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.88%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.88%) Jinja
7 3 (0.88%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.88%) RESTful
8 2 (0.59%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.59%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 12 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.65%) Blog
7 8 (2.35%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.47%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.47%) Social Media
10 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.88%) CCTV
11 3 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.24%) Linux
2 26 (7.65%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) CentOS
5 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (39.12%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (36.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 66 (19.41%) Agile
4 58 (17.06%) Customer Service
4 58 (17.06%) Decision-Making
5 57 (16.76%) CRM
6 51 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (12.35%) AI
7 42 (12.35%) Project Management
8 34 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 33 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (9.12%) Customer Experience
11 29 (8.53%) Business Development
11 29 (8.53%) Service Delivery
11 29 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (8.24%) Systems Engineering
13 27 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (7.94%) Mentoring
14 25 (7.35%) Computer Science
14 25 (7.35%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.06%) SQL
2 23 (6.76%) Python
3 21 (6.18%) JavaScript
3 21 (6.18%) TypeScript
4 17 (5.00%) C#
5 13 (3.82%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.76%) ABAP
7 5 (1.47%) C
8 4 (1.18%) C++
8 4 (1.18%) Embedded C
8 4 (1.18%) Embedded C++
8 4 (1.18%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.88%) Bash
9 3 (0.88%) Perl
10 2 (0.59%) PHP
10 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.59%) R
11 1 (0.29%) Ada
11 1 (0.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 75 (22.06%) Degree
2 42 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.06%) ACCA
7 7 (2.06%) CCNP
7 7 (2.06%) CIMA
7 7 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.06%) CISM
7 7 (2.06%) CISSP
7 7 (2.06%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.47%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.18%) CCNA
9 4 (1.18%) CEH
9 4 (1.18%) GIAC
9 4 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.24%) QA
2 21 (6.18%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.29%) PMO
4 13 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.94%) GDPR
6 10 (2.94%) Good Clinical Practice
7 7 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.06%) NIST
7 7 (2.06%) SLA
8 5 (1.47%) WCAG
9 4 (1.18%) Def Stans
9 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.59%) CDISC
10 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.29%) ECSS
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.47%) ClearTrust
2 5 (1.47%) Docker
3 4 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.59%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.35%) Ansible
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.59%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) Nessus
5 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (25.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.24%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.94%) Cisco
3 10 (2.94%) SAP
4 9 (2.65%) Sage
5 7 (2.06%) Aruba
5 7 (2.06%) HubSpot
5 7 (2.06%) Oracle
6 6 (1.76%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.76%) Instagram
7 5 (1.47%) Google
7 5 (1.47%) VMware
8 4 (1.18%) Ahrefs
8 4 (1.18%) Databricks
8 4 (1.18%) EMC
8 4 (1.18%) Facebook
8 4 (1.18%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.18%) Qualys
8 4 (1.18%) Screaming Frog
8 4 (1.18%) Splunk