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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 48 76
Rank change year-on-year -66 +28 +2
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 217 369 550
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.50% 4.80% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 5.31% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 151 121 343
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,875 £46,250 £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 £76,009 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.00%

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 10,499 6,944 13,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.51% 90.42% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,941 3,404 9,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,280 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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 9 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 9 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 -20 80 £55,000 -12.00% 39
Surrey -51 45 £42,500 -22.02% 15
Hampshire -33 38 £46,000 -16.36% 17
Buckinghamshire -23 33 £59,000 -19.44% 8
Berkshire -20 30 £47,500 -20.83% 20
East Sussex -2 26 £60,000 -32.39% 2
Oxfordshire +7 17 £56,250 -19.64% 11
West Sussex -26 8 £49,733 -31.40% 7
Kent -71 7 £50,000 +21.21% 6
Sussex - 5 £38,000 - 3
Isle of Wight - 4 - -
Middlesex +27 2 £97,500 - 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 15 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) Gentran
4 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.92%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.46%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.46%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.13%) Azure
2 28 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (8.76%) AWS
4 17 (7.83%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.99%) SaaS
6 12 (5.53%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.30%) GCP
9 5 (2.30%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.84%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.84%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.84%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (1.38%) Figma
11 3 (1.38%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.38%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.92%) BrowserStack
12 2 (0.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.99%) DNS
2 12 (5.53%) Firewall
3 9 (4.15%) DHCP
4 8 (3.69%) VLAN
4 8 (3.69%) VPN
5 7 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.30%) Wireless
8 4 (1.84%) BGP
8 4 (1.84%) IPsec
9 3 (1.38%) VoIP
10 1 (0.46%) 5G
10 1 (0.46%) Broadband
10 1 (0.46%) NAS
10 1 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 16 (7.37%) Power BI
3 11 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.69%) MySQL
4 8 (3.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.84%) Metadata
5 4 (1.84%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.38%) Redis
7 2 (0.92%) GIS
8 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.46%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.53%) GitLab
2 9 (4.15%) JIRA
3 6 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.84%) Git
5 3 (1.38%) Selenium
6 2 (0.92%) MSTest
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
7 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 95 (43.78%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.20%) Finance
3 44 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.44%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (10.60%) Marketing
6 19 (8.76%) Aerospace
7 15 (6.91%) Telecoms
8 12 (5.53%) Retail
9 10 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.23%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.30%) Billing
12 5 (2.30%) Legal
13 4 (1.84%) Automotive
14 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.38%) Electronics
14 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.38%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.92%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 29 (13.36%) Developer
2 22 (10.14%) Analyst
3 19 (8.76%) Systems Engineer
4 17 (7.83%) Applications Developer
5 15 (6.91%) Procurement Specialist
6 14 (6.45%) IT Support
6 14 (6.45%) Senior
7 10 (4.61%) Account Manager
7 10 (4.61%) Architect
8 9 (4.15%) Data Analyst
8 9 (4.15%) Lead
9 8 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (3.69%) Client Account Manager
9 8 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (3.69%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (3.69%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (3.69%) SSRS Analyst
10 7 (3.23%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.52%) .NET
2 21 (9.68%) .NET Core
3 9 (4.15%) JSON
3 9 (4.15%) XML
4 7 (3.23%) Vue
5 5 (2.30%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.30%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.30%) Entity Framework
5 5 (2.30%) Node.js
6 4 (1.84%) Blazor
7 3 (1.38%) REST
8 2 (0.92%) ADO
8 2 (0.92%) EDI
8 2 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.92%) Playwright
8 2 (0.92%) React
9 1 (0.46%) CSS
9 1 (0.46%) SOAP
9 1 (0.46%) Spring
9 1 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.76%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 8 (3.69%) Data Structures
3 8 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.30%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.84%) Blog
5 4 (1.84%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.84%) NHS
5 4 (1.84%) Replication
5 4 (1.84%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.38%) CCTV
6 3 (1.38%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.38%) Robotics
7 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.37%) Windows
2 14 (6.45%) Linux
3 11 (5.07%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) CentOS
4 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.95%) Agile
2 60 (27.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (15.67%) Validation
5 25 (11.52%) DevOps
6 24 (11.06%) Service Delivery
7 23 (10.60%) Systems Engineering
8 21 (9.68%) AI
8 21 (9.68%) Clean Code
8 21 (9.68%) Decision-Making
8 21 (9.68%) Risk Management
8 21 (9.68%) SDLC
8 21 (9.68%) SOLID
9 19 (8.76%) Process Improvement
9 19 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (8.29%) CRM
10 18 (8.29%) OOP
11 17 (7.83%) Asset Management
11 17 (7.83%) OO
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.29%) C#
2 23 (10.60%) Python
3 18 (8.29%) SQL
4 11 (5.07%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.69%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.38%) Bash
8 3 (1.38%) C++
8 3 (1.38%) Java
9 2 (0.92%) C
9 2 (0.92%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.92%) Embedded C++
9 2 (0.92%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.92%) Perl
9 2 (0.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.46%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 29 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.44%) Degree
3 13 (5.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.53%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.38%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.38%) PMP
7 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.92%) HNC
8 1 (0.46%) CGEIT
8 1 (0.46%) CISA
8 1 (0.46%) CISSP
8 1 (0.46%) CRISC
8 1 (0.46%) HND
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.06%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 8 (3.69%) PMO
5 7 (3.23%) QA
6 6 (2.76%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.30%) GDPR
8 3 (1.38%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.92%) WCAG
10 1 (0.46%) NIST
10 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (8.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.76%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.84%) Docker
4 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.46%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 13 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.69%) Ansible
2 8 (3.69%) Terraform
3 4 (1.84%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.38%) Grafana
4 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.92%) Nessus
6 1 (0.46%) Kibana
6 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.46%) Puppet
6 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (31.80%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.15%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.30%) Google
3 5 (2.30%) MuleSoft
3 5 (2.30%) VMware
4 4 (1.84%) Ahrefs
4 4 (1.84%) Cisco
4 4 (1.84%) HubSpot
4 4 (1.84%) Meraki
4 4 (1.84%) Screaming Frog
4 4 (1.84%) Veeam
5 3 (1.38%) Apple
5 3 (1.38%) Databricks
5 3 (1.38%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.92%) Adobe
6 2 (0.92%) EMC
6 2 (0.92%) Facebook
6 2 (0.92%) HP
6 2 (0.92%) IBM
6 2 (0.92%) SAP