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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 78 79
Rank change year-on-year -43 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 169 314 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.59% 3.50% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 3.96% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 115 146 154
10th Percentile £27,250 £40,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £50,967 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £62,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +22.55% -15.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £85,000 £63,436
90th Percentile £60,000 £95,375 £81,750
England median annual salary £48,998 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.34% +14.29% -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 8,466 7,934 8,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.70% 88.50% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,099 3,728 6,353
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,000
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 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -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 22 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 22 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 -55 67 £36,500 -47.86% 66
Hampshire +11 41 £30,000 -45.45% 25
Berkshire -43 32 £32,500 -53.57% 42
Buckinghamshire -16 26 £50,000 -19.49% 11
Surrey 0 19 £27,040 -66.20% 20
East Sussex +11 15 £60,000 -33.33% 14
Oxfordshire +5 9 £35,000 -41.67% 14
West Sussex -3 9 £32,000 -55.86% 12
Kent -22 9 £28,000 -49.09% 12
Middlesex -2 3 - - 1
Sussex -9 3 £38,000 +38.18% 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 9 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.14%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.37%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (2.37%) AutoCAD
4 4 (2.37%) SketchUp
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.18%) Windchill
6 1 (0.59%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.79%) Azure
2 22 (13.02%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (5.33%) AWS
4 8 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.14%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.14%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.55%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.96%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.78%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.78%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.78%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.18%) GCP
9 2 (1.18%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.88%) DNS
2 13 (7.69%) DHCP
3 12 (7.10%) Wireless
4 10 (5.92%) Firewall
5 9 (5.33%) VPN
6 8 (4.73%) VLAN
6 8 (4.73%) VoIP
7 7 (4.14%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.96%) Internet
8 5 (2.96%) NAS
8 5 (2.96%) SAN
9 3 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.59%) 5G
10 1 (0.59%) BGP
10 1 (0.59%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.37%) Power BI
2 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.18%) Tableau
4 1 (0.59%) Big Data
4 1 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.14%) GitLab
2 6 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.37%) JIRA
4 2 (1.18%) Git
4 2 (1.18%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.18%) Selenium
4 2 (1.18%) TestRail
5 1 (0.59%) JUnit
General
1 82 (48.52%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.53%) Marketing
3 29 (17.16%) Finance
4 15 (8.88%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (8.28%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (7.10%) Billing
7 11 (6.51%) Aerospace
8 9 (5.33%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.14%) Electronics
10 6 (3.55%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.37%) German Language
12 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.18%) Publishing
14 1 (0.59%) Automotive
14 1 (0.59%) Avionics
14 1 (0.59%) Banking
14 1 (0.59%) Retail
14 1 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (9.47%) IT Support
2 15 (8.88%) Consultant
3 13 (7.69%) Developer
4 10 (5.92%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (5.33%) Applications Developer
5 9 (5.33%) Support Engineer
6 8 (4.73%) Analyst
6 8 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (4.73%) Junior
6 8 (4.73%) Lead
7 7 (4.14%) Managing Consultant
7 7 (4.14%) Marketing Executive
7 7 (4.14%) Recruitment Consultant
7 7 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (3.55%) Account Manager
8 6 (3.55%) Administrator
8 6 (3.55%) Graduate
8 6 (3.55%) Support Specialist
8 6 (3.55%) Systems Support
8 6 (3.55%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.92%) .NET
2 9 (5.33%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.78%) Middleware
3 3 (1.78%) React
4 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.18%) Django
4 2 (1.18%) Kafka
4 2 (1.18%) Next.js
4 2 (1.18%) Web Services
5 1 (0.59%) CSS
5 1 (0.59%) HTML
5 1 (0.59%) Mustache
5 1 (0.59%) Node.js
5 1 (0.59%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.59%) REST
5 1 (0.59%) Spring
5 1 (0.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.79%) Onboarding
2 17 (10.06%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 8 (4.73%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.14%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.37%) Blog
6 4 (2.37%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.37%) Photography
6 4 (2.37%) Smart Home
6 4 (2.37%) Social Media
7 3 (1.78%) Cybercrime
7 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.78%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.78%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.69%) Windows
2 9 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.73%) Linux
4 5 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.78%) AIX
5 3 (1.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.08%) Agile
2 36 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (12.43%) Collaborative Culture
5 18 (10.65%) CRM
5 18 (10.65%) Validation
6 17 (10.06%) Analytics
7 16 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (9.47%) DevOps
8 15 (8.88%) Asset Management
9 14 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (8.28%) Process Improvement
9 14 (8.28%) Red Team
10 13 (7.69%) Service Delivery
11 11 (6.51%) AI
11 11 (6.51%) ITSM
11 11 (6.51%) Migration
11 11 (6.51%) Risk Management
11 11 (6.51%) SDLC
12 10 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.10%) C#
2 11 (6.51%) Python
3 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.14%) SQL
4 3 (1.78%) Bash
4 3 (1.78%) C++
4 3 (1.78%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.59%) Java
6 1 (0.59%) Perl
6 1 (0.59%) R
6 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (15.38%) Degree
2 19 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.55%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.78%) CISM
5 3 (1.78%) CISSP
6 2 (1.18%) CGEIT
6 2 (1.18%) CISA
6 2 (1.18%) CRISC
6 2 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CEH
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.96%) QA
4 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.78%) GDPR
5 3 (1.78%) SLA
6 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.18%) NIST
6 2 (1.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.59%) Section 508
7 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.14%) Hyper-V
2 7 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.96%) vSphere
5 3 (1.78%) Docker
6 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.59%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 9 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.96%) Ansible
2 5 (2.96%) Terraform
3 3 (1.78%) Grafana
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.78%) Netcool
4 2 (1.18%) Nessus
4 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.59%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.59%) Puppet
5 1 (0.59%) WMI
5 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (30.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.51%) VMware
3 7 (4.14%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.55%) Adobe
4 6 (3.55%) Zoho
5 5 (2.96%) Google
5 5 (2.96%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (2.96%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.96%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.37%) Sage
7 3 (1.78%) Cisco
7 3 (1.78%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.78%) IBM
7 3 (1.78%) Juniper
7 3 (1.78%) Oracle
7 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.78%) Snow
7 3 (1.78%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.18%) HP
8 2 (1.18%) Meraki