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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 81 72
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 200 245 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.63% 3.45% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 3.83% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 144 117 287
10th Percentile £27,650 £41,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £50,967 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £59,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% +31.11% -17.15%
75th Percentile £60,000 £85,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,125 £98,950 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £59,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.25% +18.00% -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 9,334 6,396 12,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 75.92% 90.02% 85.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,901 3,315 9,094
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +12.86% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -37 72 £50,000 -24.53% 33
Hampshire -12 39 £37,500 -31.82% 19
Berkshire -33 32 £33,500 -48.46% 19
Surrey -13 30 £40,000 -31.33% 8
Buckinghamshire -27 27 £59,000 -19.44% 9
East Sussex +9 25 £60,000 -33.33% 3
Oxfordshire +3 13 £35,000 -42.86% 5
West Sussex -13 10 £32,000 -55.86% 4
Kent -21 9 £50,000 +21.21% 5
Sussex -13 4 £38,000 +38.18% 2
Isle of Wight - 4 - -
Middlesex +9 3 - - 2
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 19 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.50%) Photoshop
3 4 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.50%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (1.50%) SketchUp
5 1 (0.50%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.50%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (17.50%) Azure
2 31 (15.50%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 16 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.50%) AWS
4 9 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (4.50%) SaaS
5 7 (3.50%) OneDrive
6 6 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.00%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.50%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.50%) Figma
9 3 (1.50%) GCP
9 3 (1.50%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.50%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.00%) DNS
2 14 (7.00%) DHCP
3 13 (6.50%) VPN
4 12 (6.00%) Firewall
5 10 (5.00%) Wireless
6 9 (4.50%) VLAN
7 7 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.50%) VoIP
8 5 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.00%) BGP
9 4 (2.00%) IPsec
10 2 (1.00%) NAS
10 2 (1.00%) SAN
11 1 (0.50%) 5G
11 1 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.50%) Power BI
2 12 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.00%) MySQL
4 8 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.00%) Tableau
6 1 (0.50%) Big Data
6 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) GitLab
2 6 (3.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.00%) JIRA
3 2 (1.00%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.00%) Selenium
3 2 (1.00%) TestRail
4 1 (0.50%) Git
4 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 96 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.50%) Finance
3 33 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.00%) Marketing
5 22 (11.00%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.50%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.00%) Telecoms
8 10 (5.00%) Billing
9 9 (4.50%) Aerospace
10 8 (4.00%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (3.00%) Electronics
12 6 (3.00%) Retail
13 5 (2.50%) Legal
14 4 (2.00%) German Language
14 4 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 2 (1.00%) Aeronautics
15 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (1.00%) Publishing
16 1 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (11.00%) Developer
2 18 (9.00%) Analyst
2 18 (9.00%) IT Support
3 15 (7.50%) Applications Developer
4 14 (7.00%) Account Manager
5 12 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (5.50%) Consultant
6 11 (5.50%) Procurement Specialist
7 10 (5.00%) Data Analyst
7 10 (5.00%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.50%) Architect
9 8 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (4.00%) Client Account Manager
9 8 (4.00%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (4.00%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (4.00%) SSRS Analyst
10 7 (3.50%) Marketing Executive
11 6 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.50%) .NET
2 18 (9.00%) .NET Core
3 9 (4.50%) JSON
3 9 (4.50%) XML
4 3 (1.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.50%) Blazor
4 3 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.50%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.50%) REST
4 3 (1.50%) Vue
5 2 (1.00%) Django
5 2 (1.00%) Kafka
5 2 (1.00%) React
6 1 (0.50%) CSS
6 1 (0.50%) HTML
6 1 (0.50%) Node.js
6 1 (0.50%) SOAP
6 1 (0.50%) Spring
6 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 13 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.50%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.00%) NHS
7 4 (2.00%) Replication
7 4 (2.00%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.50%) Blog
8 3 (1.50%) Cybercrime
8 3 (1.50%) Photography
8 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.50%) Robotics
8 3 (1.50%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.50%) Social Media
9 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.50%) Windows
2 14 (7.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.50%) Linux
4 5 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.50%) Agile
2 46 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (15.50%) Validation
5 25 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
6 24 (12.00%) Service Delivery
7 21 (10.50%) Risk Management
8 20 (10.00%) DevOps
8 20 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 19 (9.50%) SDLC
10 18 (9.00%) AI
10 18 (9.00%) Asset Management
11 17 (8.50%) CRM
11 17 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (8.00%) Clean Code
13 15 (7.50%) Decision-Making
13 15 (7.50%) OO
13 15 (7.50%) OOP
13 15 (7.50%) SOLID
14 14 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (12.00%) C#
2 23 (11.50%) Python
3 16 (8.00%) SQL
4 12 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.50%) Bash
6 3 (1.50%) Java
6 3 (1.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.00%) C++
7 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.50%) ABAP
8 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (14.50%) Degree
2 22 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) CGEIT
5 2 (1.00%) CISA
5 2 (1.00%) CISM
5 2 (1.00%) CISSP
5 2 (1.00%) CRISC
5 2 (1.00%) HNC
5 2 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) HND
6 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.50%) Data Quality
2 20 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 7 (3.50%) QA
5 6 (3.00%) GDPR
6 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.00%) PMO
8 3 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.50%) SLA
9 2 (1.00%) NIST
10 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.50%) Section 508
10 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.50%) Docker
3 3 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.00%) vSphere
5 1 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.50%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 9 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.50%) Ansible
2 5 (2.50%) Terraform
3 4 (2.00%) Backup Exec
3 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.50%) Grafana
5 2 (1.00%) Nessus
5 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.50%) Puppet
6 1 (0.50%) WMI
6 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (31.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.50%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.50%) VMware
4 6 (3.00%) Cisco
5 5 (2.50%) Adobe
5 5 (2.50%) Google
5 5 (2.50%) Meraki
5 5 (2.50%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.00%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.00%) Veeam
6 4 (2.00%) Zoho
7 3 (1.50%) Apple
7 3 (1.50%) Juniper
7 3 (1.50%) Sage
8 2 (1.00%) Cvent
8 2 (1.00%) HP
8 2 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.00%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.00%) SAP
9 1 (0.50%) Ubiquiti