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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 83 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 -15 +13
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 202 239 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.64% 3.39% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.77% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 147 118 290
10th Percentile £27,800 £42,050 £26,700
25th Percentile £33,250 £50,967 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +33.33% -17.15%
75th Percentile £60,000 £85,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,250 £97,525 £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 9,340 6,338 12,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 75.62% 90.03% 85.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,911 3,261 9,125
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 19 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 19 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 -32 73 £50,000 -25.93% 35
Hampshire -7 39 £37,500 -31.82% 20
Berkshire -26 32 £33,500 -50.37% 21
Surrey -16 30 £40,000 -31.33% 10
Buckinghamshire -31 27 £59,000 -19.44% 10
East Sussex +9 26 £60,000 -33.33% 3
Oxfordshire +2 14 £35,000 -46.15% 4
West Sussex -12 10 £32,000 -55.86% 4
Kent -23 10 £50,000 +21.21% 5
Sussex -12 4 £38,000 +38.18% 2
Isle of Wight - 4 - -
Middlesex +9 2 - - 4
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 (9.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.45%) 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 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.48%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.49%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (1.49%) 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 (2.97%) 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 (17.33%) Azure
2 32 (15.84%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.92%) Entra ID
3 16 (7.92%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.46%) AWS
4 9 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (4.46%) SaaS
5 7 (3.47%) OneDrive
6 6 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.98%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.49%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.49%) Figma
9 3 (1.49%) GCP
9 3 (1.49%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.92%) DNS
2 14 (6.93%) DHCP
3 13 (6.44%) VPN
4 12 (5.94%) Firewall
5 10 (4.95%) Wireless
6 9 (4.46%) VLAN
7 7 (3.47%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.47%) VoIP
8 5 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.98%) BGP
9 4 (1.98%) IPsec
10 2 (0.99%) NAS
10 2 (0.99%) SAN
11 1 (0.50%) 5G
11 1 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.44%) Power BI
2 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.96%) MySQL
4 8 (3.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.99%) 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 (3.47%) GitLab
2 6 (2.97%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.97%) JIRA
3 2 (0.99%) Robot Framework
3 2 (0.99%) Selenium
3 2 (0.99%) TestRail
4 1 (0.50%) Git
4 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 97 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.82%) Finance
3 34 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (14.85%) Marketing
5 22 (10.89%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.44%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.94%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.95%) Billing
9 9 (4.46%) Aerospace
10 8 (3.96%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.97%) Electronics
12 6 (2.97%) Retail
13 5 (2.48%) Legal
14 4 (1.98%) German Language
14 4 (1.98%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.99%) Aeronautics
15 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (11.39%) Developer
2 19 (9.41%) IT Support
3 18 (8.91%) Analyst
4 16 (7.92%) Applications Developer
5 14 (6.93%) Account Manager
6 12 (5.94%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (5.45%) Consultant
7 11 (5.45%) Procurement Specialist
7 11 (5.45%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.46%) Architect
10 8 (3.96%) 2nd Line Support
10 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 8 (3.96%) Client Account Manager
10 8 (3.96%) SQL Analyst
10 8 (3.96%) SQL Data Analyst
10 8 (3.96%) SSRS Analyst
11 7 (3.47%) Marketing Executive
12 6 (2.97%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.90%) .NET
2 19 (9.41%) .NET Core
3 9 (4.46%) JSON
3 9 (4.46%) XML
4 3 (1.49%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.49%) Blazor
4 3 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.49%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.49%) REST
4 3 (1.49%) Vue
5 2 (0.99%) Django
5 2 (0.99%) Kafka
5 2 (0.99%) React
6 1 (0.50%) CSS
6 1 (0.50%) HTML
6 1 (0.50%) Mustache
6 1 (0.50%) SOAP
6 1 (0.50%) Spring
6 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.38%) Onboarding
2 16 (7.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 13 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.45%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.96%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.97%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.98%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.98%) NHS
7 4 (1.98%) Replication
7 4 (1.98%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.49%) Blog
8 3 (1.49%) Cybercrime
8 3 (1.49%) Photography
8 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.49%) Robotics
8 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.49%) Social Media
9 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.90%) Windows
2 14 (6.93%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.46%) Linux
4 5 (2.48%) 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 50 (24.75%) Agile
2 47 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (15.35%) Validation
5 26 (12.87%) Collaborative Culture
6 24 (11.88%) Service Delivery
7 21 (10.40%) Risk Management
8 20 (9.90%) DevOps
8 20 (9.90%) Process Improvement
8 20 (9.90%) SDLC
9 18 (8.91%) AI
9 18 (8.91%) Asset Management
10 17 (8.42%) Clean Code
10 17 (8.42%) CRM
10 17 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (7.92%) Decision-Making
11 16 (7.92%) OO
11 16 (7.92%) OOP
11 16 (7.92%) SOLID
12 15 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.38%) C#
2 23 (11.39%) Python
3 16 (7.92%) SQL
4 12 (5.94%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.96%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.49%) Bash
6 3 (1.49%) Java
6 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.99%) C++
7 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.50%) ABAP
8 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (13.86%) Degree
2 22 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.96%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.96%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) CGEIT
5 2 (0.99%) CISA
5 2 (0.99%) CISM
5 2 (0.99%) CISSP
5 2 (0.99%) CRISC
5 2 (0.99%) HNC
5 2 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (0.99%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.99%) 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 (10.40%) Data Quality
2 20 (9.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 7 (3.47%) QA
5 6 (2.97%) GDPR
6 4 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.98%) PMO
7 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.99%) NIST
9 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
System Software
1 24 (11.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.47%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) vSphere
5 1 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.50%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 9 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.48%) Ansible
2 5 (2.48%) Terraform
3 4 (1.98%) Backup Exec
3 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.49%) Grafana
5 2 (0.99%) Nessus
5 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.50%) Puppet
6 1 (0.50%) WMI
6 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.46%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.47%) VMware
4 6 (2.97%) Cisco
5 5 (2.48%) Adobe
5 5 (2.48%) Google
5 5 (2.48%) Meraki
5 5 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.98%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.98%) Veeam
6 4 (1.98%) Zoho
7 3 (1.49%) Apple
7 3 (1.49%) Juniper
7 3 (1.49%) Sage
8 2 (0.99%) Cvent
8 2 (0.99%) HP
8 2 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.99%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.99%) SAP
9 1 (0.50%) Ubiquiti