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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 79 74
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 195 278 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.69% 3.51% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 3.91% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 142 124 237
10th Percentile £27,500 £44,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £51,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £63,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £58,438 £86,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,000 £111,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,886
% change year-on-year -16.67% +17.91% -15.19%

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 9,005 7,109 10,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 77.82% 89.65% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,568 3,276 8,000
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -53 61 £50,000 -31.73% 23
Hampshire 0 47 £30,000 -47.37% 26
Surrey -7 32 £40,000 -50.00% 13
Berkshire -50 29 £32,500 -60.61% 11
Buckinghamshire -27 22 £55,000 -24.90% 9
East Sussex +14 21 £60,000 -33.33% 2
Kent -10 12 £39,000 -29.09% 6
Oxfordshire +8 10 £35,000 -42.86% 3
West Sussex -7 9 £32,000 -55.86% 5
Sussex -14 4 £38,000 +38.18% 1
Middlesex +5 3 - - 1
Isle of Wight - 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 (9.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.59%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.05%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.05%) SketchUp
5 1 (0.51%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.51%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.51%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (18.46%) Azure
2 34 (17.44%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (9.23%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.72%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.64%) AWS
6 9 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (4.10%) SaaS
8 7 (3.59%) OneDrive
9 6 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.56%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.54%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.54%) Figma
11 3 (1.54%) GCP
11 3 (1.54%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.03%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (1.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.21%) DNS
2 14 (7.18%) DHCP
3 13 (6.67%) VPN
4 12 (6.15%) Wireless
5 11 (5.64%) Firewall
6 9 (4.62%) VLAN
6 9 (4.62%) VoIP
7 7 (3.59%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.05%) BGP
8 4 (2.05%) IPsec
8 4 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.03%) NAS
9 2 (1.03%) SAN
10 1 (0.51%) 5G
10 1 (0.51%) Broadband
10 1 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.18%) Power BI
2 9 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.10%) MySQL
3 8 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.54%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.03%) Tableau
6 1 (0.51%) Big Data
6 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (3.59%) GitLab
1 7 (3.59%) JIRA
2 6 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.03%) Selenium
3 2 (1.03%) TestRail
4 1 (0.51%) JUnit
General
1 101 (51.79%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.97%) Finance
3 36 (18.46%) Marketing
4 33 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.77%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (6.15%) Billing
6 12 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.15%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.62%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.59%) Electronics
8 7 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.05%) German Language
10 4 (2.05%) Legal
11 2 (1.03%) Aeronautics
11 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Publishing
11 2 (1.03%) Retail
12 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (10.77%) IT Support
2 18 (9.23%) Analyst
3 16 (8.21%) Developer
4 14 (7.18%) Account Manager
5 12 (6.15%) Applications Developer
5 12 (6.15%) Consultant
6 11 (5.64%) 2nd Line Support
7 10 (5.13%) Data Analyst
7 10 (5.13%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.10%) Architect
8 8 (4.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (4.10%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 8 (4.10%) Client Account Manager
8 8 (4.10%) Marketing Executive
8 8 (4.10%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (4.10%) SQL Data Analyst
8 8 (4.10%) SSRS Analyst
9 7 (3.59%) Senior
10 6 (3.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.67%) .NET
2 12 (6.15%) .NET Core
3 9 (4.62%) JSON
3 9 (4.62%) XML
4 3 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.54%) Middleware
4 3 (1.54%) REST
5 2 (1.03%) Django
5 2 (1.03%) Kafka
5 2 (1.03%) React
5 2 (1.03%) Web Services
6 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.51%) CSS
6 1 (0.51%) HTML
6 1 (0.51%) Mustache
6 1 (0.51%) Next.js
6 1 (0.51%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.51%) SOAP
6 1 (0.51%) Spring
6 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.36%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 10 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.10%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.05%) Blog
6 4 (2.05%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.05%) Photography
6 4 (2.05%) Replication
6 4 (2.05%) Social Media
6 4 (2.05%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.54%) Cybercrime
7 3 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.54%) Robotics
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.03%) NHS
8 2 (1.03%) PKI
8 2 (1.03%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.23%) Windows
2 14 (7.18%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.10%) Linux
4 5 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.54%) AIX
5 3 (1.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 44 (22.56%) Agile
3 43 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (15.38%) Validation
5 24 (12.31%) Service Delivery
6 23 (11.79%) Collaborative Culture
6 23 (11.79%) Process Improvement
7 18 (9.23%) AI
7 18 (9.23%) Asset Management
7 18 (9.23%) CRM
7 18 (9.23%) DevOps
8 17 (8.72%) Risk Management
8 17 (8.72%) SDLC
9 16 (8.21%) Analytics
9 16 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.18%) Decision-Making
11 14 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (6.67%) Clean Code
12 13 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.28%) Python
2 19 (9.74%) SQL
3 18 (9.23%) C#
4 15 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.10%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.54%) Bash
7 3 (1.54%) C++
7 3 (1.54%) Java
8 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.51%) ABAP
9 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.51%) Perl
9 1 (0.51%) R
9 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (15.38%) Degree
2 23 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.03%) CGEIT
5 2 (1.03%) CISA
5 2 (1.03%) CISM
5 2 (1.03%) CISSP
5 2 (1.03%) CRISC
5 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.03%) HNC
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (1.03%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) HND
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.77%) Data Quality
2 20 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 7 (3.59%) QA
5 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.54%) GDPR
6 3 (1.54%) PMO
6 3 (1.54%) SLA
7 2 (1.03%) NIST
8 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.51%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.51%) Section 508
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (12.31%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.59%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.54%) Docker
3 3 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.03%) vSphere
5 1 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.51%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 9 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.56%) Ansible
2 5 (2.56%) Terraform
3 4 (2.05%) Backup Exec
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.54%) Grafana
4 3 (1.54%) Netcool
5 2 (1.03%) Nessus
5 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.51%) Puppet
6 1 (0.51%) WMI
6 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.59%) VMware
4 6 (3.08%) Adobe
4 6 (3.08%) Cisco
4 6 (3.08%) Google
4 6 (3.08%) Zoho
5 5 (2.56%) Meraki
5 5 (2.56%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.05%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.05%) Sage
6 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.05%) Veeam
7 3 (1.54%) Apple
7 3 (1.54%) IBM
7 3 (1.54%) Juniper
7 3 (1.54%) Oracle
7 3 (1.54%) Snow
7 3 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.03%) LogicMonitor