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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 82 84
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 179 305 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.65% 3.48% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 3.91% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 129 139 196
10th Percentile £27,250 £40,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £50,967 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £62,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% +22.55% -11.30%
75th Percentile £55,000 £85,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £99,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £49,429 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +14.29% -12.50%

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 8,617 7,792 10,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.32% 89.03% 86.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,224 3,547 7,357
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,250 £37,500
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,425 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.46% +6.83% -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 1 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 1 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 -50 63 £46,000 -34.29% 33
Hampshire +11 42 £29,500 -46.36% 22
Berkshire -50 32 £32,500 -57.38% 16
Surrey +8 24 £37,500 -53.13% 15
Buckinghamshire -22 23 £51,250 -17.48% 12
East Sussex +16 18 £60,000 -33.33% 7
Kent -15 11 £28,000 -49.09% 3
West Sussex -5 10 £32,000 -55.86% 4
Oxfordshire +10 8 £35,000 -41.67% 5
Sussex -11 4 £38,000 +38.18% 1
Middlesex -4 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 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.91%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.23%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (2.23%) SketchUp
5 3 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.12%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.56%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.76%) Azure
1 30 (16.76%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (7.26%) Entra ID
3 11 (6.15%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.03%) AWS
5 8 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.91%) OneDrive
7 6 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.79%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.23%) SaaS
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.68%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.68%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.68%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.12%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.12%) Figma
11 2 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.50%) DNS
2 15 (8.38%) DHCP
3 13 (7.26%) Wireless
4 12 (6.70%) Firewall
4 12 (6.70%) VPN
5 10 (5.59%) VLAN
6 9 (5.03%) VoIP
7 8 (4.47%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.23%) Internet
8 4 (2.23%) NAS
8 4 (2.23%) SAN
8 4 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.68%) BGP
9 3 (1.68%) IPsec
10 1 (0.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.47%) Power BI
2 5 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.23%) MySQL
3 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.12%) Tableau
6 1 (0.56%) Big Data
6 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.91%) GitLab
2 6 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.79%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) Git
4 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) TestRail
5 1 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 89 (49.72%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.11%) Marketing
3 34 (18.99%) Finance
4 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.06%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (7.82%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (7.26%) Billing
8 9 (5.03%) Aerospace
9 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.91%) Electronics
10 7 (3.91%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (2.23%) German Language
14 2 (1.12%) Aeronautics
14 2 (1.12%) Publishing
14 2 (1.12%) Retail
15 1 (0.56%) Automotive
15 1 (0.56%) Legal
15 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (11.17%) IT Support
2 15 (8.38%) Consultant
2 15 (8.38%) Developer
3 11 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support
3 11 (6.15%) Analyst
3 11 (6.15%) Applications Developer
4 10 (5.59%) Account Manager
4 10 (5.59%) Support Engineer
5 8 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (4.47%) Junior
5 8 (4.47%) Marketing Executive
6 7 (3.91%) Lead
6 7 (3.91%) Managing Consultant
6 7 (3.91%) Support Specialist
6 7 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (3.35%) Graduate
7 6 (3.35%) Recruitment Consultant
7 6 (3.35%) Support Technician
7 6 (3.35%) Systems Support
7 6 (3.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.70%) .NET
2 11 (6.15%) .NET Core
3 4 (2.23%) JSON
3 4 (2.23%) XML
4 3 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.68%) Middleware
4 3 (1.68%) React
5 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.12%) Django
5 2 (1.12%) Kafka
5 2 (1.12%) Next.js
5 2 (1.12%) Web Services
6 1 (0.56%) CSS
6 1 (0.56%) HTML
6 1 (0.56%) Mustache
6 1 (0.56%) Node.js
6 1 (0.56%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.56%) REST
6 1 (0.56%) Spring
6 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.08%) Onboarding
2 16 (8.94%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 8 (4.47%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.23%) Blog
5 4 (2.23%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.23%) Photography
5 4 (2.23%) Smart Home
5 4 (2.23%) Social Media
5 4 (2.23%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.68%) Cybercrime
6 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.68%) Replication
6 3 (1.68%) Robotics
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.94%) Windows
2 12 (6.70%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.47%) Linux
4 5 (2.79%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.68%) AIX
5 3 (1.68%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.91%) Agile
2 39 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (12.85%) Collaborative Culture
5 22 (12.29%) Validation
6 19 (10.61%) CRM
6 19 (10.61%) Process Improvement
7 18 (10.06%) Service Delivery
8 17 (9.50%) Analytics
9 16 (8.94%) DevOps
10 15 (8.38%) Asset Management
10 15 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (7.82%) AI
11 14 (7.82%) SDLC
12 13 (7.26%) Red Team
12 13 (7.26%) Risk Management
13 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (6.15%) ITSM
14 11 (6.15%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.38%) Python
2 14 (7.82%) C#
3 11 (6.15%) PowerShell
3 11 (6.15%) SQL
4 4 (2.23%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.68%) Bash
5 3 (1.68%) C++
5 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.56%) ABAP
7 1 (0.56%) Java
7 1 (0.56%) Perl
7 1 (0.56%) R
7 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (13.97%) Degree
2 19 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.68%) CISM
6 3 (1.68%) CISSP
7 2 (1.12%) CGEIT
7 2 (1.12%) CISA
7 2 (1.12%) CRISC
7 2 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CEH
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (3.35%) QA
5 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.23%) GDPR
6 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.68%) SLA
7 2 (1.12%) NIST
7 2 (1.12%) PMO
8 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.56%) Section 508
8 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.06%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.47%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.23%) vSphere
6 3 (1.68%) Docker
7 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.56%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 9 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.79%) Ansible
2 5 (2.79%) Terraform
3 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.68%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.68%) Grafana
4 3 (1.68%) Netcool
5 2 (1.12%) Nessus
5 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) WMI
6 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (29.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.59%) VMware
3 8 (4.47%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.35%) Adobe
4 6 (3.35%) Zoho
5 5 (2.79%) Cisco
5 5 (2.79%) Google
5 5 (2.79%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.23%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.23%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.23%) Meraki
6 4 (2.23%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.23%) Sage
7 3 (1.68%) Apple
7 3 (1.68%) IBM
7 3 (1.68%) Juniper
7 3 (1.68%) Oracle
7 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.68%) Snow
7 3 (1.68%) SolarWinds