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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 69 70
Rank change year-on-year -55 +1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 168 361 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.62% 3.84% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 4.39% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 104 166 109
10th Percentile £27,040 £38,267 £33,675
25th Percentile £27,500 £50,242 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £52,500 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £93,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.25% +7.27% -12.00%

All Process and 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 8,453 8,218 6,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.34% 87.53% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,033 4,116 4,705
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,833 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 64 £35,000 -45.10% 65
Hampshire -7 38 £30,000 -45.45% 26
Berkshire -43 34 £32,500 -53.57% 43
Buckinghamshire -20 22 £48,000 -5.82% 16
Kent -11 20 £28,000 -49.09% 8
Surrey -4 17 £27,040 -66.20% 21
West Sussex -1 14 £40,000 -44.83% 9
East Sussex +11 9 £60,000 -2.04% 9
Oxfordshire +7 8 £35,000 -39.13% 6
Middlesex -4 3 - - 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 12 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.17%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.38%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (2.38%) AutoCAD
4 4 (2.38%) SketchUp
5 3 (1.79%) Windchill
6 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.60%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 9 (5.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.60%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.29%) Azure
2 22 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (5.95%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.76%) AWS
4 8 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.98%) Google Analytics
5 5 (2.98%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.38%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.79%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.19%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.19%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.74%) DNS
2 12 (7.14%) DHCP
2 12 (7.14%) Wireless
3 9 (5.36%) Firewall
4 7 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.17%) VLAN
4 7 (4.17%) VoIP
4 7 (4.17%) VPN
5 6 (3.57%) NAS
5 6 (3.57%) SAN
6 5 (2.98%) Internet
7 2 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.60%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (2.98%) Power BI
3 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.19%) Tableau
5 1 (0.60%) Big Data
5 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.98%) GitLab
1 5 (2.98%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.38%) JIRA
3 2 (1.19%) Git
3 2 (1.19%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.19%) Selenium
3 2 (1.19%) TestRail
4 1 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 82 (48.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.24%) Finance
3 31 (18.45%) Marketing
4 20 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.12%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (8.33%) Billing
7 12 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (6.55%) Aerospace
9 9 (5.36%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.17%) Electronics
11 5 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.38%) German Language
13 2 (1.19%) Publishing
13 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.60%) Automotive
14 1 (0.60%) Avionics
14 1 (0.60%) French Language
14 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (11.31%) Consultant
2 18 (10.71%) IT Support
3 9 (5.36%) 2nd Line Support
3 9 (5.36%) Accountant
3 9 (5.36%) Developer
3 9 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (5.36%) Managing Consultant
3 9 (5.36%) Systems Accountant
4 8 (4.76%) Junior
4 8 (4.76%) Lead
4 8 (4.76%) Recruitment Consultant
4 8 (4.76%) Support Engineer
4 8 (4.76%) Technical Support
5 7 (4.17%) Administrator
5 7 (4.17%) Senior
6 6 (3.57%) Graduate
6 6 (3.57%) Systems Support
7 5 (2.98%) Analyst
7 5 (2.98%) Architect
7 5 (2.98%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.57%) .NET
2 5 (2.98%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.79%) Middleware
3 3 (1.79%) React
3 3 (1.79%) Web Services
4 2 (1.19%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.19%) Kafka
4 2 (1.19%) Next.js
5 1 (0.60%) Django
5 1 (0.60%) Mustache
5 1 (0.60%) Node.js
5 1 (0.60%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.60%) REST
5 1 (0.60%) Spring
5 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.07%) Onboarding
2 20 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.38%) Blog
6 4 (2.38%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.38%) Photography
6 4 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.38%) Smart Home
6 4 (2.38%) Social Media
7 3 (1.79%) Cybercrime
7 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.19%) Robotics
9 1 (0.60%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.93%) Windows
2 11 (6.55%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.36%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.57%) Linux
5 3 (1.79%) AIX
5 3 (1.79%) Unix
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.24%) Agile
3 31 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 17 (10.12%) Collaborative Culture
5 17 (10.12%) Red Team
6 16 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 15 (8.93%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 14 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (7.74%) ERP
10 12 (7.14%) Analytics
10 12 (7.14%) Change Management
10 12 (7.14%) ITSM
10 12 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
11 11 (6.55%) CRM
11 11 (6.55%) Data Analysis
12 10 (5.95%) Asset Management
12 10 (5.95%) Service Delivery
12 10 (5.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.52%) SQL
2 10 (5.95%) VBA
3 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.76%) Python
4 6 (3.57%) C#
5 3 (1.79%) Bash
5 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.19%) C++
6 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.60%) Java
7 1 (0.60%) Perl
7 1 (0.60%) R
7 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (13.10%) Degree
2 16 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.36%) ACCA
3 9 (5.36%) CIMA
4 7 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.38%) CISM
6 4 (2.38%) CISSP
7 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.19%) CEH
8 2 (1.19%) CGEIT
8 2 (1.19%) CISA
8 2 (1.19%) CRISC
8 2 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (1.19%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.38%) QA
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.79%) GDPR
3 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 3 (1.79%) SLA
4 2 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
5 1 (0.60%) Section 508
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 7 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.57%) vSphere
5 3 (1.79%) Docker
6 1 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.60%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 7 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.38%) Ansible
3 4 (2.38%) Terraform
4 3 (1.79%) Grafana
4 3 (1.79%) Netcool
5 2 (1.19%) Nessus
5 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.60%) Puppet
6 1 (0.60%) WMI
6 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 46 (27.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.74%) VMware
3 12 (7.14%) Oracle
4 10 (5.95%) SAP
5 9 (5.36%) Adaptive Insights
5 9 (5.36%) Workday
6 6 (3.57%) Adobe
6 6 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
6 6 (3.57%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.57%) Zoho
7 5 (2.98%) Google
8 4 (2.38%) Sage
9 3 (1.79%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.79%) IBM
9 3 (1.79%) Juniper
9 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.79%) Snow
9 3 (1.79%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.19%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (1.19%) Netskope