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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 77 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +37
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 435 297 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.32% 3.34% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 3.79% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 277 91 190
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,040 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £29,500 £38,785
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -18.26%
75th Percentile £66,672 £56,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,750 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -1.00%

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 13,437 7,830 10,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.81% 87.95% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,576 4,186 5,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +81 182 £45,000 +2.86% 129
Surrey -12 109 £63,857 +136.16% 65
Berkshire +56 102 £42,500 -2.86% 67
Hampshire -24 71 £54,554 +16.69% 58
Buckinghamshire +21 43 £47,500 +13.10% 32
Oxfordshire +6 37 £50,000 -41.18% 31
Kent -38 35 £42,500 +13.33% 26
Middlesex +20 13 £97,500 - 9
West Sussex -36 11 £75,000 +87.50% 24
East Sussex -5 9 £41,351 -6.71% 17
Sussex - 1 £59,500 - 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 10 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.46%) Confluence
2 2 (0.46%) Gentran
2 2 (0.46%) IIS
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.46%) SAS
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 45 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.46%) CapCut
6 1 (0.23%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.23%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.23%) Revit
6 1 (0.23%) Simulink
6 1 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.53%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.92%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.69%) Shopify
5 2 (0.46%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.46%) Siebel CRM
5 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (8.97%) AWS
2 39 (8.97%) Azure
2 39 (8.97%) SaaS
3 25 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 17 (3.91%) Snowflake
5 5 (1.15%) GCP
5 5 (1.15%) GitHub
6 4 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.92%) Entra ID
6 4 (0.92%) Google Analytics
7 3 (0.69%) Asana
7 3 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (0.69%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (0.69%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.46%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.46%) Figma
8 2 (0.46%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.91%) Firewall
2 12 (2.76%) DNS
3 11 (2.53%) VPN
3 11 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.61%) DHCP
4 7 (1.61%) WAN
5 6 (1.38%) Internet
5 6 (1.38%) LAN
5 6 (1.38%) Network Security
5 6 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.38%) VLAN
6 4 (0.92%) Wireless
7 2 (0.46%) ATM
7 2 (0.46%) HTTP
7 2 (0.46%) SAN
8 1 (0.23%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.23%) VoIP
8 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.75%) Power BI
2 19 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.68%) Redis
4 6 (1.38%) GIS
5 5 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.92%) Metadata
7 3 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.46%) Looker
8 2 (0.46%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.46%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (0.46%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.46%) Tableau
9 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.23%) MySQL
9 1 (0.23%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (5.06%) JIRA
2 17 (3.91%) Git
3 7 (1.61%) GitLab
4 4 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.46%) MSTest
6 2 (0.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 247 (56.78%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.46%) Finance
3 86 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
5 53 (12.18%) Aerospace
6 30 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (6.67%) Marketing
8 28 (6.44%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (5.98%) Electronics
10 24 (5.52%) Manufacturing
11 23 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (3.91%) Legal
12 17 (3.91%) Local Government
12 17 (3.91%) Retail
13 13 (2.99%) Public Sector
14 8 (1.84%) Advertising
14 8 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.61%) Avionics
16 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (11.49%) Analyst
2 45 (10.34%) Lead
3 35 (8.05%) Developer
4 33 (7.59%) Senior
5 29 (6.67%) Support Analyst
6 25 (5.75%) Consultant
7 22 (5.06%) IT Support
8 18 (4.14%) Coordinator
8 18 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (3.91%) Software Developer
10 16 (3.68%) Architect
10 16 (3.68%) Lead Developer
10 16 (3.68%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (3.68%) Lead Software Developer
10 16 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (3.45%) Data Scientist
12 13 (2.99%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.76%) Support Technician
14 11 (2.53%) Management Consultant
14 11 (2.53%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.37%) Node.js
2 18 (4.14%) Vue
3 9 (2.07%) Terraform
4 7 (1.61%) .NET
5 6 (1.38%) HTML
6 5 (1.15%) Playwright
6 5 (1.15%) YAML
7 4 (0.92%) ADO
7 4 (0.92%) JSON
7 4 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (0.92%) React
8 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.69%) CSS
8 3 (0.69%) Jinja
8 3 (0.69%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.69%) PySpark
8 3 (0.69%) RESTful
9 2 (0.46%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.46%) Jest
9 2 (0.46%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.74%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.75%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.84%) Blog
6 8 (1.84%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.38%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.38%) Social Media
8 5 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.15%) FPGA
8 5 (1.15%) SCADA
9 4 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.59%) Windows
2 32 (7.36%) Linux
3 9 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.92%) Android
5 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (38.16%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (35.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 75 (17.24%) Customer Service
4 72 (16.55%) Agile
4 72 (16.55%) CRM
5 69 (15.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 64 (14.71%) Decision-Making
7 49 (11.26%) AI
7 49 (11.26%) Project Management
8 45 (10.34%) Customer Experience
9 42 (9.66%) CI/CD
10 38 (8.74%) Service Delivery
11 35 (8.05%) Technical Leadership
12 34 (7.82%) Cyber Intelligence
13 33 (7.59%) Business Development
14 32 (7.36%) Process Improvement
14 32 (7.36%) Project Delivery
15 31 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (6.90%) Mentoring
16 30 (6.90%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.90%) SQL
2 29 (6.67%) Python
3 23 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 22 (5.06%) TypeScript
5 16 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 13 (2.99%) C#
7 6 (1.38%) ABAP
8 5 (1.15%) C
8 5 (1.15%) MATLAB
9 4 (0.92%) Bash
9 4 (0.92%) C++
9 4 (0.92%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.92%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.69%) Perl
11 2 (0.46%) Java
11 2 (0.46%) PHP
11 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.46%) R
12 1 (0.23%) Ada
12 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 93 (21.38%) Degree
2 57 (13.10%) Security Cleared
3 26 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.53%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.07%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.84%) ACCA
7 8 (1.84%) CIMA
7 8 (1.84%) CISM
7 8 (1.84%) CISSP
7 8 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.61%) CCNP
8 7 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.61%) HNC
9 6 (1.38%) PMP
10 5 (1.15%) HND
10 5 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.92%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.36%) QA
2 22 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.91%) PMO
4 14 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (2.53%) GDPR
7 10 (2.30%) Good Clinical Practice
8 9 (2.07%) Data Quality
8 9 (2.07%) NIST
9 7 (1.61%) SLA
10 5 (1.15%) WCAG
11 4 (0.92%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.46%) CDISC
14 1 (0.23%) ECSS
14 1 (0.23%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.15%) ClearTrust
2 5 (1.15%) Docker
3 4 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.46%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.69%) Grafana
4 3 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) Nessus
6 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.91%) Salesforce
3 14 (3.22%) Sage
3 14 (3.22%) SAP
4 13 (2.99%) Oracle
5 11 (2.53%) Cisco
6 7 (1.61%) Aruba
6 7 (1.61%) Databricks
6 7 (1.61%) EMC
6 7 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.38%) Google
7 6 (1.38%) Instagram
8 5 (1.15%) Thales
8 5 (1.15%) VMware
9 4 (0.92%) Facebook
9 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.92%) Qualys
9 4 (0.92%) Splunk
10 3 (0.69%) F5