Critical Success Factor Job Trends in the South East

Critical Success Factors
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Critical Success Factor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 - 334
Rank change year-on-year - - -30
Permanent jobs citing Critical Success Factor 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.011% - 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% - 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32,750
25th Percentile £66,250 - £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £41,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,500 £53,138
% change year-on-year -5.59% +34.56% -3.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Critical Success Factor 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 12,772 7,855 10,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.30% 87.58% 80.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 4,165 6,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Critical Success Factor
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Critical Success Factor relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Critical Success Factor job vacancy trend in the South East

Critical Success Factor
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Critical Success Factor.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Critical Success Factor

Critical Success Factor
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 Critical Success Factor within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 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 - 2 £67,500 - 1
Berkshire - 2 £67,500 - 1
Critical Success Factor
England

Critical Success Factor
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Terragrunt
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Transparency
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft