Collaborative Working Job Trends in the South West

Collaborative Working
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 76 74
Rank change year-on-year -39 -2 +35
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 115 96 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.39% 2.92% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 3.43% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 44 50 192
10th Percentile £26,125 £32,000 £31,775
25th Percentile £30,688 £38,750 £38,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,738 £66,367 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.63% +32.73% -1.96%
75th Percentile £55,000 £80,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,270 - £78,074
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -15.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,920 2,796 7,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.54% 85.06% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,905 1,812 5,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the South West

Collaborative Working
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Collaborative Working.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the South West over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Working in the South West

Collaborative Working
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Gloucestershire -3 44 £35,000 -33.33% 13
Devon -11 24 £48,750 +39.29% 5
Wiltshire -18 15 £46,869 +37.85% 11
Bristol -37 12 £33,500 -50.37% 19
Cornwall - 9 £32,500 - 2
Somerset -44 6 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Dorset -22 4 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.35%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) WordPress
3 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.61%) IIS
5 2 (1.74%) Apache
5 2 (1.74%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.78%) Azure
2 13 (11.30%) OCI
3 11 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (8.70%) AWS
5 8 (6.96%) GCP
6 7 (6.09%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.48%) Canva
8 4 (3.48%) Google Analytics
8 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.61%) Figma
9 3 (2.61%) GitHub
9 3 (2.61%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.61%) Serverless
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) Firewall
2 6 (5.22%) Network Security
3 5 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (2.61%) BGP
4 3 (2.61%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (2.61%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.61%) SNMP
4 3 (2.61%) VLAN
4 3 (2.61%) VPN
4 3 (2.61%) WAN
5 2 (1.74%) AMQP
5 2 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.74%) LTE
5 2 (1.74%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.87%) DHCP
6 1 (0.87%) DNS
6 1 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.09%) Power BI
2 4 (3.48%) Big Data
2 4 (3.48%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (3.48%) MySQL
3 3 (2.61%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.61%) MariaDB
3 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.87%) Metadata
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Git
2 5 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) MSI
4 2 (1.74%) GitLab
4 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.74%) Subversion
4 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
General
1 55 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 42 (36.52%) Finance
3 34 (29.57%) Aerospace
4 17 (14.78%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.83%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.96%) Electronics
7 8 (6.96%) Marketing
8 6 (5.22%) Games
9 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.48%) Advertising
10 4 (3.48%) Brand Awareness
11 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.61%) Military
11 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.87%) Back Office
12 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (8.70%) Architect
2 10 (8.70%) Senior
3 9 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Electronics Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Graduate
4 8 (6.96%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Graduate Support Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Graduate Systems Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) RF Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Support Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Systems Support
4 8 (6.96%) Systems Support Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Developer
6 6 (5.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Lecturer
6 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) CSS
1 9 (7.83%) HTML
2 6 (5.22%) CSS3
2 6 (5.22%) HTML5
2 6 (5.22%) React
2 6 (5.22%) RESTful
3 5 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.35%) REST
4 4 (3.48%) .NET
5 3 (2.61%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.61%) ATL
5 3 (2.61%) COM
5 3 (2.61%) GeoJSON
5 3 (2.61%) jQuery
5 3 (2.61%) MFC
5 3 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.61%) Spring
5 3 (2.61%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.61%) Vue
5 3 (2.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Social Media
2 8 (6.96%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.48%) Podcast
4 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.48%) Video Editing
4 4 (3.48%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (2.61%) Graphic Design
5 3 (2.61%) Photography
6 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.74%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.74%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.13%) Linux
2 14 (12.17%) Windows
3 6 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.74%) CentOS
4 2 (1.74%) Debian
4 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.74%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (37.39%) Agile
2 40 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (19.13%) Collaborative Culture
5 20 (17.39%) Validation
6 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (15.65%) Test Automation
8 17 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (14.78%) Project Delivery
9 15 (13.04%) CI/CD
9 15 (13.04%) Decision-Making
10 14 (12.17%) Analytics
11 13 (11.30%) Containerisation
11 13 (11.30%) DevOps
12 12 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (9.57%) Customer Service
14 10 (8.70%) Systems Engineering
15 9 (7.83%) Commercial Awareness
15 9 (7.83%) Creative Thinking
16 8 (6.96%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.65%) Python
2 10 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 8 (6.96%) SQL
4 7 (6.09%) Java
5 6 (5.22%) Bash
5 6 (5.22%) C#
5 6 (5.22%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.48%) PHP
6 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.61%) Bicep
8 2 (1.74%) C++
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (38.26%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.48%) Degree
3 25 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.83%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.22%) DBS Check
6 5 (4.35%) ACCA
6 5 (4.35%) CIMA
7 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.74%) CCIE
8 2 (1.74%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (1.74%) CCNP
8 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.70%) QA
3 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.61%) NCSC
4 3 (2.61%) WCAG
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (9.57%) Docker
2 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (18.26%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.30%) Ansible
2 13 (11.30%) Terraform
3 4 (3.48%) Puppet
4 3 (2.61%) Plesk
5 2 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.74%) Argo
5 2 (1.74%) Grafana
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.74%) Rancher
5 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.74%) vRealize
5 2 (1.74%) yum
6 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.30%) Oracle
3 7 (6.09%) Adobe
4 6 (5.22%) Google
5 5 (4.35%) Cisco
5 5 (4.35%) HubSpot
6 4 (3.48%) Marketo
6 4 (3.48%) Pardot
6 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.61%) Databricks
7 3 (2.61%) Meraki
8 2 (1.74%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.74%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.74%) SAP
8 2 (1.74%) VMware
9 1 (0.87%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.87%) Workday
9 1 (0.87%) Zoho