Collaborative Working Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 82 39
Rank change year-on-year -50 -43 +79
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 55 129 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.56% 2.98% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 3.55% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 38 41 68
10th Percentile £25,625 £24,000 £28,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,038
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £52,500 £90,000 £66,688
90th Percentile £53,625 £112,500 £84,125
South East median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,110 3,635 3,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.18% 83.83% 93.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,580 1,755 2,139
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,911 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,525 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% +2.77% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Collaborative Working.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Berkshire -43 30 £34,500 -59.41% 117
Buckinghamshire +9 16 £44,000 +3.53% 14
Oxfordshire +16 9 £35,000 +2.94% 13
Collaborative Working
South East

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 4 (7.27%) AutoCAD
2 3 (5.45%) Windchill
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (3.64%) AWS
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Firewall
2 5 (9.09%) DHCP
2 5 (9.09%) DNS
2 5 (9.09%) NAS
2 5 (9.09%) SAN
2 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.09%) VLAN
2 5 (9.09%) Wireless
3 2 (3.64%) Network Security
4 1 (1.82%) LAN
4 1 (1.82%) VPN
4 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Git
1 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.82%) JMeter
1 1 (1.82%) JUnit
1 1 (1.82%) Mockito
General
1 38 (69.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.73%) Marketing
3 16 (29.09%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (21.82%) Billing
5 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.64%) Finance
9 1 (1.82%) French Language
9 1 (1.82%) German Language
9 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Consultant
2 9 (16.36%) Managing Consultant
3 7 (12.73%) Recruitment Consultant
4 5 (9.09%) Analyst
4 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Account Manager
5 4 (7.27%) CAD Technician
5 4 (7.27%) Junior
5 4 (7.27%) Junior Sales Representative
5 4 (7.27%) Sales Representative
5 4 (7.27%) Technical Sales Representative
6 3 (5.45%) Administrator
6 3 (5.45%) Associate Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Developer
7 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (1.82%) Apache Camel
1 1 (1.82%) Django
1 1 (1.82%) FastAPI
1 1 (1.82%) Hibernate
1 1 (1.82%) HTML
1 1 (1.82%) jQuery
1 1 (1.82%) REST
1 1 (1.82%) Spring
1 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
1 1 (1.82%) Web Services
1 1 (1.82%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Onboarding
1 17 (30.91%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.27%) Smart Home
3 2 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) Red Team
2 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.73%) Agile
4 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (9.09%) Business Continuity
5 5 (9.09%) CRM
5 5 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (9.09%) High Availability
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 5 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (7.27%) CAD
7 3 (5.45%) Change Management
7 3 (5.45%) Configuration Management
7 3 (5.45%) ERP
7 3 (5.45%) PLM
7 3 (5.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (1.82%) C#
2 1 (1.82%) C++
2 1 (1.82%) Java
2 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.82%) R
2 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.82%) SQL
2 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) CCNA
3 1 (1.82%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (1.82%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.82%) OSCP
3 1 (1.82%) OSWP
3 1 (1.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (9.09%) vSphere
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Kibana
1 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
2 5 (9.09%) Palo Alto
2 5 (9.09%) VMware
3 4 (7.27%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Juniper
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Splunk