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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 55 54
Rank change year-on-year -47 -1 +55
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 69 156 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.71% 4.61% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 5.02% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45 76 77
10th Percentile £27,500 - £30,120
25th Percentile £28,000 £50,967 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £68,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.91% +25.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £52,500 £93,250 £66,000
90th Percentile £55,750 £112,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £35,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -44.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Process & 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 3,245 3,106 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.78% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,770 1,383 2,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Berkshire -50 33 £32,500 -53.57% 32
Buckinghamshire -14 27 £50,000 -1.90% 7
Oxfordshire +11 9 £35,000 -41.67% 9
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) AutoCAD
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.35%) Windchill
3 1 (1.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.59%) Azure
2 5 (7.25%) AWS
2 5 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.90%) GCP
4 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.45%) Canva
5 1 (1.45%) Figma
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.04%) DNS
2 8 (11.59%) Firewall
3 7 (10.14%) DHCP
3 7 (10.14%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.70%) NAS
4 6 (8.70%) SAN
4 6 (8.70%) VLAN
4 6 (8.70%) Wireless
5 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Power BI
1 2 (2.90%) Tableau
2 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) GitLab
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) JUnit
General
1 38 (55.07%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Marketing
3 16 (23.19%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (18.84%) Billing
5 7 (10.14%) Manufacturing
6 6 (8.70%) Finance
6 6 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.35%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Automotive
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Publishing
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Consultant
2 8 (11.59%) Managing Consultant
2 8 (11.59%) Recruitment Consultant
3 7 (10.14%) Administrator
3 7 (10.14%) Analyst
4 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) CRM Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) Salesforce Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Account Manager
6 4 (5.80%) CAD Technician
6 4 (5.80%) Junior
6 4 (5.80%) Junior Sales Representative
6 4 (5.80%) Sales Representative
6 4 (5.80%) Technical Sales Representative
7 3 (4.35%) Associate Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Data Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Master Data Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Principal Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Procurement Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) Django
2 1 (1.45%) .NET
2 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.45%) Kafka
2 1 (1.45%) Mustache
2 1 (1.45%) Node.js
2 1 (1.45%) React
2 1 (1.45%) REST
2 1 (1.45%) Spring
2 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (23.19%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) Smart Home
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.45%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) FMCG
6 1 (1.45%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) Red Team
2 12 (17.39%) Agile
2 12 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (14.49%) CRM
5 8 (11.59%) DevOps
5 8 (11.59%) Validation
6 7 (10.14%) Sprint Planning
6 7 (10.14%) Sprint Retrospective
7 6 (8.70%) Business Continuity
7 6 (8.70%) Computer Science
7 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.70%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (8.70%) High Availability
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 6 (8.70%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (7.25%) Data Migration
8 5 (7.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.25%) Python
2 2 (2.90%) C#
2 2 (2.90%) C++
2 2 (2.90%) SQL
2 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.45%) Java
3 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Degree
1 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Hyper-V
1 6 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (8.70%) vSphere
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
2 6 (8.70%) Palo Alto
2 6 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 6 (8.70%) VMware
3 5 (7.25%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco
4 2 (2.90%) Juniper
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe
5 1 (1.45%) SAP