Collaborative Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South West

Collaborative Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £625 -
% change year-on-year -24.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Collaborative Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,635 1,536 2,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.52% 90.67% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 957 1,675
10th Percentile £323 £228 £222
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 158 343
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.18 £13.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

Collaborative Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Collaborative Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Collaborative Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol - 4 £425 - 3
Collaborative Engineering
England

Collaborative Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Apigee
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Figma
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Vitest
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Google