Collaborative Working Job Trends in England

Collaborative Working
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 95 104
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 0
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 2,196 1,356 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.12% 3.14% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 3.52% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 658 771
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,438 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +6.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,388 38,475 54,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.58% 89.15% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 21,744 29,840
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,267
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in England

Collaborative Working
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Collaborative Working.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in England over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Working in England

Collaborative Working
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the England region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
North of England +95 521 £45,000 - 452
South East +9 459 £47,500 +18.75% 370
London -29 459 £65,000 - 978
North West +84 308 £45,000 - 264
South West +20 298 £57,500 -6.12% 222
Midlands +8 292 £41,045 -3.42% 227
West Midlands -11 180 £41,795 -1.66% 158
East of England -28 141 £47,500 +21.79% 160
Yorkshire +64 140 £42,500 -29.17% 141
East Midlands +19 111 £35,440 -16.61% 69
North East -18 73 £57,500 +98.28% 50
Collaborative Working
UK

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 89 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.14%) Confluence
4 19 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.68%) CMS
6 12 (0.55%) WordPress
7 9 (0.41%) Apache
8 5 (0.23%) nginx
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.091%) Drupal
10 2 (0.091%) Gentran
10 2 (0.091%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.091%) Luigi
10 2 (0.091%) Office Communications Server
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.091%) SAS
10 2 (0.091%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 164 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 161 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.87%) Revit
5 13 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.46%) Simulink
8 9 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.41%) InDesign
8 9 (0.41%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.32%) Navisworks
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.18%) CapCut
11 4 (0.18%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.14%) Fusion 360
12 3 (0.14%) Maya
12 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.27%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.23%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.091%) Academy Housing
7 2 (0.091%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.091%) Maximo
7 2 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.091%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.091%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.091%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.091%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.046%) Primavera
8 1 (0.046%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.046%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 276 (12.57%) Azure
2 206 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 191 (8.70%) AWS
4 184 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 96 (4.37%) SaaS
6 64 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (2.87%) GCP
8 56 (2.55%) Entra ID
9 43 (1.96%) GitHub
10 39 (1.78%) Serverless
11 31 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
13 28 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.23%) Google Analytics
14 27 (1.23%) OneDrive
15 25 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (1.00%) OCI
17 21 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (0.87%) PowerApps
19 18 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.37%) Firewall
2 67 (3.05%) DNS
3 50 (2.28%) DHCP
4 44 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 44 (2.00%) VPN
5 35 (1.59%) Network Security
6 30 (1.37%) VLAN
7 28 (1.28%) WAN
8 26 (1.18%) HTTP
9 24 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (0.96%) Wireless
11 19 (0.87%) LAN
12 14 (0.64%) Broadband
13 13 (0.59%) BGP
14 10 (0.46%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.46%) VoIP
15 8 (0.36%) Ethernet
16 7 (0.32%) Internet
16 7 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
16 7 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (7.15%) Power BI
2 63 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.19%) Relational Database
4 30 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (1.14%) Redis
6 23 (1.05%) BigQuery
6 23 (1.05%) Tableau
7 20 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (0.82%) Big Data
8 18 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (0.77%) Power Query
9 17 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (0.73%) Metadata
11 15 (0.68%) MySQL
11 15 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
12 14 (0.64%) GIS
13 13 (0.59%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.50%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 94 (4.28%) Git
2 82 (3.73%) JIRA
3 32 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.05%) GitLab
5 9 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.27%) Postman
8 5 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.23%) MSI
9 4 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.18%) Maven
9 4 (0.18%) Storybook
9 4 (0.18%) Vite
10 3 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.14%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 1,003 (45.67%) Social Skills
2 455 (20.72%) Finance
3 381 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (12.39%) Organisational Skills
5 193 (8.79%) Marketing
6 165 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 163 (7.42%) Public Sector
8 150 (6.83%) Aerospace
9 121 (5.51%) Manufacturing
10 112 (5.10%) Legal
11 99 (4.51%) Retail
12 95 (4.33%) Law
13 90 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
14 82 (3.73%) Electronics
15 69 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (3.01%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.91%) Banking
18 41 (1.87%) Military
19 33 (1.50%) Local Government
20 30 (1.37%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 259 (11.79%) Senior
2 190 (8.65%) Analyst
3 187 (8.52%) Developer
4 161 (7.33%) Lead
5 93 (4.23%) Software Engineer
6 81 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (3.55%) IT Support
8 63 (2.87%) Security Engineer
9 59 (2.69%) Architect
9 59 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 57 (2.60%) Support Analyst
11 56 (2.55%) IT Manager
12 52 (2.37%) Consultant
13 51 (2.32%) Administrator
13 51 (2.32%) Development Manager
14 50 (2.28%) Support Engineer
15 48 (2.19%) Business Development Manager
15 48 (2.19%) Business Manager
16 46 (2.09%) Coordinator
17 45 (2.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (4.14%) Node.js
2 81 (3.69%) REST
3 64 (2.91%) Terraform
4 62 (2.82%) HTML
5 47 (2.14%) CSS
6 46 (2.09%) .NET
7 39 (1.78%) React
8 31 (1.41%) Middleware
9 28 (1.28%) AngularJS
10 27 (1.23%) RESTful
10 27 (1.23%) Vue
11 25 (1.14%) EDI
12 24 (1.09%) JSON
12 24 (1.09%) SOAP
13 21 (0.96%) Kafka
14 17 (0.77%) Spring
15 16 (0.73%) Spring Boot
16 15 (0.68%) XML
17 14 (0.64%) HTML5
17 14 (0.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 137 (6.24%) Onboarding
2 132 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 125 (5.69%) Driving Licence
4 88 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
5 77 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 59 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 48 (2.19%) Social Media
8 36 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.09%) Analogue Electronics
11 23 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.05%) NHS
12 21 (0.96%) Blog
13 20 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.73%) Data Centre
17 15 (0.68%) Security Posture
18 14 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
18 14 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.38%) Windows
2 85 (3.87%) Linux
3 56 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.68%) Unix
5 14 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.41%) Android
7 9 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
7 9 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.36%) CentOS
8 8 (0.36%) Debian
8 8 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.091%) Rocky
10 2 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (31.06%) Problem-Solving
2 652 (29.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 410 (18.67%) Agile
4 307 (13.98%) Decision-Making
5 276 (12.57%) Customer Service
6 257 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 252 (11.48%) AI
8 235 (10.70%) Cyber Intelligence
9 233 (10.61%) Analytics
10 223 (10.15%) Mentoring
11 216 (9.84%) CRM
12 211 (9.61%) CI/CD
13 209 (9.52%) Project Delivery
14 192 (8.74%) Service Delivery
15 172 (7.83%) Software Engineering
16 171 (7.79%) Roadmaps
17 170 (7.74%) Validation
18 168 (7.65%) Collaborative Culture
19 162 (7.38%) Project Management
20 157 (7.15%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 242 (11.02%) SQL
2 191 (8.70%) Python
3 119 (5.42%) JavaScript
4 79 (3.60%) Java
5 72 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 63 (2.87%) C#
7 58 (2.64%) C
8 44 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 26 (1.18%) PHP
10 24 (1.09%) C++
11 20 (0.91%) VBA
12 18 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 17 (0.77%) ABAP
13 17 (0.77%) Embedded C
14 15 (0.68%) Bash
14 15 (0.68%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.46%) Bicep
16 8 (0.36%) R
17 6 (0.27%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 328 (14.94%) Degree
2 249 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 122 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 79 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 63 (2.87%) DBS Check
6 49 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 40 (1.82%) ACCA
9 34 (1.55%) CIMA
10 31 (1.41%) HNC
10 31 (1.41%) HND
11 23 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.00%) CISSP
13 20 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.73%) Postgraduate
16 15 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
16 15 (0.68%) CISM
16 15 (0.68%) PMP
17 12 (0.55%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (6.56%) QA
2 112 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 110 (5.01%) Accessibility
4 74 (3.37%) GDPR
5 34 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (1.32%) PMO
8 24 (1.09%) SLA
9 22 (1.00%) GAAP
10 19 (0.87%) NIST
11 16 (0.73%) WCAG
12 12 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
12 12 (0.55%) TickIT
13 11 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.46%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.41%) NCSC
16 8 (0.36%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.27%) ISO 19650
17 6 (0.27%) PERC
System Software
1 88 (4.01%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.05%) Docker
3 27 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.18%) Firmware
5 25 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.23%) ClearTrust
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.046%) KVM
9 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.046%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 68 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (1.78%) Ansible
4 11 (0.50%) Puppet
4 11 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.36%) Grafana
6 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.32%) SCCM
7 6 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.14%) BMC PATROL
9 3 (0.14%) Control-M
9 3 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.14%) Plesk
9 3 (0.14%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.091%) Kibana
10 2 (0.091%) Nessus
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 502 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.01%) Google
3 58 (2.64%) Salesforce
4 49 (2.23%) Oracle
5 46 (2.09%) SAP
6 37 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.64%) Cisco
7 36 (1.64%) VMware
8 33 (1.50%) Sage
9 30 (1.37%) Databricks
10 27 (1.23%) YouTube
11 26 (1.18%) Adobe
12 22 (1.00%) HubSpot
13 15 (0.68%) Civica
13 15 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.64%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.55%) IBM
15 12 (0.55%) iManage
16 11 (0.50%) Juniper
16 11 (0.50%) Red Hat