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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 92 105
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -3
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 2,160 1,364 1,632
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.09% 3.17% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 3.56% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 664 796
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,875 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £96,875
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%

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 75,980 38,286 55,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.94% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 53,569 21,806 30,376
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 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -4.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +99 513 £45,000 - 390
South East +8 452 £47,500 +18.75% 324
London -33 449 £65,000 - 888
North West +85 305 £45,000 - 200
South West +17 290 £57,500 -4.17% 174
Midlands +5 290 £41,750 -1.76% 201
West Midlands -13 178 £42,500 - 138
East of England -25 140 £47,500 +21.79% 144
Yorkshire +68 137 £42,500 -29.17% 141
East Midlands +14 111 £35,220 -17.13% 63
North East -21 71 £57,500 +90.08% 51
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 87 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.16%) Confluence
4 18 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.69%) CMS
6 12 (0.56%) WordPress
7 9 (0.42%) Apache
8 5 (0.23%) nginx
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.093%) Drupal
10 2 (0.093%) Gentran
10 2 (0.093%) IIS
10 2 (0.093%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.093%) Luigi
10 2 (0.093%) Office Communications Server
10 2 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.093%) SAS
10 2 (0.093%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.093%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 160 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 156 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.88%) Revit
5 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.46%) Simulink
6 10 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (0.42%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.42%) InDesign
7 9 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.32%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.19%) CapCut
10 4 (0.19%) Fusion 360
10 4 (0.19%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.14%) Maya
11 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.28%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.23%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.093%) Academy Housing
7 2 (0.093%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.093%) Maximo
7 2 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.093%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.093%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.093%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.046%) Primavera
8 1 (0.046%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.046%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 273 (12.64%) Azure
2 202 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
3 191 (8.84%) AWS
4 178 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 95 (4.40%) SaaS
6 63 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (2.92%) GCP
7 54 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 41 (1.90%) GitHub
9 39 (1.81%) Serverless
10 31 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.25%) Google Analytics
13 26 (1.20%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.16%) OneDrive
15 24 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (1.02%) OCI
17 19 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.33%) Firewall
2 65 (3.01%) DNS
3 49 (2.27%) DHCP
4 43 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 42 (1.94%) VPN
6 35 (1.62%) Network Security
7 29 (1.34%) VLAN
8 28 (1.30%) HTTP
9 27 (1.25%) WAN
10 25 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (0.93%) Wireless
12 18 (0.83%) LAN
13 14 (0.65%) Broadband
14 12 (0.56%) BGP
15 10 (0.46%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.46%) VoIP
16 9 (0.42%) Ethernet
17 8 (0.37%) Internet
18 7 (0.32%) AMQP
18 7 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.04%) Power BI
2 63 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (1.16%) Redis
6 23 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 22 (1.02%) Tableau
8 20 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.83%) Big Data
9 18 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (0.79%) Power Query
10 17 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (0.74%) Metadata
12 15 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
13 14 (0.65%) GIS
13 14 (0.65%) MySQL
14 13 (0.60%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.51%) NoSQL
16 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
17 8 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 95 (4.40%) Git
2 80 (3.70%) JIRA
3 32 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.02%) GitLab
5 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.28%) Postman
8 5 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.23%) MSI
9 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.19%) Maven
9 4 (0.19%) Storybook
9 4 (0.19%) Vite
10 3 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.14%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.14%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 988 (45.74%) Social Skills
2 451 (20.88%) Finance
3 366 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.22%) Organisational Skills
5 190 (8.80%) Marketing
6 163 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 161 (7.45%) Public Sector
8 150 (6.94%) Aerospace
9 122 (5.65%) Manufacturing
10 108 (5.00%) Legal
11 99 (4.58%) Retail
12 95 (4.40%) Law
13 89 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
14 82 (3.80%) Electronics
15 69 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (3.06%) Telecoms
17 44 (2.04%) Banking
18 41 (1.90%) Military
19 33 (1.53%) Local Government
20 31 (1.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 257 (11.90%) Senior
2 186 (8.61%) Analyst
3 184 (8.52%) Developer
4 158 (7.31%) Lead
5 94 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 78 (3.61%) IT Support
7 77 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (2.78%) Security Engineer
9 59 (2.73%) Architect
10 58 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 57 (2.64%) IT Manager
12 55 (2.55%) Support Analyst
13 52 (2.41%) Consultant
14 51 (2.36%) Development Manager
15 49 (2.27%) Support Engineer
16 48 (2.22%) Administrator
16 48 (2.22%) Business Development Manager
16 48 (2.22%) Business Manager
17 46 (2.13%) Coordinator
18 45 (2.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (4.21%) Node.js
2 82 (3.80%) REST
3 62 (2.87%) Terraform
4 61 (2.82%) HTML
5 47 (2.18%) .NET
5 47 (2.18%) CSS
6 39 (1.81%) React
7 30 (1.39%) Middleware
8 28 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 27 (1.25%) RESTful
9 27 (1.25%) Vue
10 24 (1.11%) EDI
10 24 (1.11%) JSON
10 24 (1.11%) SOAP
11 20 (0.93%) Kafka
12 17 (0.79%) Spring
13 16 (0.74%) Spring Boot
13 16 (0.74%) XML
14 14 (0.65%) HTML5
14 14 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 134 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 126 (5.83%) Management Information System
3 121 (5.60%) Driving Licence
4 87 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 80 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 58 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 47 (2.18%) Social Media
8 35 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.34%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.16%) Analogue Electronics
11 23 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.02%) NHS
13 21 (0.97%) Blog
14 19 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 18 (0.83%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.79%) Data Centre
17 15 (0.69%) Security Posture
18 14 (0.65%) FMCG
18 14 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 137 (6.34%) Windows
2 84 (3.89%) Linux
3 55 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.69%) Unix
5 13 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
8 9 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.37%) Android
9 8 (0.37%) CentOS
9 8 (0.37%) Debian
9 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.093%) Rocky
11 2 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
2 646 (29.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 405 (18.75%) Agile
4 303 (14.03%) Decision-Making
5 276 (12.78%) Customer Service
6 250 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 247 (11.44%) AI
8 229 (10.60%) Analytics
9 222 (10.28%) Mentoring
10 220 (10.19%) Cyber Intelligence
11 213 (9.86%) CRM
12 206 (9.54%) CI/CD
13 202 (9.35%) Project Delivery
14 192 (8.89%) Service Delivery
15 173 (8.01%) Roadmaps
16 169 (7.82%) Software Engineering
17 168 (7.78%) Collaborative Culture
18 165 (7.64%) Validation
19 162 (7.50%) Project Management
20 154 (7.13%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 235 (10.88%) SQL
2 185 (8.56%) Python
3 117 (5.42%) JavaScript
4 80 (3.70%) Java
5 72 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 64 (2.96%) C#
7 60 (2.78%) C
8 44 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 26 (1.20%) PHP
10 24 (1.11%) C++
11 21 (0.97%) VBA
12 18 (0.83%) Embedded C
13 16 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (0.74%) MATLAB
14 15 (0.69%) ABAP
14 15 (0.69%) Bash
15 10 (0.46%) Bicep
16 7 (0.32%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.28%) R
17 6 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 322 (14.91%) Degree
2 247 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 120 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 77 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 58 (2.69%) DBS Check
6 48 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 47 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (1.81%) ACCA
9 33 (1.53%) CIMA
10 30 (1.39%) HNC
10 30 (1.39%) HND
11 23 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.02%) CISSP
13 19 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.88%) PMI Certification
14 16 (0.74%) Postgraduate
15 15 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
15 15 (0.69%) CISM
16 14 (0.65%) PMP
17 12 (0.56%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (6.53%) QA
2 110 (5.09%) Accessibility
3 106 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 73 (3.38%) GDPR
5 34 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (1.34%) PMO
8 24 (1.11%) SLA
9 22 (1.02%) GAAP
10 19 (0.88%) NIST
11 17 (0.79%) WCAG
12 12 (0.56%) TickIT
13 11 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
14 10 (0.46%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.42%) NCSC
16 8 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.28%) ISO 19650
17 6 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 86 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.04%) Docker
3 26 (1.20%) Firmware
3 26 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.23%) ClearTrust
7 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.046%) KVM
8 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 68 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (1.76%) Ansible
4 11 (0.51%) Puppet
4 11 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.32%) Grafana
5 7 (0.32%) SCCM
6 6 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.14%) BMC PATROL
8 3 (0.14%) Control-M
8 3 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.14%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.14%) Plesk
8 3 (0.14%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.093%) Nessus
9 2 (0.093%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 490 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.01%) Google
3 57 (2.64%) Salesforce
4 49 (2.27%) Oracle
5 44 (2.04%) SAP
6 36 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 35 (1.62%) VMware
8 34 (1.57%) Cisco
9 32 (1.48%) Sage
10 30 (1.39%) Databricks
11 27 (1.25%) YouTube
12 26 (1.20%) Adobe
13 20 (0.93%) HubSpot
14 15 (0.69%) Civica
14 15 (0.69%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.65%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.56%) IBM
16 12 (0.56%) iManage
17 11 (0.51%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.51%) Thales