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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 82 94
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 +35
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,331 1,481 2,401
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.57% 3.67% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 3.98% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 814 667 1,676
10th Percentile £29,036 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £41,250 £37,169
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -13.51%

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 62,329 37,196 76,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.59% 92.18% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 43,937 20,499 55,155
10th Percentile £30,806 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,926 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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
London -49 379 £65,000 - 147
South East -29 279 £50,000 +6.95% 132
North of England +17 260 £51,696 +3.39% 103
Midlands -8 202 £43,750 -16.67% 105
North West +28 156 £46,384 -7.23% 68
West Midlands -33 101 £45,000 -18.18% 55
East Midlands +15 100 £41,250 -2.94% 50
South West -32 100 £38,738 -31.13% 47
East of England -63 77 £55,000 +57.14% 53
Yorkshire -20 73 £58,750 +0.43% 19
North East -29 31 £58,750 +83.59% 16
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 56 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.28%) WordPress
4 14 (1.05%) CMS
4 14 (1.05%) Confluence
5 9 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.68%) SAS
6 6 (0.45%) Apache
6 6 (0.45%) IIS
7 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) Gentran
8 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.15%) Luigi
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.075%) Appian
9 1 (0.075%) OpenStack
Applications
1 64 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.38%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.38%) InDesign
7 5 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.30%) Simulink
9 3 (0.23%) Blender
9 3 (0.23%) Maya
9 3 (0.23%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.075%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.075%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.38%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.075%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.075%) FastStats
7 1 (0.075%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.075%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.075%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.075%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 248 (18.63%) Azure
2 181 (13.60%) AWS
3 141 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
4 124 (9.32%) Power Platform
5 69 (5.18%) GCP
6 68 (5.11%) SaaS
7 52 (3.91%) Entra ID
8 47 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (2.70%) Serverless
10 29 (2.18%) Google Analytics
11 27 (2.03%) GitHub
12 26 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.43%) Figma
15 18 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.20%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.13%) Boomi
17 15 (1.13%) Snowflake
18 13 (0.98%) OCI
19 12 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (6.24%) Firewall
2 44 (3.31%) DNS
3 41 (3.08%) Network Security
4 39 (2.93%) VPN
5 38 (2.85%) VLAN
6 37 (2.78%) DHCP
6 37 (2.78%) WAN
7 28 (2.10%) LAN
7 28 (2.10%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.95%) Wireless
9 22 (1.65%) Broadband
10 21 (1.58%) HTTP
11 20 (1.50%) BGP
12 17 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (1.05%) SNMP
14 12 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.90%) OSPF
14 12 (0.90%) WAAS
14 12 (0.90%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.41%) Power BI
2 37 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.95%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (1.88%) Tableau
5 17 (1.28%) MySQL
6 16 (1.20%) Big Data
6 16 (1.20%) GIS
7 15 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (0.98%) Metadata
9 13 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.75%) Redis
12 7 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.53%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.45%) Power Query
14 5 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 58 (4.36%) Git
2 45 (3.38%) JIRA
3 34 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.20%) GitLab
5 9 (0.68%) Postman
6 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.23%) Selenium
8 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.075%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.075%) MSI
10 1 (0.075%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.075%) TestRail
General
1 589 (44.25%) Social Skills
2 348 (26.15%) Finance
3 257 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (10.52%) Marketing
5 122 (9.17%) Organisational Skills
6 95 (7.14%) Legal
7 93 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 87 (6.54%) Public Sector
9 74 (5.56%) Law
10 70 (5.26%) Aerospace
11 56 (4.21%) Retail
12 53 (3.98%) Telecoms
13 51 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (3.01%) Manufacturing
15 37 (2.78%) Banking
16 35 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (2.25%) Electronics
18 28 (2.10%) Local Government
19 24 (1.80%) Advertising
20 20 (1.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 199 (14.95%) Senior
2 137 (10.29%) Analyst
3 102 (7.66%) Developer
4 93 (6.99%) Lead
5 62 (4.66%) Consultant
6 48 (3.61%) IT Support
6 48 (3.61%) Support Engineer
7 47 (3.53%) Software Engineer
8 46 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
9 45 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (3.31%) Architect
11 41 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
11 41 (3.08%) Senior Manager
12 35 (2.63%) IT Manager
13 29 (2.18%) Business Analyst
14 28 (2.10%) Network Engineer
14 28 (2.10%) Senior Developer
15 27 (2.03%) IT Analyst
16 25 (1.88%) Cloud Engineer
17 24 (1.80%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (4.43%) Node.js
2 53 (3.98%) REST
3 43 (3.23%) .NET
4 38 (2.85%) React
5 34 (2.55%) HTML
6 28 (2.10%) JSON
7 26 (1.95%) CSS
7 26 (1.95%) XML
8 22 (1.65%) .NET Core
8 22 (1.65%) Vue
9 19 (1.43%) SOAP
10 17 (1.28%) Middleware
11 16 (1.20%) EDI
11 16 (1.20%) Next.js
12 14 (1.05%) OAuth
13 13 (0.98%) AWS CDK
14 12 (0.90%) RESTful
15 11 (0.83%) AngularJS
16 8 (0.60%) .NET Framework
16 8 (0.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.09%) Onboarding
2 68 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 61 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 56 (4.21%) Driving Licence
5 50 (3.76%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 33 (2.48%) Social Media
8 29 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.80%) Blog
10 21 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.43%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.20%) NHS
14 14 (1.05%) EPoS
14 14 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 115 (8.64%) Windows
2 67 (5.03%) Linux
3 47 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.60%) Unix
6 7 (0.53%) CentOS
7 6 (0.45%) Android
7 6 (0.45%) Debian
8 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.30%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.23%) VMS
9 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (34.56%) Problem-Solving
2 333 (25.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 289 (21.71%) Agile
4 192 (14.43%) Decision-Making
5 166 (12.47%) Analytics
6 164 (12.32%) Mentoring
7 156 (11.72%) Roadmaps
8 151 (11.34%) AI
9 141 (10.59%) Service Delivery
10 136 (10.22%) CI/CD
11 124 (9.32%) Customer Service
12 119 (8.94%) Validation
13 115 (8.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 114 (8.56%) DevOps
15 111 (8.34%) Computer Science
16 110 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
17 109 (8.19%) Project Delivery
18 108 (8.11%) Project Management
19 103 (7.74%) CRM
20 97 (7.29%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 174 (13.07%) SQL
2 158 (11.87%) Python
3 60 (4.51%) JavaScript
4 58 (4.36%) C#
5 56 (4.21%) Java
6 49 (3.68%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.65%) C
9 19 (1.43%) C++
10 18 (1.35%) PHP
10 18 (1.35%) VBA
11 15 (1.13%) Bash
12 14 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.90%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.75%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.68%) ABAP
15 9 (0.68%) VB
16 8 (0.60%) Bicep
17 5 (0.38%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 239 (17.96%) Degree
2 131 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 57 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 50 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.31%) DBS Check
6 41 (3.08%) ACCA
7 39 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.63%) CIMA
8 35 (2.63%) CISSP
9 32 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.58%) PMI Certification
13 20 (1.50%) CCNP
14 19 (1.43%) PMP
15 15 (1.13%) CISM
15 15 (1.13%) HND
16 14 (1.05%) CCIE
17 13 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.54%) QA
2 77 (5.79%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 40 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.85%) PMO
6 30 (2.25%) GDPR
7 25 (1.88%) GAAP
8 24 (1.80%) NIST
9 20 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.90%) SLA
10 12 (0.90%) TickIT
11 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
11 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 7 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.53%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.53%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.53%) WCAG
13 5 (0.38%) Def Stans
System Software
1 64 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.40%) Docker
3 24 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.13%) Firmware
5 14 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.90%) ProxySG
7 11 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.38%) ClearTrust
10 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) vSphere
12 1 (0.075%) XenApp
12 1 (0.075%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.61%) Terraform
3 32 (2.40%) Ansible
4 20 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.43%) SCCM
6 8 (0.60%) Puppet
6 8 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.30%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.30%) Grafana
8 4 (0.30%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (0.23%) Argo
9 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.23%) Kibana
9 3 (0.23%) Plesk
9 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Rancher
10 2 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 288 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.43%) Google
3 44 (3.31%) Salesforce
4 38 (2.85%) Cisco
5 32 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 25 (1.88%) VMware
7 24 (1.80%) Oracle
7 24 (1.80%) SAP
8 19 (1.43%) Adobe
9 18 (1.35%) Remedy
10 15 (1.13%) Databricks
10 15 (1.13%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.05%) SolarWinds
12 12 (0.90%) Blue Coat
12 12 (0.90%) CheckPoint
12 12 (0.90%) F5
12 12 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.90%) iManage
12 12 (0.90%) Infoblox
12 12 (0.90%) Motorola