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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 79 92
Rank change year-on-year -59 +13 +15
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,105 1,378 2,284
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.45% 3.72% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.99% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 664 792 1,676
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £43,226 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,406 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,125 £93,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +13.00% -16.67%

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 57,594 34,512 70,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.67% 93.12% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,194 20,484 53,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,450 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -44 358 £65,000 - 149
North of England -32 219 £51,772 +3.54% 118
South East -36 218 £50,000 -14.16% 134
Midlands -66 140 £42,500 -19.05% 92
North West -8 137 £50,886 +1.77% 61
East Midlands -26 79 £42,500 -12.82% 33
South West -62 70 £47,500 -15.56% 51
Yorkshire -50 68 £53,500 +8.13% 41
West Midlands -77 61 £37,000 -32.73% 59
East of England -94 61 £55,000 +7.91% 50
North East -33 14 £55,460 +58.46% 19
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 37 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.53%) Confluence
4 13 (1.18%) WordPress
5 11 (1.00%) IIS
6 10 (0.90%) CMS
7 9 (0.81%) SAS
8 7 (0.63%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.54%) Apache
10 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.18%) Gentran
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 50 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.36%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.18%) Simulink
10 1 (0.090%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.090%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.090%) InDesign
10 1 (0.090%) SmartSuite
10 1 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.45%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.090%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.090%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.090%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 243 (21.99%) Azure
2 153 (13.85%) AWS
3 100 (9.05%) Power Platform
4 98 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (4.89%) GCP
6 39 (3.53%) SaaS
7 36 (3.26%) Entra ID
8 33 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.90%) Serverless
10 26 (2.35%) Vertex AI
11 25 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
13 23 (2.08%) Azure AI
14 22 (1.99%) GitHub
15 21 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (1.63%) Google Analytics
17 17 (1.54%) OpenShift
18 16 (1.45%) Figma
19 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
20 14 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.70%) Firewall
2 39 (3.53%) VPN
3 35 (3.17%) Wireless
4 33 (2.99%) VLAN
5 32 (2.90%) DNS
5 32 (2.90%) Network Security
5 32 (2.90%) WAN
6 29 (2.62%) LAN
7 24 (2.17%) DHCP
7 24 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 21 (1.90%) BGP
9 18 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
10 17 (1.54%) OSPF
11 16 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (1.45%) Cisco Wireless
11 16 (1.45%) EIGRP
11 16 (1.45%) SNMP
11 16 (1.45%) WAAS
11 16 (1.45%) Wireless Security
12 11 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.05%) Power BI
2 29 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.35%) Tableau
4 19 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.36%) Big Data
6 15 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 13 (1.18%) Metadata
8 13 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.09%) GIS
10 10 (0.90%) MySQL
11 8 (0.72%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.63%) Looker
13 6 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.45%) Cloudera CDH
15 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 58 (5.25%) Git
2 53 (4.80%) JIRA
3 25 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.72%) GitLab
5 9 (0.81%) Postman
6 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.54%) Selenium
8 5 (0.45%) Subversion
9 4 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.36%) TestRail
9 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.18%) MSTest
10 2 (0.18%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.18%) Storybook
11 1 (0.090%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.090%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.090%) gulp
11 1 (0.090%) Qt Creator
11 1 (0.090%) webpack
General
1 457 (41.36%) Social Skills
2 300 (27.15%) Finance
3 217 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (12.76%) Marketing
5 109 (9.86%) Organisational Skills
6 84 (7.60%) Law
7 75 (6.79%) Public Sector
8 73 (6.61%) Legal
9 64 (5.79%) Telecoms
10 63 (5.70%) Retail
11 60 (5.43%) Aerospace
12 56 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 46 (4.16%) Banking
14 36 (3.26%) Manufacturing
15 35 (3.17%) Military
16 27 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (2.35%) Electronics
17 26 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (2.26%) Billing
19 23 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 146 (13.21%) Senior
2 103 (9.32%) Analyst
3 82 (7.42%) Lead
4 79 (7.15%) Developer
5 56 (5.07%) IT Support
6 52 (4.71%) Support Engineer
7 51 (4.62%) Consultant
8 47 (4.25%) Architect
9 38 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
10 32 (2.90%) Senior Manager
11 31 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (2.71%) Software Engineer
13 28 (2.53%) IT Manager
14 27 (2.44%) Technical Support
15 26 (2.35%) Account Manager
16 25 (2.26%) Applications Developer
17 24 (2.17%) Support Technician
18 23 (2.08%) Senior Developer
18 23 (2.08%) Technical Engineer
18 23 (2.08%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.16%) .NET
2 34 (3.08%) React
3 31 (2.81%) .NET Core
4 30 (2.71%) HTML
5 26 (2.35%) REST
6 24 (2.17%) CSS
7 21 (1.90%) JSON
8 20 (1.81%) XML
9 18 (1.63%) Middleware
9 18 (1.63%) Node.js
10 15 (1.36%) EDI
11 14 (1.27%) RESTful
12 13 (1.18%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.09%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.00%) OAuth
14 11 (1.00%) Spring
15 10 (0.90%) Spring Boot
15 10 (0.90%) Vue
16 9 (0.81%) Next.js
16 9 (0.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 61 (5.52%) Onboarding
2 50 (4.52%) Management Information System
2 50 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 42 (3.80%) Driving Licence
5 38 (3.44%) Data Centre
6 37 (3.35%) Social Media
7 28 (2.53%) Cloud Native
8 26 (2.35%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.17%) Life Science
10 21 (1.90%) Pharmacovigilance
11 18 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 14 (1.27%) Blog
14 13 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.18%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 115 (10.41%) Windows
2 58 (5.25%) Linux
3 36 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.72%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.63%) CentOS
7 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.54%) Debian
8 6 (0.54%) Unix
9 5 (0.45%) Android
9 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.36%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.27%) VMS
12 1 (0.090%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (32.04%) Problem-Solving
2 249 (22.53%) Agile
3 218 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 144 (13.03%) Analytics
5 131 (11.86%) Decision-Making
6 126 (11.40%) AI
7 117 (10.59%) Computer Science
7 117 (10.59%) DevOps
8 110 (9.95%) Mentoring
9 99 (8.96%) Service Delivery
10 97 (8.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 92 (8.33%) Project Delivery
12 90 (8.14%) CI/CD
13 87 (7.87%) Project Management
14 86 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
15 85 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
16 84 (7.60%) Customer Service
17 83 (7.51%) Validation
18 81 (7.33%) Roadmaps
19 80 (7.24%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 128 (11.58%) Python
2 107 (9.68%) SQL
3 54 (4.89%) C#
4 46 (4.16%) JavaScript
5 45 (4.07%) Java
6 42 (3.80%) PowerShell
7 21 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.63%) Bash
9 13 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.81%) C++
11 8 (0.72%) C
12 7 (0.63%) Go
12 7 (0.63%) VBA
13 6 (0.54%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.54%) PHP
13 6 (0.54%) Scala
13 6 (0.54%) VB
13 6 (0.54%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.45%) Bicep
14 5 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 222 (20.09%) Degree
2 131 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (5.25%) SC Cleared
4 54 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.62%) Master's Degree
6 45 (4.07%) DBS Check
7 37 (3.35%) CISSP
8 32 (2.90%) ACCA
9 31 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (2.53%) CIMA
11 26 (2.35%) PMI Certification
12 24 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (2.08%) PMP
14 20 (1.81%) CCNP
15 19 (1.72%) CCIE
16 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (1.36%) CISM
18 13 (1.18%) Postgraduate
19 12 (1.09%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.06%) QA
2 61 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.34%) GDPR
4 46 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 32 (2.90%) PMO
7 23 (2.08%) EU AI Act
7 23 (2.08%) NIST
8 22 (1.99%) Solvency II
9 21 (1.90%) HIPAA
9 21 (1.90%) PSD2
10 19 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (1.09%) SLA
12 11 (1.00%) GAAP
13 10 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 8 (0.72%) TickIT
15 7 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 69 (6.24%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.99%) Docker
3 20 (1.81%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.45%) ProxySG
5 12 (1.09%) Firmware
6 8 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.36%) vSphere
10 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.090%) KVM
11 1 (0.090%) pfSense
11 1 (0.090%) XenApp
11 1 (0.090%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 50 (4.52%) Terraform
3 32 (2.90%) Ansible
4 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.45%) SCCM
6 12 (1.09%) Puppet
7 7 (0.63%) Grafana
8 6 (0.54%) Argo
8 6 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.45%) Rancher
9 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.45%) yum
10 4 (0.36%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.36%) Plesk
10 4 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
11 3 (0.27%) cPanel
11 3 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 236 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.15%) Google
3 38 (3.44%) Cisco
4 37 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 31 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.71%) VMware
7 20 (1.81%) SAP
8 18 (1.63%) Adobe
9 17 (1.54%) Infoblox
10 16 (1.45%) Blue Coat
10 16 (1.45%) CheckPoint
10 16 (1.45%) F5
10 16 (1.45%) Motorola
10 16 (1.45%) SolarWinds
11 15 (1.36%) Oracle
11 15 (1.36%) Remedy
12 13 (1.18%) Red Hat
13 9 (0.81%) HP
13 9 (0.81%) Pardot
14 8 (0.72%) IBM