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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 90 91
Rank change year-on-year -43 +1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 939 1,483 1,681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.74% 3.11% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.42% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 590 752 1,178
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,850 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,198 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,213 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £97,446 £91,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £59,738 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.49% +25.76% -24.00%

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 43,473 43,343 47,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.77% 91.03% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 26,126 21,134 37,387
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -42 275 £60,000 -4.00% 118
South East -48 171 £36,500 -41.60% 158
North of England -27 168 £42,500 -15.00% 95
Midlands -18 131 £41,000 -24.77% 78
North West -8 107 £43,750 -12.50% 43
South West +4 86 £45,750 -12.86% 53
West Midlands -12 85 £30,000 -45.45% 46
East of England -23 80 £50,000 -1.90% 48
East Midlands -14 46 £42,500 -15.00% 32
Yorkshire -48 39 £42,500 -15.00% 39
North East 0 22 £29,000 -27.50% 14
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 32 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.66%) Confluence
4 12 (1.28%) WordPress
5 7 (0.75%) CMS
6 6 (0.64%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.64%) IIS
7 4 (0.43%) Apache
7 4 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 74 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.85%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (0.53%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.43%) SketchUp
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.21%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Trello
8 2 (0.21%) Windchill
9 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
2 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.11%) assyst
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 176 (18.74%) Azure
2 95 (10.12%) AWS
3 90 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 39 (4.15%) Entra ID
6 32 (3.41%) GCP
7 27 (2.88%) SaaS
8 25 (2.66%) Azure AI
9 24 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
10 21 (2.24%) Vertex AI
11 18 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.38%) GitHub
13 13 (1.38%) OpenShift
13 13 (1.38%) Serverless
14 11 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (0.96%) Google Analytics
16 9 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 9 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.58%) Firewall
2 34 (3.62%) Wireless
3 31 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 30 (3.19%) VLAN
5 29 (3.09%) DNS
6 27 (2.88%) LAN
7 25 (2.66%) VPN
7 25 (2.66%) WAN
8 23 (2.45%) DHCP
9 17 (1.81%) Network Security
10 14 (1.49%) Broadband
11 11 (1.17%) BGP
12 10 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.96%) OSPF
13 9 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
14 8 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.85%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (0.85%) WAAS
14 8 (0.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.86%) Power BI
2 26 (2.77%) Tableau
3 18 (1.92%) Looker
4 17 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.28%) Big Data
6 11 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (0.96%) Power Query
7 9 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 8 (0.85%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.53%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.53%) Metadata
11 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.43%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 33 (3.51%) JIRA
2 31 (3.30%) Git
3 14 (1.49%) GitLab
3 14 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.43%) Subversion
5 4 (0.43%) TestRail
5 4 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.21%) Storybook
8 1 (0.11%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.11%) gulp
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
8 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 471 (50.16%) Social Skills
2 226 (24.07%) Finance
3 180 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (16.61%) Marketing
5 93 (9.90%) Organisational Skills
6 91 (9.69%) Law
7 63 (6.71%) Telecoms
8 56 (5.96%) Aerospace
9 53 (5.64%) Public Sector
10 44 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (4.69%) Retail
11 39 (4.15%) Banking
11 39 (4.15%) Military
12 36 (3.83%) Legal
13 34 (3.62%) Billing
13 34 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 28 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (2.88%) Manufacturing
16 23 (2.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 114 (12.14%) Analyst
2 79 (8.41%) Lead
3 78 (8.31%) Senior
4 65 (6.92%) IT Support
5 64 (6.82%) Developer
6 45 (4.79%) Business Analyst
7 39 (4.15%) Support Engineer
8 37 (3.94%) Architect
9 36 (3.83%) Systems Engineer
10 30 (3.19%) Digital Analyst
11 29 (3.09%) Consultant
12 27 (2.88%) Administrator
12 27 (2.88%) Coordinator
13 26 (2.77%) Junior
14 25 (2.66%) Digital Business Analyst
15 23 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.24%) Data Analyst
16 21 (2.24%) IT Engineer
16 21 (2.24%) Technical Support
17 20 (2.13%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.54%) .NET
2 43 (4.58%) HTML
3 21 (2.24%) React
4 18 (1.92%) .NET Core
5 17 (1.81%) RESTful
6 16 (1.70%) CSS
7 13 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 13 (1.38%) Middleware
8 9 (0.96%) Node.js
8 9 (0.96%) Spring
8 9 (0.96%) Spring Boot
9 8 (0.85%) Kafka
10 7 (0.75%) ASP.NET
10 7 (0.75%) REST
11 6 (0.64%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.64%) OAuth
11 6 (0.64%) PySpark
12 5 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (0.53%) Django
12 5 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.37%) Onboarding
2 64 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (4.47%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.62%) Driving Licence
4 34 (3.62%) Social Media
5 23 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.34%) Life Science
7 21 (2.24%) Pharmacovigilance
8 20 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.92%) FMCG
10 16 (1.70%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 10 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.96%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.85%) Hedge funds
14 8 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (9.69%) Windows
2 41 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 32 (3.41%) Linux
4 12 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.53%) CentOS
7 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.43%) Debian
8 4 (0.43%) Unix
8 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.32%) AIX
9 3 (0.32%) Android
9 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.11%) Rocky
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
2 209 (22.26%) Agile
3 174 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 117 (12.46%) Analytics
5 96 (10.22%) Project Management
6 86 (9.16%) CRM
7 82 (8.73%) Coaching
7 82 (8.73%) Decision-Making
8 81 (8.63%) AI
8 81 (8.63%) Service Delivery
9 80 (8.52%) Computer Science
9 80 (8.52%) Project Delivery
10 76 (8.09%) Customer Service
11 74 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
12 73 (7.77%) DevOps
13 70 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
14 69 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (7.24%) B2B
16 67 (7.14%) Process Improvement
17 66 (7.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 87 (9.27%) SQL
2 78 (8.31%) Python
3 48 (5.11%) PowerShell
4 41 (4.37%) C#
5 38 (4.05%) Java
6 29 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.70%) Bash
8 8 (0.85%) C++
8 8 (0.85%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.85%) VBA
9 6 (0.64%) VB.NET
10 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.53%) Scala
11 4 (0.43%) Bicep
11 4 (0.43%) Go
12 3 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.32%) PHP
12 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.21%) R
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 228 (24.28%) Degree
2 98 (10.44%) Security Cleared
3 50 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.05%) Master's Degree
6 37 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.83%) DBS Check
8 25 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.66%) CISSP
9 20 (2.13%) PMI Certification
10 19 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.92%) PMP
12 14 (1.49%) HND
13 11 (1.17%) CISM
13 11 (1.17%) HNC
14 10 (1.06%) CCIE
14 10 (1.06%) CCNP
15 9 (0.96%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.96%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (8.31%) QA
2 51 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 48 (5.11%) GDPR
4 47 (5.01%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.56%) PMO
7 23 (2.45%) EU AI Act
8 21 (2.24%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.24%) PSD2
8 21 (2.24%) Solvency II
9 20 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (1.81%) NIST
11 12 (1.28%) SLA
12 10 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.96%) GRC
14 8 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 7 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
17 5 (0.53%) ARP4761
17 5 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 70 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 19 (2.02%) Docker
5 8 (0.85%) ProxySG
6 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.53%) Firmware
7 5 (0.53%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) pfSense
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.51%) Terraform
3 31 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.92%) Ansible
5 13 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (1.06%) Puppet
8 8 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.64%) Grafana
10 4 (0.43%) Argo
10 4 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.43%) Rancher
10 4 (0.43%) yum
11 3 (0.32%) cPanel
11 3 (0.32%) Netcool
11 3 (0.32%) Plesk
11 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.21%) Nagios
12 2 (0.21%) Nessus
12 2 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 186 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.47%) Google
3 30 (3.19%) Cisco
3 30 (3.19%) VMware
4 27 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 25 (2.66%) SAP
6 19 (2.02%) Oracle
6 19 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.17%) Adobe
7 11 (1.17%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.17%) SolarWinds
8 10 (1.06%) BT
8 10 (1.06%) Guidewire
8 10 (1.06%) HubSpot
9 9 (0.96%) Infoblox
9 9 (0.96%) Veeam
10 8 (0.85%) F5
10 8 (0.85%) Motorola
10 8 (0.85%) SonicWALL
10 8 (0.85%) WatchGuard