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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 86 95
Rank change year-on-year -34 +9 +32
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,361 1,502 2,389
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.58% 3.60% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.94% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 827 684 1,655
10th Percentile £29,072 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £37,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -15.25%
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% -13.28%

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 63,352 38,114 76,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.77% 91.23% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 44,748 21,402 54,898
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,898 £29,605
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,927 £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 £72,761
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% -9.09%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -46 382 £65,000 - 281
South East -17 287 £50,000 +6.95% 168
North of England +11 262 £51,696 +3.39% 148
Midlands -9 208 £42,500 -18.09% 116
North West +20 157 £46,384 -7.23% 85
South West -44 106 £38,738 -35.44% 80
West Midlands -39 104 £45,000 -18.18% 66
East Midlands +27 103 £41,250 -2.94% 50
East of England -64 78 £55,000 +57.14% 60
Yorkshire -17 73 £60,000 +2.56% 40
North East -33 32 £57,500 +79.69% 24
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 57 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.32%) WordPress
4 14 (1.03%) CMS
4 14 (1.03%) Confluence
5 11 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.66%) SAS
7 7 (0.51%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) IIS
9 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Drupal
10 2 (0.15%) Gentran
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Luigi
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.073%) Appian
11 1 (0.073%) OpenStack
Applications
1 66 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.37%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.37%) InDesign
7 5 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.29%) Simulink
9 3 (0.22%) Blender
9 3 (0.22%) Maya
9 3 (0.22%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.073%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.37%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.073%) FastStats
7 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 251 (18.44%) Azure
2 186 (13.67%) AWS
3 144 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (9.26%) Power Platform
5 73 (5.36%) GCP
6 71 (5.22%) SaaS
7 52 (3.82%) Entra ID
8 49 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.79%) Serverless
10 30 (2.20%) Google Analytics
11 27 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (1.98%) GitHub
12 24 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (1.32%) Figma
14 18 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.25%) Snowflake
16 16 (1.18%) OCI
17 15 (1.10%) Boomi
18 13 (0.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.17%) Firewall
2 46 (3.38%) DNS
3 41 (3.01%) Network Security
4 40 (2.94%) VPN
5 38 (2.79%) DHCP
5 38 (2.79%) VLAN
6 37 (2.72%) WAN
7 29 (2.13%) TCP/IP
8 28 (2.06%) LAN
9 26 (1.91%) Wireless
10 22 (1.62%) Broadband
11 21 (1.54%) BGP
11 21 (1.54%) HTTP
12 17 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (1.03%) SNMP
14 12 (0.88%) EIGRP
14 12 (0.88%) OSPF
14 12 (0.88%) WAAS
14 12 (0.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.23%) Power BI
2 40 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.98%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (1.84%) Tableau
5 18 (1.32%) Big Data
6 17 (1.25%) MySQL
6 17 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.18%) GIS
8 15 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.03%) Metadata
9 14 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
10 13 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.88%) Redis
12 9 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.37%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 61 (4.48%) Git
2 46 (3.38%) JIRA
3 34 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.18%) GitLab
5 9 (0.66%) Postman
6 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.22%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.22%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) MSI
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.073%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.073%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.073%) TestRail
General
1 606 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 360 (26.45%) Finance
3 264 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.87%) Marketing
5 122 (8.96%) Organisational Skills
6 96 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 95 (6.98%) Legal
8 90 (6.61%) Public Sector
9 78 (5.73%) Aerospace
10 77 (5.66%) Law
11 57 (4.19%) Retail
12 53 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
12 53 (3.89%) Telecoms
13 42 (3.09%) Manufacturing
14 39 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (2.65%) Banking
16 31 (2.28%) Electronics
17 29 (2.13%) Local Government
18 27 (1.98%) Advertising
19 20 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 202 (14.84%) Senior
2 141 (10.36%) Analyst
3 108 (7.94%) Developer
4 95 (6.98%) Lead
5 63 (4.63%) Consultant
6 49 (3.60%) IT Support
6 49 (3.60%) Software Engineer
7 47 (3.45%) Support Engineer
8 46 (3.38%) Architect
9 45 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
10 42 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
11 41 (3.01%) Senior Manager
12 37 (2.72%) IT Manager
13 32 (2.35%) Business Analyst
14 29 (2.13%) Senior Developer
15 28 (2.06%) Network Engineer
16 27 (1.98%) IT Analyst
17 26 (1.91%) Cloud Engineer
18 25 (1.84%) Financial Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.70%) Node.js
2 58 (4.26%) REST
3 45 (3.31%) .NET
4 40 (2.94%) React
5 37 (2.72%) HTML
6 28 (2.06%) CSS
6 28 (2.06%) JSON
7 26 (1.91%) XML
8 25 (1.84%) Vue
9 21 (1.54%) .NET Core
10 20 (1.47%) SOAP
11 18 (1.32%) Middleware
12 16 (1.18%) EDI
12 16 (1.18%) Next.js
13 15 (1.10%) OAuth
14 13 (0.96%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.96%) AWS CDK
14 13 (0.96%) RESTful
15 9 (0.66%) .NET Framework
15 9 (0.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.02%) Onboarding
2 70 (5.14%) Management Information System
3 62 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 57 (4.19%) Driving Licence
5 52 (3.82%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.50%) Social Media
7 33 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 30 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.98%) Blog
10 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.18%) NHS
14 15 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.03%) EPoS
16 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
17 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 116 (8.52%) Windows
2 70 (5.14%) Linux
3 48 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.59%) CentOS
6 8 (0.59%) Unix
7 7 (0.51%) Debian
8 6 (0.44%) Android
9 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (34.46%) Problem-Solving
2 345 (25.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 301 (22.12%) Agile
4 197 (14.47%) Decision-Making
5 172 (12.64%) Analytics
6 163 (11.98%) Mentoring
7 159 (11.68%) Roadmaps
8 156 (11.46%) AI
9 144 (10.58%) Service Delivery
10 142 (10.43%) CI/CD
11 125 (9.18%) Customer Service
12 120 (8.82%) Validation
13 119 (8.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 117 (8.60%) DevOps
15 116 (8.52%) Project Delivery
16 114 (8.38%) Project Management
17 112 (8.23%) Computer Science
18 108 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
19 103 (7.57%) CRM
20 102 (7.49%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 179 (13.15%) SQL
2 165 (12.12%) Python
3 66 (4.85%) JavaScript
4 61 (4.48%) Java
5 60 (4.41%) C#
6 52 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.09%) PowerShell
8 26 (1.91%) C
9 20 (1.47%) VBA
10 19 (1.40%) C++
10 19 (1.40%) PHP
11 15 (1.10%) Bash
12 14 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.96%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.73%) ABAP
14 10 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.66%) VB
16 8 (0.59%) Bicep
17 5 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 246 (18.07%) Degree
2 140 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 61 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.16%) ACCA
6 42 (3.09%) DBS Check
7 41 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.65%) CIMA
9 34 (2.50%) CISSP
10 31 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.54%) PMI Certification
14 20 (1.47%) CCNP
15 17 (1.25%) PMP
16 15 (1.10%) CISM
17 14 (1.03%) CCIE
17 14 (1.03%) HND
18 12 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.54%) QA
2 77 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.79%) PMO
6 29 (2.13%) GDPR
7 27 (1.98%) GAAP
8 24 (1.76%) NIST
9 19 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.96%) SLA
11 12 (0.88%) TickIT
12 9 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
13 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 8 (0.59%) WCAG
14 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.37%) Def Stans
System Software
1 64 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.35%) Docker
3 25 (1.84%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.18%) Firmware
5 14 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (0.88%) ProxySG
7 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.37%) ClearTrust
9 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
11 1 (0.073%) XenApp
11 1 (0.073%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.60%) Terraform
3 33 (2.42%) Ansible
4 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.40%) SCCM
6 9 (0.66%) Puppet
7 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.29%) Grafana
9 4 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.22%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 296 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.70%) Google
3 43 (3.16%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.87%) Cisco
5 31 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 28 (2.06%) Oracle
7 26 (1.91%) SAP
8 24 (1.76%) VMware
9 19 (1.40%) Adobe
10 18 (1.32%) Remedy
11 16 (1.18%) Databricks
12 15 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.03%) SolarWinds
14 13 (0.96%) iManage
15 12 (0.88%) Blue Coat
15 12 (0.88%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.88%) F5
15 12 (0.88%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.88%) Infoblox
15 12 (0.88%) Motorola