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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 93 90
Rank change year-on-year -44 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 956 1,394 2,071
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.57% 3.20% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 3.45% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 610 731 1,530
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,776 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -20.83%

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 48,128 40,388 58,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.10% 92.71% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 29,549 20,191 46,643
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -50 284 £60,000 -7.69% 151
South East -32 197 £42,500 -34.62% 141
North of England -43 169 £45,000 -10.00% 110
Midlands -44 113 £42,500 -22.73% 73
North West -21 98 £47,500 -13.64% 66
South West -18 79 £45,750 -12.86% 52
East of England -31 75 £55,000 +7.91% 29
West Midlands -39 60 £30,000 -45.45% 46
East Midlands -15 53 £42,500 -12.82% 26
Yorkshire -46 49 £42,500 -10.53% 30
North East -20 22 £47,875 +36.79% 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 39 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.82%) Confluence
4 11 (1.15%) WordPress
5 9 (0.94%) CMS
5 9 (0.94%) IIS
6 7 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.42%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.10%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 56 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.84%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.42%) SketchUp
8 3 (0.31%) Trello
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.21%) Simulink
10 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.10%) InDesign
10 1 (0.10%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.10%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 208 (21.76%) Azure
2 120 (12.55%) AWS
3 101 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 46 (4.81%) Entra ID
6 43 (4.50%) GCP
7 36 (3.77%) SaaS
8 25 (2.62%) Azure AI
9 24 (2.51%) Amazon SageMaker
9 24 (2.51%) Vertex AI
10 19 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (1.99%) Serverless
11 17 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.57%) GitHub
13 14 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.46%) OpenShift
14 13 (1.36%) Azure Machine Learning
14 13 (1.36%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (1.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.65%) Firewall
2 37 (3.87%) Wireless
3 36 (3.77%) VPN
4 34 (3.56%) DNS
5 33 (3.45%) VLAN
6 28 (2.93%) TCP/IP
7 27 (2.82%) DHCP
7 27 (2.82%) WAN
8 25 (2.62%) LAN
8 25 (2.62%) Network Security
9 18 (1.88%) BGP
10 13 (1.36%) Cisco Nexus
10 13 (1.36%) OSPF
11 12 (1.26%) Broadband
11 12 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.26%) Cisco Wireless
11 12 (1.26%) EIGRP
11 12 (1.26%) SNMP
11 12 (1.26%) WAAS
11 12 (1.26%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.11%) Power BI
2 25 (2.62%) Tableau
3 24 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.88%) Looker
5 15 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.46%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (1.15%) Big Data
8 11 (1.15%) MySQL
8 11 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 8 (0.84%) Power Query
9 8 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.63%) Metadata
11 6 (0.63%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (4.39%) Git
2 39 (4.08%) JIRA
3 21 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.78%) GitLab
5 7 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.52%) Subversion
7 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 4 (0.42%) TestRail
7 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.21%) Postman
9 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.21%) Storybook
10 1 (0.10%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.10%) gulp
10 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 460 (48.12%) Social Skills
2 239 (25.00%) Finance
3 183 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (14.44%) Marketing
5 97 (10.15%) Organisational Skills
6 81 (8.47%) Law
7 58 (6.07%) Telecoms
8 57 (5.96%) Public Sector
9 52 (5.44%) Legal
10 50 (5.23%) Aerospace
11 42 (4.39%) Retail
12 41 (4.29%) Banking
13 36 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 35 (3.66%) Military
15 31 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (2.93%) Billing
17 27 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (2.41%) Manufacturing
20 21 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (11.09%) Analyst
2 105 (10.98%) Senior
3 69 (7.22%) Developer
4 66 (6.90%) Lead
5 60 (6.28%) IT Support
6 45 (4.71%) Architect
6 45 (4.71%) Support Engineer
7 39 (4.08%) Consultant
8 37 (3.87%) Business Analyst
9 31 (3.24%) Account Manager
9 31 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (3.24%) Systems Engineer
10 28 (2.93%) Senior Manager
11 26 (2.72%) Digital Analyst
12 25 (2.62%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.51%) Coordinator
14 23 (2.41%) IT Engineer
14 23 (2.41%) Junior
14 23 (2.41%) Technical Support
15 22 (2.30%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.44%) .NET
2 43 (4.50%) HTML
3 29 (3.03%) React
4 21 (2.20%) .NET Core
5 20 (2.09%) CSS
6 16 (1.67%) RESTful
7 14 (1.46%) Middleware
8 13 (1.36%) AngularJS
9 11 (1.15%) Spring
10 10 (1.05%) Node.js
10 10 (1.05%) OAuth
10 10 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.94%) JSON
11 9 (0.94%) REST
11 9 (0.94%) XML
12 8 (0.84%) Kafka
12 8 (0.84%) OpenID
13 7 (0.73%) ASP.NET
13 7 (0.73%) Next.js
13 7 (0.73%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.43%) Onboarding
2 52 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.87%) Driving Licence
5 36 (3.77%) Social Media
6 30 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.72%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.41%) Cloud Native
8 23 (2.41%) Life Science
9 21 (2.20%) Pharmacovigilance
10 18 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.67%) FMCG
12 13 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 12 (1.26%) Blog
13 12 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.05%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.94%) NHS
15 9 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 97 (10.15%) Windows
2 40 (4.18%) Linux
3 36 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.84%) Unix
5 8 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.52%) CentOS
7 5 (0.52%) Debian
7 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.42%) Android
8 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.31%) AIX
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
2 229 (23.95%) Agile
3 179 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (13.08%) Analytics
5 102 (10.67%) AI
6 97 (10.15%) Computer Science
7 91 (9.52%) Decision-Making
8 87 (9.10%) Service Delivery
9 84 (8.79%) DevOps
10 83 (8.68%) Mentoring
11 81 (8.47%) Project Delivery
12 79 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
13 78 (8.16%) Project Management
14 77 (8.05%) Coaching
15 75 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
16 74 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 73 (7.64%) CRM
18 69 (7.22%) Customer Service
19 67 (7.01%) CI/CD
19 67 (7.01%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 105 (10.98%) Python
2 94 (9.83%) SQL
3 50 (5.23%) PowerShell
4 43 (4.50%) C#
4 43 (4.50%) Java
5 35 (3.66%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.67%) Bash
7 14 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.05%) VBA
9 9 (0.94%) C++
9 9 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.63%) Go
10 6 (0.63%) Scala
10 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
11 5 (0.52%) PHP
12 4 (0.42%) Bicep
12 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.42%) VB
12 4 (0.42%) VBScript
13 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 200 (20.92%) Degree
2 115 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 51 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 39 (4.08%) DBS Check
7 35 (3.66%) Master's Degree
8 29 (3.03%) CISSP
9 26 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.67%) PMI Certification
13 15 (1.57%) CISM
14 14 (1.46%) CCIE
14 14 (1.46%) CCNP
14 14 (1.46%) PMP
15 12 (1.26%) HND
16 10 (1.05%) CRISC
17 9 (0.94%) ACCA
17 9 (0.94%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.43%) QA
2 55 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 47 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 45 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (4.39%) GDPR
6 23 (2.41%) EU AI Act
6 23 (2.41%) PMO
7 21 (2.20%) HIPAA
7 21 (2.20%) NIST
7 21 (2.20%) PSD2
7 21 (2.20%) Solvency II
8 15 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.46%) SLA
10 9 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 8 (0.84%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.73%) GRC
13 5 (0.52%) ARP4761
13 5 (0.52%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.62%) Docker
3 24 (2.51%) Hyper-V
4 21 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.26%) ProxySG
6 6 (0.63%) Firmware
6 6 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.31%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.10%) KVM
10 1 (0.10%) pfSense
10 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.10%) XenApp
10 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.87%) Terraform
3 25 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (2.51%) Ansible
5 11 (1.15%) Puppet
6 9 (0.94%) SCCM
7 8 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.63%) Argo
9 6 (0.63%) Grafana
10 5 (0.52%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.52%) Rancher
10 5 (0.52%) yum
11 4 (0.42%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.31%) cPanel
12 3 (0.31%) Netcool
12 3 (0.31%) Plesk
13 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 190 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.07%) Google
3 35 (3.66%) Cisco
4 34 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.24%) VMware
6 22 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 19 (1.99%) SAP
8 18 (1.88%) Oracle
9 15 (1.57%) Adobe
9 15 (1.57%) SolarWinds
10 13 (1.36%) Infoblox
11 12 (1.26%) Blue Coat
11 12 (1.26%) CheckPoint
11 12 (1.26%) F5
11 12 (1.26%) Motorola
12 11 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.05%) Veeam
14 8 (0.84%) IBM
15 7 (0.73%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.73%) Zoho