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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 69 90
Rank change year-on-year -68 +21 +22
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,209 1,561 2,408
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.46% 4.07% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 4.36% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 716 696 1,706
10th Percentile £30,087 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.00%

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 61,148 35,802 72,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.84% 93.41% 84.38%
Number of salaries quoted 40,513 19,133 54,000
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,367
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -48 368 £65,000 - 212
North of England +7 251 £53,200 +6.40% 138
South East -54 228 £52,500 -3.67% 128
Midlands -33 168 £42,500 -19.05% 97
North West +26 152 £50,000 - 78
South West -47 92 £38,738 -29.57% 52
West Midlands -60 86 £42,625 -22.50% 62
East Midlands -4 81 £42,500 -8.11% 35
Yorkshire -33 76 £60,925 +4.15% 41
East of England -89 67 £55,000 +7.91% 34
North East -31 23 £44,249 +26.42% 21
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 40 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.57%) Confluence
4 15 (1.24%) WordPress
5 14 (1.16%) CMS
6 9 (0.74%) SAS
7 7 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.50%) IIS
9 5 (0.41%) Apache
10 4 (0.33%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) Gentran
12 2 (0.17%) Luigi
12 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.083%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.083%) Jupyter
Applications
1 57 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.41%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.25%) Simulink
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Stateflow
10 1 (0.083%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.083%) Blender
10 1 (0.083%) InDesign
10 1 (0.083%) Maya
10 1 (0.083%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.41%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.083%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.083%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 229 (18.94%) Azure
2 158 (13.07%) AWS
3 112 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 107 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (4.88%) GCP
6 48 (3.97%) SaaS
7 44 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 39 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.73%) Serverless
10 30 (2.48%) GitHub
11 24 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.90%) Google Analytics
13 17 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (1.32%) Figma
15 14 (1.16%) Azure Machine Learning
15 14 (1.16%) Boomi
16 12 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (0.91%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.71%) Firewall
2 37 (3.06%) Network Security
3 36 (2.98%) VPN
4 34 (2.81%) VLAN
5 33 (2.73%) WAN
6 30 (2.48%) Wireless
7 28 (2.32%) DNS
8 25 (2.07%) LAN
9 23 (1.90%) DHCP
10 22 (1.82%) BGP
11 20 (1.65%) TCP/IP
12 18 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (1.41%) OSPF
13 17 (1.41%) SNMP
14 16 (1.32%) Broadband
14 16 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (1.32%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (1.32%) EIGRP
14 16 (1.32%) WAAS
14 16 (1.32%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (8.60%) Power BI
2 28 (2.32%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.07%) Tableau
4 23 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (1.65%) BigQuery
6 17 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.24%) GIS
7 15 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (1.16%) Big Data
8 14 (1.16%) Metadata
8 14 (1.16%) MySQL
9 11 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.50%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.33%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 63 (5.21%) Git
2 47 (3.89%) JIRA
3 27 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.32%) GitLab
5 9 (0.74%) Postman
6 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.33%) Selenium
7 4 (0.33%) Subversion
7 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.25%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.17%) MSTest
9 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.17%) Storybook
9 2 (0.17%) TestRail
10 1 (0.083%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.083%) JUnit
10 1 (0.083%) Qt Creator
General
1 503 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 314 (25.97%) Finance
3 237 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (10.59%) Marketing
5 122 (10.09%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 86 (7.11%) Public Sector
8 82 (6.78%) Legal
9 81 (6.70%) Law
10 63 (5.21%) Aerospace
11 56 (4.63%) Retail
12 53 (4.38%) Telecoms
13 37 (3.06%) Manufacturing
14 33 (2.73%) Banking
15 29 (2.40%) Electronics
15 29 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (2.07%) Military
17 21 (1.74%) Billing
17 21 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (13.98%) Senior
2 117 (9.68%) Analyst
3 92 (7.61%) Developer
4 70 (5.79%) Lead
5 49 (4.05%) Architect
6 48 (3.97%) Consultant
7 45 (3.72%) Support Engineer
7 45 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
8 40 (3.31%) IT Support
9 39 (3.23%) Software Engineer
10 37 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 34 (2.81%) IT Manager
12 33 (2.73%) Senior Manager
13 27 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
14 26 (2.15%) Senior Developer
15 24 (1.99%) Network Engineer
16 23 (1.90%) Applications Developer
16 23 (1.90%) Business Analyst
16 23 (1.90%) Technical Manager
17 21 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.22%) .NET
2 41 (3.39%) REST
3 37 (3.06%) Node.js
4 36 (2.98%) React
5 30 (2.48%) HTML
6 29 (2.40%) .NET Core
7 27 (2.23%) JSON
8 26 (2.15%) XML
9 25 (2.07%) CSS
10 20 (1.65%) EDI
11 18 (1.49%) Middleware
12 15 (1.24%) SOAP
13 14 (1.16%) Next.js
13 14 (1.16%) OAuth
13 14 (1.16%) Vue
14 13 (1.08%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.08%) RESTful
15 12 (0.99%) ASP.NET
15 12 (0.99%) AWS CDK
16 10 (0.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (5.29%) Onboarding
2 54 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 50 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 38 (3.14%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (2.98%) Driving Licence
6 36 (2.98%) Social Media
7 28 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 23 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 23 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 22 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 16 (1.32%) Blog
12 15 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.08%) NHS
14 11 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.91%) CCTV
14 11 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 106 (8.77%) Windows
2 57 (4.71%) Linux
3 39 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.91%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (0.58%) Android
5 7 (0.58%) CentOS
5 7 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.50%) Debian
6 6 (0.50%) Unix
7 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.33%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.083%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.083%) Rocky
10 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
2 267 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 258 (21.34%) Agile
4 159 (13.15%) Decision-Making
5 153 (12.66%) Analytics
6 148 (12.24%) Mentoring
7 129 (10.67%) AI
8 118 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 118 (9.76%) DevOps
8 118 (9.76%) Roadmaps
8 118 (9.76%) Service Delivery
9 111 (9.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 107 (8.85%) Computer Science
11 105 (8.68%) Validation
12 104 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
13 96 (7.94%) Customer Service
13 96 (7.94%) Project Delivery
14 94 (7.78%) CRM
15 92 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
16 89 (7.36%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 145 (11.99%) Python
2 142 (11.75%) SQL
3 58 (4.80%) C#
4 49 (4.05%) Java
4 49 (4.05%) JavaScript
5 40 (3.31%) PowerShell
6 37 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 19 (1.57%) C
8 17 (1.41%) C++
9 14 (1.16%) Bash
10 13 (1.08%) PHP
10 13 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.99%) Embedded C
12 10 (0.83%) VBA
13 9 (0.74%) VB
14 8 (0.66%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.66%) Scala
15 7 (0.58%) Bicep
16 6 (0.50%) Go
16 6 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 217 (17.95%) Degree
2 129 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 54 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.14%) DBS Check
5 48 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.31%) CISSP
6 40 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.14%) ACCA
8 33 (2.73%) CIMA
9 31 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (2.15%) PMI Certification
11 25 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.82%) PMP
14 20 (1.65%) CCNP
15 19 (1.57%) CCIE
16 15 (1.24%) CISM
17 13 (1.08%) HND
17 13 (1.08%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.29%) Data Quality
1 76 (6.29%) QA
2 52 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 46 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (2.56%) GDPR
4 31 (2.56%) PMO
5 28 (2.32%) NIST
6 27 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (1.32%) GAAP
8 12 (0.99%) TickIT
9 11 (0.91%) SLA
10 10 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.58%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.58%) WCAG
12 5 (0.41%) GRC
13 4 (0.33%) Def Stans
System Software
1 59 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.23%) Docker
3 16 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.32%) ProxySG
4 15 (1.24%) Firmware
5 13 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.25%) vSphere
9 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.083%) ClearTrust
10 1 (0.083%) XenApp
10 1 (0.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 50 (4.14%) Terraform
3 30 (2.48%) Ansible
4 19 (1.57%) SCCM
5 15 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.58%) Puppet
8 6 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.41%) Argo
10 4 (0.33%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.33%) Rancher
10 4 (0.33%) ServiceCenter
10 4 (0.33%) yum
11 3 (0.25%) Grafana
11 3 (0.25%) Kibana
11 3 (0.25%) Plesk
12 2 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 260 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.14%) Google
3 43 (3.56%) Salesforce
4 36 (2.98%) Cisco
5 33 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 22 (1.82%) VMware
7 20 (1.65%) Adobe
8 18 (1.49%) Remedy
9 17 (1.41%) Infoblox
9 17 (1.41%) SAP
9 17 (1.41%) SolarWinds
10 16 (1.32%) Blue Coat
10 16 (1.32%) CheckPoint
10 16 (1.32%) F5
10 16 (1.32%) Motorola
11 14 (1.16%) Oracle
12 12 (0.99%) Databricks
13 10 (0.83%) Pardot
14 9 (0.74%) HubSpot
14 9 (0.74%) Palo Alto