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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 90 101
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +22
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,765 1,471 1,734
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.82% 3.37% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.80% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 736 948
10th Percentile £28,399 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,225
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.06% -10.59%
75th Percentile £69,501 £68,750 £74,782
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%

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 71,345 38,684 57,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.38% 88.66% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 50,773 22,445 35,770
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -40 421 £65,000 - 1,135
North of England +51 373 £47,500 - 495
South East -10 352 £48,000 +4.35% 310
Midlands -11 263 £40,000 -5.88% 175
North West +48 225 £49,250 +9.44% 349
South West -8 216 £60,000 +9.09% 321
West Midlands -28 152 £43,371 -14.54% 119
East of England -41 112 £47,500 +26.67% 137
East Midlands +15 110 £31,000 -27.06% 56
Yorkshire +15 101 £42,500 -27.35% 108
North East -30 47 £57,500 +98.28% 44
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 80 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.19%) Confluence
4 15 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.68%) CMS
5 12 (0.68%) WordPress
6 9 (0.51%) SAS
7 8 (0.45%) Apache
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.11%) Drupal
9 2 (0.11%) Gentran
9 2 (0.11%) IIS
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) Luigi
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.057%) GeoServer
Applications
1 105 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.62%) Revit
5 10 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.40%) InDesign
6 7 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.40%) Simulink
7 5 (0.28%) Fusion 360
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.23%) CapCut
8 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.17%) Blender
9 3 (0.17%) Maya
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 27 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.34%) Exchequer
5 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.17%) Shopify
6 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.11%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.057%) FastStats
8 1 (0.057%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.057%) Primavera
8 1 (0.057%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.057%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 260 (14.73%) Azure
2 188 (10.65%) AWS
3 178 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
4 153 (8.67%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.76%) SaaS
6 64 (3.63%) GCP
7 61 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 38 (2.15%) Serverless
10 35 (1.98%) GitHub
11 29 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (1.53%) Google Analytics
13 26 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
14 23 (1.30%) Power Automate
15 21 (1.19%) OCI
15 21 (1.19%) OneDrive
16 20 (1.13%) Snowflake
17 19 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
18 16 (0.91%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.19%) Firewall
2 51 (2.89%) DNS
3 38 (2.15%) Network Security
3 38 (2.15%) VPN
4 37 (2.10%) DHCP
5 35 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.64%) WAN
7 27 (1.53%) HTTP
7 27 (1.53%) VLAN
8 22 (1.25%) LAN
9 20 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.13%) Wireless
10 14 (0.79%) BGP
10 14 (0.79%) Broadband
11 11 (0.62%) VoIP
12 9 (0.51%) Internet
13 7 (0.40%) SNMP
14 6 (0.34%) IPsec
14 6 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (7.48%) Power BI
2 58 (3.29%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 25 (1.42%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (1.36%) Tableau
6 23 (1.30%) Big Data
7 20 (1.13%) Redis
8 19 (1.08%) Metadata
9 17 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.91%) GIS
11 15 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
12 14 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.74%) MySQL
14 11 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.62%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.62%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.62%) Power Query
15 9 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (4.76%) Git
2 66 (3.74%) JIRA
3 32 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.91%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Postman
6 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.28%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.28%) MSI
9 4 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Storybook
10 3 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.17%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.11%) MSTest
11 2 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.11%) Selenium
11 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
General
1 792 (44.87%) Social Skills
2 398 (22.55%) Finance
3 314 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (10.08%) Organisational Skills
5 166 (9.41%) Marketing
6 144 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (6.91%) Public Sector
8 108 (6.12%) Aerospace
9 101 (5.72%) Legal
10 80 (4.53%) Law
11 76 (4.31%) Manufacturing
12 75 (4.25%) Retail
13 73 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
14 67 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (3.00%) Electronics
16 47 (2.66%) Telecoms
17 46 (2.61%) Banking
18 29 (1.64%) Advertising
18 29 (1.64%) Local Government
19 22 (1.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 232 (13.14%) Senior
2 162 (9.18%) Developer
3 158 (8.95%) Analyst
4 140 (7.93%) Lead
5 73 (4.14%) IT Support
6 66 (3.74%) Software Engineer
7 60 (3.40%) Consultant
8 53 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (2.61%) Development Manager
11 45 (2.55%) IT Manager
12 44 (2.49%) Support Engineer
12 44 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
13 43 (2.44%) Architect
13 43 (2.44%) Business Development Manager
13 43 (2.44%) Business Manager
13 43 (2.44%) Senior Developer
14 41 (2.32%) Software Developer
15 39 (2.21%) Support Analyst
16 38 (2.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (4.76%) Node.js
2 73 (4.14%) REST
3 55 (3.12%) HTML
3 55 (3.12%) Terraform
4 50 (2.83%) .NET
5 44 (2.49%) CSS
6 35 (1.98%) React
7 31 (1.76%) Vue
8 25 (1.42%) JSON
9 24 (1.36%) RESTful
10 23 (1.30%) SOAP
11 22 (1.25%) AngularJS
12 21 (1.19%) Middleware
13 19 (1.08%) .NET Core
13 19 (1.08%) EDI
14 17 (0.96%) XML
15 16 (0.91%) .NET Framework
16 15 (0.85%) Kafka
17 14 (0.79%) OAuth
18 13 (0.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.95%) Onboarding
2 102 (5.78%) Management Information System
3 79 (4.48%) Driving Licence
4 78 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.04%) Social Media
8 32 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.36%) Blog
11 22 (1.25%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.08%) NHS
13 17 (0.96%) Analogue Electronics
13 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (0.96%) Security Posture
13 17 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.86%) Windows
2 78 (4.42%) Linux
3 49 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.74%) Unix
5 12 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
6 10 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.40%) CentOS
9 6 (0.34%) Debian
9 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.057%) Rocky
12 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (31.56%) Problem-Solving
2 522 (29.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 361 (20.45%) Agile
4 262 (14.84%) Decision-Making
5 207 (11.73%) Analytics
6 202 (11.44%) Customer Service
7 201 (11.39%) AI
8 181 (10.25%) Mentoring
9 177 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 174 (9.86%) CI/CD
11 172 (9.75%) Service Delivery
12 171 (9.69%) Roadmaps
13 169 (9.58%) CRM
14 164 (9.29%) Project Delivery
15 143 (8.10%) Project Management
16 142 (8.05%) Collaborative Culture
17 140 (7.93%) DevOps
18 132 (7.48%) Software Engineering
19 128 (7.25%) Business Development
20 127 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 212 (12.01%) SQL
2 171 (9.69%) Python
3 99 (5.61%) JavaScript
4 73 (4.14%) Java
5 68 (3.85%) C#
6 67 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 52 (2.95%) C
8 38 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.36%) PHP
10 21 (1.19%) VBA
11 19 (1.08%) C++
12 16 (0.91%) Embedded C
13 15 (0.85%) ABAP
14 13 (0.74%) Bash
14 13 (0.74%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.51%) Bicep
17 8 (0.45%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.40%) VB
19 6 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 299 (16.94%) Degree
2 197 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 87 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 50 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 45 (2.55%) ACCA
7 45 (2.55%) DBS Check
8 38 (2.15%) CIMA
9 32 (1.81%) CISSP
10 27 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.25%) HND
12 21 (1.19%) PMI Certification
13 19 (1.08%) HNC
14 18 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.02%) Postgraduate
15 17 (0.96%) CISM
16 16 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (0.91%) PMP
17 15 (0.85%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (6.46%) QA
2 95 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 91 (5.16%) Data Quality
4 57 (3.23%) GDPR
5 33 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.70%) PMO
7 28 (1.59%) GAAP
8 27 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (1.25%) NIST
9 22 (1.25%) SLA
10 18 (1.02%) WCAG
11 12 (0.68%) TickIT
12 10 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
13 9 (0.51%) NCSC
14 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.34%) PERC
16 4 (0.23%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 72 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.10%) Docker
3 22 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.13%) Firmware
5 19 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.28%) ClearTrust
8 4 (0.23%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.057%) KVM
10 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.057%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (1.87%) Ansible
4 12 (0.68%) SCCM
5 10 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.51%) Puppet
7 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.28%) Grafana
8 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.17%) BMC PATROL
9 3 (0.17%) Control-M
9 3 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.17%) Nessus
9 3 (0.17%) Plesk
9 3 (0.17%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.11%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.11%) Kibana
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 383 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 61 (3.46%) Google
3 47 (2.66%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.21%) Oracle
4 39 (2.21%) SAP
5 33 (1.87%) Cisco
6 32 (1.81%) VMware
7 31 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.59%) Adobe
9 24 (1.36%) Databricks
10 19 (1.08%) HubSpot
11 17 (0.96%) Palo Alto
12 14 (0.79%) iManage
12 14 (0.79%) YouTube
13 13 (0.74%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.68%) Sage
15 11 (0.62%) HP
15 11 (0.62%) IBM
15 11 (0.62%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.57%) Juniper