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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 80 91
Rank change year-on-year -42 +11 +33
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,281 1,476 2,490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 3.75% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 4.05% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 773 659 1,731
10th Percentile £30,035 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,818 £41,250 £37,169
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £88,750 £86,250
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 60,140 36,455 77,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.96% 92.71% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 42,197 19,854 56,054
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -50 374 £65,000 - 194
South East -30 261 £50,000 -1.48% 137
North of England +20 258 £53,200 +6.40% 150
Midlands -1 194 £42,500 -19.05% 107
North West +39 154 £47,500 -5.00% 99
West Midlands -40 98 £45,000 -18.18% 54
East Midlands +4 95 £40,000 -5.88% 53
South West -45 90 £38,738 -32.63% 84
Yorkshire -21 74 £60,000 +2.56% 37
East of England -66 73 £55,000 +57.14% 43
North East -27 30 £57,500 +64.29% 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 44 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.25%) WordPress
4 15 (1.17%) CMS
5 14 (1.09%) Confluence
6 9 (0.70%) SAS
7 7 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.47%) Apache
8 6 (0.47%) IIS
9 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.16%) Drupal
10 2 (0.16%) Gentran
10 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.39%) Fusion 360
8 4 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.31%) Simulink
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.23%) Blender
9 3 (0.23%) InDesign
9 3 (0.23%) Maya
9 3 (0.23%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.16%) Trello
11 1 (0.078%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.25%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.39%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.078%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.078%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.078%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.078%) Shopify
7 1 (0.078%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 237 (18.50%) Azure
2 171 (13.35%) AWS
3 120 (9.37%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 63 (4.92%) GCP
6 58 (4.53%) SaaS
7 46 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (3.59%) Entra ID
8 35 (2.73%) Serverless
9 29 (2.26%) GitHub
10 26 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (1.95%) Google Analytics
12 24 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.41%) Figma
14 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.17%) Boomi
16 13 (1.01%) Power Automate
17 12 (0.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 12 (0.94%) Snowflake
18 11 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.78%) Firewall
2 37 (2.89%) Network Security
3 36 (2.81%) VLAN
4 35 (2.73%) VPN
5 34 (2.65%) DNS
6 31 (2.42%) WAN
7 28 (2.19%) DHCP
8 26 (2.03%) Wireless
9 24 (1.87%) TCP/IP
10 23 (1.80%) LAN
11 20 (1.56%) BGP
11 20 (1.56%) Broadband
11 20 (1.56%) HTTP
12 16 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
12 16 (1.25%) SNMP
13 14 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (1.09%) Cisco Wireless
13 14 (1.09%) EIGRP
13 14 (1.09%) WAAS
13 14 (1.09%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (8.04%) Power BI
2 32 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 24 (1.87%) Tableau
4 22 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 16 (1.25%) GIS
5 16 (1.25%) MySQL
6 15 (1.17%) Metadata
6 15 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.09%) Big Data
7 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.94%) Semantic Layer
10 11 (0.86%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.55%) Redis
12 6 (0.47%) Power Query
13 5 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.39%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.39%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 61 (4.76%) Git
2 44 (3.43%) JIRA
3 30 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.25%) GitLab
5 9 (0.70%) Postman
6 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.23%) Selenium
8 3 (0.23%) Subversion
9 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.16%) MSTest
9 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.078%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.078%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.078%) Storybook
10 1 (0.078%) TestRail
General
1 556 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 325 (25.37%) Finance
3 252 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (10.07%) Marketing
5 121 (9.45%) Organisational Skills
6 96 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (7.18%) Legal
8 88 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 78 (6.09%) Law
10 63 (4.92%) Aerospace
11 56 (4.37%) Retail
12 53 (4.14%) Telecoms
13 52 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
14 37 (2.89%) Manufacturing
15 36 (2.81%) Banking
16 29 (2.26%) Electronics
16 29 (2.26%) Local Government
17 25 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.64%) Advertising
18 21 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 180 (14.05%) Senior
2 119 (9.29%) Analyst
3 95 (7.42%) Developer
4 85 (6.64%) Lead
5 59 (4.61%) Consultant
6 48 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
7 45 (3.51%) Support Engineer
8 44 (3.43%) Architect
9 43 (3.36%) Software Engineer
10 41 (3.20%) IT Support
11 40 (3.12%) Delivery Manager
12 36 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 36 (2.81%) Senior Manager
13 35 (2.73%) IT Manager
14 27 (2.11%) Senior Developer
15 26 (2.03%) Business Analyst
16 23 (1.80%) Network Engineer
16 23 (1.80%) Technical Manager
17 22 (1.72%) Financial Controller
17 22 (1.72%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.90%) Node.js
2 49 (3.83%) REST
3 45 (3.51%) .NET
4 37 (2.89%) React
5 29 (2.26%) HTML
6 28 (2.19%) JSON
7 26 (2.03%) XML
8 24 (1.87%) .NET Core
9 23 (1.80%) CSS
10 19 (1.48%) Vue
11 18 (1.41%) EDI
12 17 (1.33%) Middleware
12 17 (1.33%) SOAP
13 15 (1.17%) Next.js
14 14 (1.09%) OAuth
15 13 (1.01%) AWS CDK
16 12 (0.94%) AngularJS
16 12 (0.94%) RESTful
17 9 (0.70%) OpenID
17 9 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (5.62%) Onboarding
2 64 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 59 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 44 (3.43%) Driving Licence
6 35 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.65%) Social Media
8 27 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.56%) Blog
13 16 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 15 (1.17%) NHS
15 14 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 12 (0.94%) EPoS
17 11 (0.86%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 108 (8.43%) Windows
2 60 (4.68%) Linux
3 41 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.55%) Android
6 7 (0.55%) CentOS
6 7 (0.55%) Unix
7 6 (0.47%) Debian
8 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.23%) VMS
9 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.078%) Rocky
11 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (34.27%) Problem-Solving
2 298 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 275 (21.47%) Agile
4 181 (14.13%) Decision-Making
5 159 (12.41%) Analytics
6 157 (12.26%) Mentoring
7 146 (11.40%) Roadmaps
8 141 (11.01%) AI
9 136 (10.62%) Service Delivery
10 126 (9.84%) CI/CD
11 119 (9.29%) DevOps
12 113 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 111 (8.67%) Validation
14 110 (8.59%) Customer Service
15 109 (8.51%) Computer Science
16 106 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
17 100 (7.81%) Coaching
18 98 (7.65%) Project Management
19 97 (7.57%) CRM
20 96 (7.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 156 (12.18%) Python
2 154 (12.02%) SQL
3 57 (4.45%) C#
4 52 (4.06%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.98%) Java
6 41 (3.20%) TypeScript
7 39 (3.04%) PowerShell
8 20 (1.56%) C
9 19 (1.48%) C++
10 15 (1.17%) PHP
11 14 (1.09%) Bash
11 14 (1.09%) VBA
12 13 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.94%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.78%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.70%) VB
16 8 (0.62%) Bicep
17 7 (0.55%) Scala
18 5 (0.39%) Embedded C++
18 5 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 231 (18.03%) Degree
2 123 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 53 (4.14%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.83%) DBS Check
5 46 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.20%) ACCA
7 38 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.89%) CISSP
9 35 (2.73%) CIMA
10 32 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.95%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.80%) PMI Certification
13 22 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (1.56%) PMP
16 19 (1.48%) CCNP
17 16 (1.25%) CCIE
18 15 (1.17%) HND
19 14 (1.09%) CISM
20 12 (0.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.56%) QA
2 80 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 40 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (3.12%) PMO
5 31 (2.42%) GDPR
6 23 (1.80%) NIST
7 22 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (1.72%) GAAP
8 12 (0.94%) SLA
8 12 (0.94%) TickIT
9 10 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 9 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.55%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.55%) WCAG
12 5 (0.39%) Def Stans
System Software
1 57 (4.45%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.34%) Docker
3 21 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.09%) ProxySG
5 13 (1.01%) Firmware
5 13 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.31%) ClearTrust
8 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.16%) vSphere
10 1 (0.078%) XenApp
10 1 (0.078%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 52 (4.06%) Terraform
3 29 (2.26%) Ansible
4 19 (1.48%) SCCM
5 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.55%) Puppet
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.31%) Argo
9 4 (0.31%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.31%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.23%) Grafana
10 3 (0.23%) Kibana
10 3 (0.23%) Plesk
10 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.23%) Rancher
10 3 (0.23%) yum
11 2 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 265 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.14%) Google
3 45 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 34 (2.65%) Cisco
5 32 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 23 (1.80%) VMware
7 19 (1.48%) Adobe
8 18 (1.41%) Remedy
9 17 (1.33%) SAP
10 15 (1.17%) Databricks
10 15 (1.17%) Oracle
10 15 (1.17%) SolarWinds
11 14 (1.09%) Blue Coat
11 14 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 14 (1.09%) F5
11 14 (1.09%) Infoblox
11 14 (1.09%) Motorola
12 12 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 10 (0.78%) iManage