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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 90 102
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +22
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,705 1,479 1,728
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 3.37% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.80% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 737 955
10th Percentile £28,295 £30,000 £29,850
25th Percentile £36,375 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £73,818
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £94,000
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 71,056 38,940 57,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.41% 88.80% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50,487 22,637 35,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -39 420 £65,000 - 1,099
North of England +37 351 £45,497 -4.72% 496
South East -9 340 £47,500 +3.26% 312
Midlands -10 266 £40,500 -4.71% 178
North West +40 217 £48,500 +7.78% 327
South West -14 194 £55,000 - 321
West Midlands -28 153 £44,241 -14.10% 119
East Midlands +15 112 £31,750 -25.29% 59
East of England -42 106 £47,500 +35.71% 137
Yorkshire +10 91 £42,500 -27.35% 126
North East -38 43 £56,250 +93.97% 50
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 79 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.17%) Confluence
4 15 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.70%) CMS
5 12 (0.70%) WordPress
6 9 (0.53%) SAS
7 8 (0.47%) Apache
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) Gentran
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) Luigi
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 101 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.65%) Revit
5 10 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.41%) InDesign
6 7 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.41%) Simulink
7 5 (0.29%) Fusion 360
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.23%) CapCut
8 4 (0.23%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.18%) Blender
9 3 (0.18%) Maya
9 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.18%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 26 (1.52%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.23%) Exchequer
5 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.059%) FastStats
8 1 (0.059%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.059%) Primavera
8 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.059%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 258 (15.13%) Azure
2 188 (11.03%) AWS
3 176 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
4 153 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.93%) SaaS
6 63 (3.70%) GCP
7 60 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.35%) Serverless
10 35 (2.05%) GitHub
11 29 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.58%) Google Analytics
13 24 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 21 (1.23%) OCI
14 21 (1.23%) OneDrive
14 21 (1.23%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.28%) Firewall
2 49 (2.87%) DNS
3 38 (2.23%) Network Security
4 36 (2.11%) VPN
5 35 (2.05%) DHCP
6 34 (1.99%) TCP/IP
7 30 (1.76%) WAN
8 27 (1.58%) HTTP
8 27 (1.58%) VLAN
9 23 (1.35%) LAN
10 20 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (1.06%) Wireless
12 15 (0.88%) Broadband
13 14 (0.82%) BGP
14 11 (0.65%) VoIP
15 9 (0.53%) Internet
16 7 (0.41%) SNMP
17 6 (0.35%) IPsec
17 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.68%) Power BI
2 57 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 25 (1.47%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (1.41%) Tableau
6 23 (1.35%) Big Data
7 20 (1.17%) Redis
8 19 (1.11%) Metadata
9 17 (1.00%) GIS
9 17 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
11 14 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.76%) MySQL
13 11 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.65%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.65%) Power Query
14 7 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 82 (4.81%) Git
2 65 (3.81%) JIRA
3 33 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.88%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Postman
6 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.29%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.29%) MSI
9 4 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.23%) Storybook
10 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.18%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) MSTest
11 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 779 (45.69%) Social Skills
2 387 (22.70%) Finance
3 311 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (10.32%) Organisational Skills
5 164 (9.62%) Marketing
6 142 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (7.16%) Public Sector
8 108 (6.33%) Aerospace
9 101 (5.92%) Legal
10 80 (4.69%) Law
11 76 (4.46%) Manufacturing
12 73 (4.28%) Retail
13 72 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
14 67 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
15 52 (3.05%) Electronics
16 47 (2.76%) Telecoms
17 46 (2.70%) Banking
18 29 (1.70%) Advertising
19 27 (1.58%) Local Government
20 22 (1.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 228 (13.37%) Senior
2 159 (9.33%) Developer
3 154 (9.03%) Analyst
4 134 (7.86%) Lead
5 68 (3.99%) IT Support
6 62 (3.64%) Software Engineer
7 61 (3.58%) Consultant
8 47 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (2.64%) IT Manager
10 43 (2.52%) Development Manager
10 43 (2.52%) Support Engineer
11 42 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (2.46%) Senior Developer
11 42 (2.46%) Systems Engineer
12 41 (2.40%) Software Developer
13 40 (2.35%) Business Development Manager
13 40 (2.35%) Business Manager
14 38 (2.23%) Architect
15 37 (2.17%) Business Analyst
16 36 (2.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.04%) Node.js
2 73 (4.28%) REST
3 56 (3.28%) Terraform
4 54 (3.17%) HTML
5 53 (3.11%) .NET
6 43 (2.52%) CSS
7 34 (1.99%) React
8 31 (1.82%) Vue
9 25 (1.47%) JSON
10 24 (1.41%) RESTful
11 23 (1.35%) SOAP
12 22 (1.29%) AngularJS
13 20 (1.17%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.17%) Middleware
14 18 (1.06%) EDI
15 17 (1.00%) XML
16 16 (0.94%) .NET Framework
17 15 (0.88%) Kafka
18 14 (0.82%) OAuth
19 13 (0.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 104 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 99 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 77 (4.52%) Driving Licence
3 77 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
5 48 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 38 (2.23%) Social Media
7 32 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 30 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.41%) Blog
10 23 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.06%) NHS
13 17 (1.00%) Analogue Electronics
13 17 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 16 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 121 (7.10%) Windows
2 75 (4.40%) Linux
3 49 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.70%) FreeRTOS
5 11 (0.65%) Unix
6 9 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.41%) CentOS
9 6 (0.35%) Debian
9 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Android
11 3 (0.18%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (32.32%) Problem-Solving
2 511 (29.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 358 (21.00%) Agile
4 254 (14.90%) Decision-Making
5 206 (12.08%) Analytics
6 198 (11.61%) Customer Service
7 195 (11.44%) AI
8 177 (10.38%) Mentoring
9 173 (10.15%) CI/CD
10 170 (9.97%) Roadmaps
10 170 (9.97%) Service Delivery
11 167 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 163 (9.56%) CRM
13 155 (9.09%) Project Delivery
14 144 (8.45%) Project Management
15 140 (8.21%) Collaborative Culture
16 139 (8.15%) DevOps
17 126 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
17 126 (7.39%) Software Engineering
17 126 (7.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 209 (12.26%) SQL
2 170 (9.97%) Python
3 100 (5.87%) JavaScript
4 75 (4.40%) Java
5 69 (4.05%) C#
6 66 (3.87%) TypeScript
7 50 (2.93%) C
8 37 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.41%) PHP
10 21 (1.23%) VBA
11 19 (1.11%) C++
12 16 (0.94%) Embedded C
13 15 (0.88%) ABAP
14 13 (0.76%) MATLAB
15 12 (0.70%) Bash
16 11 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.53%) Bicep
18 8 (0.47%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.41%) VB
20 6 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 292 (17.13%) Degree
2 192 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 85 (4.99%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.16%) DV Cleared
5 50 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (2.58%) ACCA
7 44 (2.58%) DBS Check
8 37 (2.17%) CIMA
9 31 (1.82%) CISSP
10 26 (1.52%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.29%) HND
12 21 (1.23%) PMI Certification
13 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.11%) HNC
15 16 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.94%) CISM
15 16 (0.94%) PMP
16 15 (0.88%) CEH
16 15 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (6.51%) QA
2 94 (5.51%) Accessibility
3 89 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.99%) GDPR
5 32 (1.88%) PMO
6 31 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.64%) GAAP
8 24 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (1.29%) SLA
10 21 (1.23%) NIST
11 18 (1.06%) WCAG
12 12 (0.70%) TickIT
13 10 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.53%) NCSC
15 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.29%) PERC
18 4 (0.23%) Def Stans
18 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 71 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.11%) Docker
3 20 (1.17%) Firmware
3 20 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.29%) ClearTrust
7 4 (0.23%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.059%) KVM
9 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (1.82%) Ansible
4 13 (0.76%) SCCM
5 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.47%) Puppet
7 6 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.23%) Grafana
9 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 3 (0.18%) Plesk
10 3 (0.18%) WhatsUp Gold
11 2 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.12%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 376 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.52%) Google
3 47 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.29%) Oracle
5 38 (2.23%) SAP
6 34 (1.99%) Cisco
7 32 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.76%) VMware
9 28 (1.64%) Adobe
10 24 (1.41%) Databricks
11 19 (1.11%) HubSpot
12 17 (1.00%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.82%) iManage
14 13 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.70%) HP
16 11 (0.65%) IBM
16 11 (0.65%) Remedy
16 11 (0.65%) Sage
16 11 (0.65%) SolarWinds
16 11 (0.65%) YouTube