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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 91 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +17
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,909 1,434 1,654
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.91% 3.30% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 3.72% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 712 872
10th Percentile £28,821 £29,775 £29,775
25th Percentile £36,849 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £51,943 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -3.81% -9.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%

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 73,131 38,549 56,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.32% 88.64% 81.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52,091 22,224 32,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 10 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 10 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 -46 428 £65,000 - 1,004
North of England +65 422 £45,497 +1.10% 452
South East -3 392 £47,500 +5.56% 295
Midlands -1 272 £40,000 -5.88% 172
North West +68 262 £46,499 +3.33% 312
South West 0 243 £62,500 +8.70% 277
West Midlands -22 159 £42,500 -11.25% 122
East of England -39 125 £47,500 +26.67% 126
East Midlands +20 112 £32,500 -23.53% 50
Yorkshire +30 110 £42,500 -27.35% 106
North East -30 50 £57,500 +98.28% 39
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 83 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.20%) Confluence
4 17 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.63%) CMS
5 12 (0.63%) WordPress
6 9 (0.47%) Apache
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) IIS
9 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.10%) Drupal
10 2 (0.10%) Gentran
10 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.10%) Luigi
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.052%) Appian
Applications
1 124 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.68%) Revit
5 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.42%) InDesign
7 8 (0.42%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.42%) Simulink
8 5 (0.26%) Fusion 360
8 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.26%) Navisworks
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.21%) CapCut
9 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.16%) Blender
10 3 (0.16%) Maya
10 3 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 27 (1.41%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.31%) Exchequer
4 3 (0.16%) Shopify
4 3 (0.16%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.10%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.10%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.052%) FastStats
6 1 (0.052%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.052%) Primavera
6 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 268 (14.04%) Azure
2 187 (9.80%) AWS
3 186 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
4 159 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.50%) SaaS
6 65 (3.40%) GCP
7 62 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.10%) Serverless
10 38 (1.99%) GitHub
11 30 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (1.41%) Google Analytics
14 24 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.15%) OCI
15 22 (1.15%) OneDrive
16 20 (1.05%) Snowflake
17 19 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
18 16 (0.84%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.98%) Firewall
2 55 (2.88%) DNS
3 41 (2.15%) DHCP
4 40 (2.10%) VPN
5 38 (1.99%) Network Security
5 38 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.52%) WAN
7 28 (1.47%) HTTP
8 26 (1.36%) VLAN
9 24 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.00%) LAN
11 18 (0.94%) Wireless
12 14 (0.73%) Broadband
13 13 (0.68%) BGP
14 10 (0.52%) VoIP
15 9 (0.47%) Internet
15 9 (0.47%) SD-WAN
16 6 (0.31%) IPsec
16 6 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (7.18%) Power BI
2 61 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 36 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 22 (1.15%) Big Data
6 22 (1.15%) Redis
6 22 (1.15%) Tableau
7 19 (1.00%) Metadata
8 17 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (0.73%) GIS
10 14 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (0.68%) MySQL
11 13 (0.68%) Power Query
12 12 (0.63%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.58%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 85 (4.45%) Git
2 71 (3.72%) JIRA
3 32 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.89%) GitLab
5 8 (0.42%) Postman
6 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.26%) MSI
9 4 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.21%) Maven
9 4 (0.21%) Storybook
10 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.16%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.10%) MSTest
11 2 (0.10%) Selenium
11 2 (0.10%) Subversion
General
1 857 (44.89%) Social Skills
2 429 (22.47%) Finance
3 325 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 177 (9.27%) Marketing
6 150 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (6.65%) Public Sector
8 126 (6.60%) Aerospace
9 105 (5.50%) Legal
10 94 (4.92%) Law
11 87 (4.56%) Manufacturing
11 87 (4.56%) Retail
12 79 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
13 67 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
14 63 (3.30%) Electronics
15 62 (3.25%) Telecoms
16 46 (2.41%) Banking
17 34 (1.78%) Military
18 31 (1.62%) Local Government
19 29 (1.52%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 247 (12.94%) Senior
2 171 (8.96%) Developer
3 164 (8.59%) Analyst
4 150 (7.86%) Lead
5 79 (4.14%) Software Engineer
6 76 (3.98%) IT Support
7 61 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 61 (3.20%) Consultant
8 53 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 48 (2.51%) Support Engineer
10 47 (2.46%) Architect
10 47 (2.46%) IT Manager
10 47 (2.46%) Security Engineer
11 46 (2.41%) Development Manager
12 45 (2.36%) Senior Developer
13 44 (2.30%) Support Analyst
13 44 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
14 43 (2.25%) Business Development Manager
14 43 (2.25%) Business Manager
15 42 (2.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.61%) Node.js
2 79 (4.14%) REST
3 61 (3.20%) Terraform
4 58 (3.04%) HTML
5 49 (2.57%) .NET
6 46 (2.41%) CSS
7 36 (1.89%) React
8 31 (1.62%) Vue
9 25 (1.31%) AngularJS
9 25 (1.31%) JSON
9 25 (1.31%) RESTful
10 24 (1.26%) Middleware
10 24 (1.26%) SOAP
11 21 (1.10%) EDI
12 18 (0.94%) .NET Core
13 17 (0.89%) XML
14 16 (0.84%) .NET Framework
14 16 (0.84%) Kafka
15 15 (0.79%) OAuth
16 14 (0.73%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.02%) Onboarding
2 107 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 90 (4.71%) Driving Licence
4 82 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 77 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.62%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.10%) Social Media
8 33 (1.73%) Public Cloud
9 30 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.26%) Blog
11 22 (1.15%) Analogue Electronics
12 21 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 18 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (0.94%) NHS
14 18 (0.94%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.73%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.60%) Windows
2 83 (4.35%) Linux
3 49 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.68%) Unix
5 12 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
6 10 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.42%) CentOS
8 8 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.37%) Debian
9 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.26%) Android
11 3 (0.16%) VMS
12 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.052%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
2 565 (29.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 373 (19.54%) Agile
4 277 (14.51%) Decision-Making
5 229 (12.00%) Customer Service
6 221 (11.58%) AI
7 212 (11.11%) Analytics
8 204 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 188 (9.85%) Mentoring
10 187 (9.80%) CRM
11 183 (9.59%) CI/CD
12 178 (9.32%) Service Delivery
13 176 (9.22%) Project Delivery
13 176 (9.22%) Roadmaps
14 157 (8.22%) Cyber Intelligence
15 152 (7.96%) Collaborative Culture
16 149 (7.81%) Project Management
17 147 (7.70%) Validation
18 146 (7.65%) DevOps
18 146 (7.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 217 (11.37%) SQL
2 175 (9.17%) Python
3 104 (5.45%) JavaScript
4 75 (3.93%) Java
5 69 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 67 (3.51%) C#
7 57 (2.99%) C
8 41 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.26%) PHP
10 21 (1.10%) VBA
11 20 (1.05%) C++
12 17 (0.89%) Embedded C
13 15 (0.79%) ABAP
14 14 (0.73%) Bash
14 14 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 13 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.47%) Bicep
17 8 (0.42%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.37%) VB
19 6 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 309 (16.19%) Degree
2 218 (11.42%) Security Cleared
3 98 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.19%) DV Cleared
5 49 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 47 (2.46%) DBS Check
7 43 (2.25%) ACCA
8 37 (1.94%) CIMA
9 31 (1.62%) CISSP
10 25 (1.31%) HND
10 25 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 21 (1.10%) HNC
13 18 (0.94%) CISM
14 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.89%) PMP
15 16 (0.84%) Postgraduate
16 14 (0.73%) CEH
16 14 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.29%) QA
2 102 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 96 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.30%) GDPR
5 34 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (1.52%) PMO
8 26 (1.36%) GAAP
9 23 (1.20%) SLA
10 20 (1.05%) NIST
11 18 (0.94%) WCAG
12 12 (0.63%) TickIT
13 10 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.47%) NCSC
15 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.31%) PERC
18 5 (0.26%) ISO 9001
19 4 (0.21%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 76 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.10%) Docker
3 24 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.10%) Firmware
5 20 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.26%) ClearTrust
8 2 (0.10%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.052%) KVM
9 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (1.94%) Ansible
4 12 (0.63%) SCCM
5 10 (0.52%) Puppet
5 10 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.31%) Grafana
6 6 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.16%) BMC PATROL
8 3 (0.16%) Control-M
8 3 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.16%) Nessus
8 3 (0.16%) Plesk
8 3 (0.16%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.10%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.10%) Kibana
9 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 420 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 64 (3.35%) Google
3 54 (2.83%) Salesforce
4 42 (2.20%) Oracle
5 39 (2.04%) SAP
6 34 (1.78%) VMware
7 32 (1.68%) Cisco
8 28 (1.47%) Adobe
8 28 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 26 (1.36%) Sage
10 24 (1.26%) Databricks
11 19 (1.00%) HubSpot
11 19 (1.00%) YouTube
12 16 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.79%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.73%) iManage
15 11 (0.58%) IBM
16 10 (0.52%) HP
16 10 (0.52%) Juniper
16 10 (0.52%) Red Hat