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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 89 89
Rank change year-on-year -48 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 943 1,422 2,127
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.52% 3.41% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 3.66% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 588 737 1,563
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,600 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,742 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,886
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.91% -15.19%
75th Percentile £64,813 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £87,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £48,831
% change year-on-year -16.67% +22.87% -18.62%

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 48,744 38,824 60,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.62% 93.20% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 29,892 19,866 47,964
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,625 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 March 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 March 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 -58 287 £60,000 -7.69% 141
South East -36 192 £42,500 -32.00% 133
North of England -33 169 £45,000 -10.10% 127
Midlands -44 114 £42,500 -22.73% 64
North West -11 99 £48,750 -11.36% 71
South West -13 78 £47,500 -13.64% 56
East of England -62 65 £55,000 +7.91% 41
West Midlands -48 61 £31,000 -46.09% 37
East Midlands -23 53 £42,500 -10.53% 26
Yorkshire -49 49 £42,500 -10.53% 41
North East -13 21 £43,000 +22.86% 17
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 38 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.86%) Confluence
4 11 (1.17%) WordPress
5 10 (1.06%) IIS
6 8 (0.85%) CMS
7 7 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.42%) Apache
8 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.21%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 52 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.74%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.42%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.32%) SketchUp
7 3 (0.32%) Trello
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.21%) Simulink
9 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.11%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 209 (22.16%) Azure
2 119 (12.62%) AWS
3 100 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (8.48%) Power Platform
5 43 (4.56%) Entra ID
5 43 (4.56%) GCP
6 36 (3.82%) SaaS
7 25 (2.65%) Azure AI
7 25 (2.65%) Vertex AI
8 24 (2.55%) Amazon SageMaker
9 19 (2.01%) Serverless
10 18 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
11 14 (1.48%) GitHub
11 14 (1.48%) OpenShift
12 12 (1.27%) Google Analytics
13 11 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.83%) Firewall
2 37 (3.92%) Wireless
3 36 (3.82%) VPN
4 33 (3.50%) DNS
4 33 (3.50%) VLAN
5 29 (3.08%) TCP/IP
6 28 (2.97%) WAN
7 26 (2.76%) DHCP
8 25 (2.65%) Network Security
9 24 (2.55%) LAN
10 17 (1.80%) BGP
11 13 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 13 (1.38%) OSPF
12 12 (1.27%) Broadband
12 12 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (1.27%) Cisco Wireless
12 12 (1.27%) EIGRP
12 12 (1.27%) SNMP
12 12 (1.27%) WAAS
12 12 (1.27%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.00%) Power BI
2 23 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.44%) Tableau
3 18 (1.91%) Looker
4 14 (1.48%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (1.06%) Big Data
6 10 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.95%) MySQL
8 8 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 8 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.74%) Power Query
10 6 (0.64%) Metadata
11 5 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.42%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.42%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (4.56%) Git
2 39 (4.14%) JIRA
3 21 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.80%) GitLab
5 6 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.53%) Subversion
7 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 4 (0.42%) TestRail
7 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.21%) Postman
9 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.21%) Storybook
10 1 (0.11%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.11%) gulp
10 1 (0.11%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 443 (46.98%) Social Skills
2 240 (25.45%) Finance
3 187 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (14.00%) Marketing
5 96 (10.18%) Organisational Skills
6 78 (8.27%) Law
7 59 (6.26%) Public Sector
8 58 (6.15%) Telecoms
9 54 (5.73%) Legal
10 49 (5.20%) Aerospace
11 42 (4.45%) Retail
12 39 (4.14%) Banking
13 35 (3.71%) Military
14 32 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (2.65%) Billing
18 24 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
20 19 (2.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (11.45%) Senior
2 100 (10.60%) Analyst
3 69 (7.32%) Developer
4 64 (6.79%) Lead
5 59 (6.26%) IT Support
6 47 (4.98%) Support Engineer
7 45 (4.77%) Architect
8 37 (3.92%) Consultant
9 33 (3.50%) Business Analyst
10 32 (3.39%) Account Manager
11 31 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
12 28 (2.97%) Senior Manager
13 26 (2.76%) Technical Support
14 23 (2.44%) Data Analyst
14 23 (2.44%) IT Engineer
14 23 (2.44%) Support Technician
15 22 (2.33%) Coordinator
15 22 (2.33%) Technical Engineer
15 22 (2.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.41%) .NET
2 38 (4.03%) HTML
3 28 (2.97%) React
4 24 (2.55%) .NET Core
5 20 (2.12%) CSS
6 15 (1.59%) RESTful
7 12 (1.27%) AngularJS
7 12 (1.27%) Middleware
8 11 (1.17%) Spring
9 10 (1.06%) Node.js
9 10 (1.06%) OAuth
9 10 (1.06%) REST
9 10 (1.06%) Spring Boot
10 9 (0.95%) ASP.NET
10 9 (0.95%) JSON
10 9 (0.95%) XML
11 8 (0.85%) Kafka
11 8 (0.85%) OpenID
12 7 (0.74%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.21%) Onboarding
2 48 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
3 47 (4.98%) Management Information System
4 39 (4.14%) Driving Licence
5 34 (3.61%) Social Media
6 29 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.44%) Life Science
9 22 (2.33%) Cloud Native
10 21 (2.23%) Pharmacovigilance
11 18 (1.91%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.91%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 13 (1.38%) FMCG
14 12 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.17%) Blog
15 11 (1.17%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.95%) NHS
16 9 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 100 (10.60%) Windows
2 40 (4.24%) Linux
3 35 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.64%) Unix
8 5 (0.53%) CentOS
8 5 (0.53%) Debian
8 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.42%) Android
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
2 225 (23.86%) Agile
3 177 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 124 (13.15%) Analytics
5 104 (11.03%) AI
6 93 (9.86%) Decision-Making
7 91 (9.65%) Computer Science
8 90 (9.54%) Service Delivery
9 85 (9.01%) DevOps
10 83 (8.80%) Mentoring
11 81 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
12 78 (8.27%) Project Delivery
13 77 (8.17%) Coaching
13 77 (8.17%) Project Management
14 75 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 71 (7.53%) CRM
16 70 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
16 70 (7.42%) Collaborative Culture
17 68 (7.21%) Customer Service
18 67 (7.10%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 109 (11.56%) Python
2 85 (9.01%) SQL
3 46 (4.88%) PowerShell
4 45 (4.77%) C#
5 44 (4.67%) Java
6 37 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.80%) Bash
8 14 (1.48%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.06%) C++
10 9 (0.95%) VBA
11 8 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.64%) Go
12 6 (0.64%) Scala
12 6 (0.64%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.53%) PHP
14 4 (0.42%) Bicep
14 4 (0.42%) VB
14 4 (0.42%) VBScript
15 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 197 (20.89%) Degree
2 115 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 56 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.77%) DV Cleared
6 36 (3.82%) DBS Check
6 36 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 30 (3.18%) CISSP
8 27 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.70%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.59%) CISM
13 14 (1.48%) CCIE
13 14 (1.48%) CCNP
13 14 (1.48%) PMP
14 12 (1.27%) ACCA
14 12 (1.27%) HND
15 10 (1.06%) CIMA
15 10 (1.06%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.32%) QA
2 52 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (4.56%) GDPR
5 42 (4.45%) Accessibility
6 23 (2.44%) EU AI Act
6 23 (2.44%) PMO
7 21 (2.23%) HIPAA
7 21 (2.23%) NIST
7 21 (2.23%) PSD2
7 21 (2.23%) Solvency II
8 15 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.48%) SLA
10 10 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 8 (0.85%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.74%) GRC
13 5 (0.53%) ARP4761
13 5 (0.53%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 78 (8.27%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.76%) Docker
3 24 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 21 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.27%) ProxySG
6 6 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.53%) Firmware
7 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.11%) KVM
10 1 (0.11%) pfSense
10 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.92%) Terraform
3 25 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (2.55%) Ansible
5 11 (1.17%) Puppet
6 9 (0.95%) SCCM
7 7 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.64%) Argo
8 6 (0.64%) Grafana
9 5 (0.53%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.53%) Rancher
9 5 (0.53%) yum
10 4 (0.42%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.32%) cPanel
11 3 (0.32%) Plesk
12 2 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.21%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 193 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.04%) Google
3 35 (3.71%) Cisco
4 32 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.29%) VMware
6 21 (2.23%) SAP
6 21 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.80%) Oracle
8 13 (1.38%) Adobe
8 13 (1.38%) Infoblox
8 13 (1.38%) SolarWinds
9 12 (1.27%) Blue Coat
9 12 (1.27%) CheckPoint
9 12 (1.27%) F5
9 12 (1.27%) Motorola
10 11 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.06%) Veeam
12 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.74%) HP
12 7 (0.74%) Remedy