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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 85 103
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 +24
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,669 1,529 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.74% 3.49% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 3.92% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 732 1,007
10th Percentile £28,261 £30,050 £30,167
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,346 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% -4.10% -11.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
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 70,489 39,024 59,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.45% 89.04% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 49,966 22,592 37,637
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 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 24 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 24 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 -49 417 £65,000 - 262
North of England +44 344 £45,497 -5.21% 207
South East -14 333 £48,000 +4.35% 213
Midlands -8 268 £40,000 -5.88% 119
North West +47 212 £48,000 +6.67% 105
South West -18 181 £55,000 -8.33% 150
West Midlands -25 155 £42,500 -18.09% 70
East Midlands +17 112 £31,750 -25.29% 49
East of England -57 99 £47,500 +35.71% 89
Yorkshire +20 90 £42,500 -27.35% 74
North East -32 42 £55,000 +89.66% 34
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 77 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.08%) Confluence
4 15 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.72%) WordPress
6 11 (0.66%) CMS
7 9 (0.54%) SAS
8 8 (0.48%) Apache
9 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) Gentran
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) Luigi
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.060%) Appian
Applications
1 97 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.60%) Revit
5 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.42%) InDesign
6 7 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.42%) Simulink
7 5 (0.30%) Fusion 360
8 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.18%) Blender
9 3 (0.18%) CapCut
9 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.18%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 27 (1.62%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.060%) FastStats
8 1 (0.060%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.060%) Primavera
8 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 260 (15.58%) Azure
2 186 (11.14%) AWS
3 176 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (9.11%) Power Platform
5 85 (5.09%) SaaS
6 61 (3.65%) GCP
7 59 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 39 (2.34%) Serverless
10 35 (2.10%) GitHub
11 29 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.62%) Google Analytics
13 24 (1.44%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.32%) Snowflake
15 21 (1.26%) OCI
15 21 (1.26%) OneDrive
16 18 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (0.96%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.43%) Firewall
2 50 (3.00%) DNS
3 37 (2.22%) Network Security
3 37 (2.22%) VPN
4 36 (2.16%) DHCP
4 36 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 32 (1.92%) WAN
6 27 (1.62%) VLAN
7 26 (1.56%) HTTP
8 24 (1.44%) LAN
9 20 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.14%) Wireless
11 15 (0.90%) Broadband
12 14 (0.84%) BGP
13 12 (0.72%) VoIP
14 9 (0.54%) Internet
15 7 (0.42%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.42%) SNMP
16 6 (0.36%) IPsec
16 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.73%) Power BI
2 58 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.10%) Relational Database
4 25 (1.50%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.50%) Tableau
5 24 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (1.38%) Big Data
7 20 (1.20%) Redis
8 18 (1.08%) Metadata
9 17 (1.02%) GIS
9 17 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.90%) Semantic Layer
11 14 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.78%) MySQL
13 11 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.66%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.66%) Power Query
14 7 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 81 (4.85%) Git
2 63 (3.77%) JIRA
3 33 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.90%) GitLab
5 8 (0.48%) Postman
6 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.30%) MSI
9 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.24%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) 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%) JUnit
11 2 (0.12%) MSTest
11 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 769 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 385 (23.07%) Finance
3 304 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (10.07%) Organisational Skills
5 160 (9.59%) Marketing
6 136 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (7.31%) Public Sector
8 108 (6.47%) Aerospace
9 104 (6.23%) Legal
10 81 (4.85%) Law
11 72 (4.31%) Retail
12 71 (4.25%) Manufacturing
12 71 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (3.00%) Electronics
15 48 (2.88%) Telecoms
16 45 (2.70%) Banking
17 29 (1.74%) Advertising
18 27 (1.62%) Local Government
19 21 (1.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 220 (13.18%) Senior
2 156 (9.35%) Analyst
2 156 (9.35%) Developer
3 132 (7.91%) Lead
4 70 (4.19%) IT Support
5 60 (3.59%) Consultant
5 60 (3.59%) Software Engineer
6 45 (2.70%) Support Engineer
7 44 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (2.64%) IT Manager
8 43 (2.58%) Development Manager
9 42 (2.52%) Systems Engineer
10 41 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (2.46%) Software Developer
11 40 (2.40%) Business Development Manager
11 40 (2.40%) Business Manager
12 39 (2.34%) Senior Developer
13 38 (2.28%) Business Analyst
14 36 (2.16%) Architect
15 35 (2.10%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.15%) Node.js
2 73 (4.37%) REST
3 56 (3.36%) Terraform
4 55 (3.30%) .NET
5 54 (3.24%) HTML
6 43 (2.58%) CSS
7 34 (2.04%) React
8 33 (1.98%) Vue
9 25 (1.50%) JSON
10 24 (1.44%) RESTful
11 23 (1.38%) SOAP
12 22 (1.32%) .NET Core
12 22 (1.32%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.14%) Middleware
14 18 (1.08%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.08%) EDI
15 17 (1.02%) XML
16 15 (0.90%) ASP.NET
16 15 (0.90%) Kafka
17 14 (0.84%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 96 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 76 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 75 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.22%) Social Media
8 30 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 30 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.44%) Blog
10 23 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.08%) NHS
13 17 (1.02%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 16 (0.96%) Analogue Electronics
14 16 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
14 16 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 124 (7.43%) Windows
2 75 (4.49%) Linux
3 49 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.72%) FreeRTOS
5 11 (0.66%) Unix
6 10 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.42%) CentOS
9 6 (0.36%) Debian
9 6 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Android
11 3 (0.18%) VMS
11 3 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
2 495 (29.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 357 (21.39%) Agile
4 248 (14.86%) Decision-Making
5 205 (12.28%) Analytics
6 192 (11.50%) Customer Service
7 189 (11.32%) AI
8 173 (10.37%) Mentoring
9 171 (10.25%) CI/CD
10 170 (10.19%) Service Delivery
11 167 (10.01%) Roadmaps
12 160 (9.59%) CRM
13 157 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 143 (8.57%) Project Delivery
15 142 (8.51%) Project Management
16 137 (8.21%) DevOps
17 132 (7.91%) Collaborative Culture
18 124 (7.43%) Validation
19 123 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
20 122 (7.31%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (12.34%) SQL
2 169 (10.13%) Python
3 100 (5.99%) JavaScript
4 73 (4.37%) Java
5 70 (4.19%) C#
6 66 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 45 (2.70%) C
8 38 (2.28%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.44%) PHP
10 21 (1.26%) VBA
11 17 (1.02%) C++
12 16 (0.96%) Embedded C
13 14 (0.84%) ABAP
14 13 (0.78%) Bash
14 13 (0.78%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.54%) Bicep
17 8 (0.48%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.36%) Ruby
18 6 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 288 (17.26%) Degree
2 187 (11.20%) Security Cleared
3 84 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 50 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 46 (2.76%) ACCA
8 41 (2.46%) DBS Check
9 38 (2.28%) CIMA
10 32 (1.92%) CISSP
11 27 (1.62%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.26%) HND
12 21 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.26%) PMI Certification
13 17 (1.02%) HNC
14 16 (0.96%) CEH
14 16 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.96%) CISM
14 16 (0.96%) PMP
15 14 (0.84%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.53%) QA
2 94 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 87 (5.21%) Data Quality
4 50 (3.00%) GDPR
5 32 (1.92%) PMO
6 31 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.74%) GAAP
8 24 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (1.32%) SLA
10 21 (1.26%) NIST
11 18 (1.08%) WCAG
12 12 (0.72%) TickIT
13 10 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.54%) NCSC
15 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 5 (0.30%) PERC
18 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
System Software
1 72 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.16%) Docker
3 19 (1.14%) Firmware
3 19 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 18 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.30%) ClearTrust
7 4 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.060%) KVM
9 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.060%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (1.86%) Ansible
4 13 (0.78%) SCCM
5 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.48%) Puppet
7 6 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.24%) Grafana
9 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
10 3 (0.18%) Cisco CUCM
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%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.18%) WhatsUp Gold
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 371 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.48%) Google
3 46 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 40 (2.40%) Oracle
5 38 (2.28%) SAP
6 35 (2.10%) Cisco
7 31 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.68%) VMware
9 27 (1.62%) Adobe
10 23 (1.38%) Databricks
11 19 (1.14%) HubSpot
12 18 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.90%) iManage
14 13 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.78%) HP
15 12 (0.72%) Remedy
16 11 (0.66%) IBM
16 11 (0.66%) Sage
16 11 (0.66%) SolarWinds
17 9 (0.54%) Juniper