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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 85 93
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 +37
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,407 1,527 2,292
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.61% 3.52% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 3.89% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 854 704 1,570
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £69,875
90th Percentile £81,750 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -13.04%

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 64,779 39,218 72,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.95% 90.32% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 45,743 22,382 52,059
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -48 386 £65,000 - 313
South East -9 300 £48,000 +4.35% 171
North of England +17 273 £51,696 +3.39% 144
Midlands -11 219 £43,750 -12.50% 112
North West +19 170 £45,497 -9.01% 82
South West -43 115 £38,738 -41.63% 97
West Midlands -38 114 £45,000 -15.89% 69
East Midlands +14 104 £40,000 -5.88% 43
East of England -67 76 £55,000 +57.14% 61
Yorkshire -13 73 £60,425 +3.29% 33
North East -38 30 £57,500 +64.29% 30
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 59 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.21%) WordPress
4 14 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.92%) CMS
5 13 (0.92%) Confluence
6 9 (0.64%) SAS
7 7 (0.50%) Apache
8 5 (0.36%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Drupal
10 2 (0.14%) Gentran
10 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.14%) Luigi
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.071%) Appian
11 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 71 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.36%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.36%) InDesign
7 5 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.28%) Simulink
9 3 (0.21%) Blender
9 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.21%) Maya
9 3 (0.21%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.14%) Trello
11 1 (0.071%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.63%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.36%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.071%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.071%) FastStats
7 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.071%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.071%) Shopify
7 1 (0.071%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 250 (17.77%) Azure
2 190 (13.50%) AWS
3 151 (10.73%) Microsoft 365
4 132 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 77 (5.47%) SaaS
6 73 (5.19%) GCP
7 51 (3.62%) Entra ID
8 49 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (2.99%) Serverless
10 29 (2.06%) GitHub
10 29 (2.06%) Google Analytics
11 27 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.42%) OCI
14 19 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.21%) Figma
15 17 (1.21%) Snowflake
16 15 (1.07%) Boomi
17 14 (1.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.97%) Firewall
2 52 (3.70%) DNS
3 42 (2.99%) VPN
4 39 (2.77%) DHCP
4 39 (2.77%) Network Security
5 36 (2.56%) VLAN
6 34 (2.42%) WAN
7 33 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.71%) LAN
9 22 (1.56%) Broadband
9 22 (1.56%) HTTP
9 22 (1.56%) Wireless
10 21 (1.49%) BGP
11 17 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.78%) IPsec
12 11 (0.78%) SNMP
13 10 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (0.71%) Internet
14 9 (0.64%) VoIP
15 8 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (8.32%) Power BI
2 43 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.92%) BigQuery
4 26 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (1.85%) Tableau
5 21 (1.49%) Big Data
5 21 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 19 (1.35%) MySQL
7 18 (1.28%) GIS
8 17 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.14%) Metadata
10 15 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
12 13 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.85%) Hadoop
13 12 (0.85%) Redis
14 10 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.43%) HBase
16 6 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (4.55%) Git
2 47 (3.34%) JIRA
3 34 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.14%) GitLab
5 9 (0.64%) Postman
6 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.21%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.21%) MSI
8 3 (0.21%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.14%) MSTest
9 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.071%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.071%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.071%) Visual Studio
General
1 630 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 370 (26.30%) Finance
3 266 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (10.59%) Marketing
5 128 (9.10%) Organisational Skills
6 100 (7.11%) Legal
7 97 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (6.54%) Public Sector
9 87 (6.18%) Aerospace
10 78 (5.54%) Law
11 57 (4.05%) Retail
12 54 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (3.62%) Telecoms
14 47 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (2.99%) Manufacturing
16 36 (2.56%) Banking
17 33 (2.35%) Electronics
18 28 (1.99%) Advertising
18 28 (1.99%) Local Government
19 21 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 206 (14.64%) Senior
2 144 (10.23%) Analyst
3 116 (8.24%) Developer
4 100 (7.11%) Lead
5 63 (4.48%) Consultant
6 52 (3.70%) IT Support
6 52 (3.70%) Software Engineer
7 49 (3.48%) Architect
8 47 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 46 (3.27%) Support Engineer
10 45 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
11 42 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
12 41 (2.91%) Senior Manager
13 37 (2.63%) IT Manager
14 33 (2.35%) Business Analyst
15 32 (2.27%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.20%) IT Analyst
17 28 (1.99%) Cloud Engineer
18 27 (1.92%) Development Manager
18 27 (1.92%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (5.05%) Node.js
2 62 (4.41%) REST
3 43 (3.06%) .NET
4 42 (2.99%) React
5 40 (2.84%) HTML
6 30 (2.13%) CSS
7 28 (1.99%) JSON
8 27 (1.92%) Vue
9 26 (1.85%) XML
10 21 (1.49%) SOAP
11 20 (1.42%) .NET Core
11 20 (1.42%) Middleware
12 18 (1.28%) RESTful
13 16 (1.14%) EDI
13 16 (1.14%) Next.js
13 16 (1.14%) OAuth
14 14 (1.00%) AngularJS
15 13 (0.92%) AWS CDK
16 12 (0.85%) Kafka
16 12 (0.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 89 (6.33%) Onboarding
2 74 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 66 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 58 (4.12%) Driving Licence
5 53 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 33 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 32 (2.27%) Social Media
8 29 (2.06%) Data Centre
9 27 (1.92%) Blog
10 22 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.42%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.21%) NHS
13 16 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.00%) EPoS
15 12 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 119 (8.46%) Windows
2 79 (5.61%) Linux
3 50 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.64%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.64%) Unix
6 8 (0.57%) CentOS
7 7 (0.50%) Debian
8 6 (0.43%) Android
9 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (34.61%) Problem-Solving
2 378 (26.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 321 (22.81%) Agile
4 206 (14.64%) Decision-Making
5 175 (12.44%) Analytics
6 168 (11.94%) Roadmaps
7 165 (11.73%) Mentoring
8 161 (11.44%) AI
9 154 (10.95%) CI/CD
10 150 (10.66%) Service Delivery
11 132 (9.38%) Customer Service
12 119 (8.46%) Validation
13 118 (8.39%) Project Management
14 117 (8.32%) DevOps
14 117 (8.32%) Project Delivery
15 114 (8.10%) Collaborative Culture
16 113 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 110 (7.82%) Computer Science
18 108 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
19 107 (7.60%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 188 (13.36%) SQL
2 169 (12.01%) Python
3 71 (5.05%) Java
4 70 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 62 (4.41%) C#
6 56 (3.98%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 30 (2.13%) C
9 24 (1.71%) PHP
10 21 (1.49%) VBA
11 19 (1.35%) C++
12 16 (1.14%) Bash
13 14 (1.00%) Embedded C
13 14 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.85%) ABAP
15 10 (0.71%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.64%) VB
17 7 (0.50%) Bicep
18 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 251 (17.84%) Degree
2 151 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 64 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 57 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.20%) ACCA
6 40 (2.84%) DBS Check
7 37 (2.63%) CIMA
7 37 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.49%) CISSP
9 31 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.56%) PMI Certification
12 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (1.21%) PMP
15 16 (1.14%) CCNP
15 16 (1.14%) CISM
16 15 (1.07%) HND
17 11 (0.78%) CEH
17 11 (0.78%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.33%) QA
2 78 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 71 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.42%) PMO
6 30 (2.13%) GDPR
7 28 (1.99%) GAAP
8 25 (1.78%) NIST
9 20 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (1.00%) SLA
11 12 (0.85%) TickIT
12 10 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
13 9 (0.64%) WCAG
14 8 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.50%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.36%) Def Stans
System Software
1 65 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.35%) Docker
3 26 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.21%) Firmware
5 15 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.57%) ProxySG
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.36%) ClearTrust
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.14%) vSphere
12 1 (0.071%) XenApp
12 1 (0.071%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 47 (3.34%) Terraform
3 33 (2.35%) Ansible
4 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.35%) SCCM
6 9 (0.64%) Puppet
7 8 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.28%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.28%) Grafana
10 4 (0.28%) ServiceCenter
11 3 (0.21%) Argo
11 3 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.21%) Kibana
11 3 (0.21%) Plesk
11 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 310 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.62%) Google
3 42 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 37 (2.63%) Cisco
5 35 (2.49%) Oracle
6 31 (2.20%) SAP
7 27 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.78%) VMware
9 19 (1.35%) Adobe
10 18 (1.28%) Remedy
11 17 (1.21%) Databricks
12 15 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.00%) IBM
13 14 (1.00%) iManage
14 12 (0.85%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.85%) SolarWinds
15 11 (0.78%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.78%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.71%) HP
17 9 (0.64%) Pardot