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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 91 97
Rank change year-on-year -38 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 970 1,537 1,399
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.87% 3.09% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 3.42% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 616 785 954
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +8.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £48,924 £59,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.08% +18.00% -19.87%

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 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -41 278 £62,500 -0.60% 233
South East -52 172 £35,000 -41.67% 373
North of England -41 154 £42,500 -15.00% 358
Midlands -1 153 £40,000 -27.27% 275
West Midlands +4 108 £30,000 -47.83% 130
South West +17 102 £52,500 +8.25% 181
North West -13 101 £42,500 -15.00% 177
East of England -26 81 £47,500 -6.80% 215
East Midlands -15 45 £42,500 -15.00% 132
Yorkshire -48 31 £42,500 -5.56% 152
North East +2 22 £29,000 -53.88% 31
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 39 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.27%) Confluence
4 11 (1.13%) WordPress
5 5 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.52%) IIS
6 4 (0.41%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.31%) Apache
7 3 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.10%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 87 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.82%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.52%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.41%) SketchUp
7 3 (0.31%) Windchill
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.21%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Sketch
8 2 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) InDesign
9 1 (0.10%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.52%) Infor SunSystems
3 5 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.21%) C-CURE
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.10%) assyst
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (17.32%) Azure
2 95 (9.79%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (8.45%) AWS
4 68 (7.01%) Power Platform
5 48 (4.95%) Entra ID
6 27 (2.78%) Azure AI
7 25 (2.58%) SaaS
8 24 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
8 24 (2.47%) GCP
9 21 (2.16%) Vertex AI
10 18 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.44%) GitHub
12 13 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.24%) Serverless
14 10 (1.03%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.93%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.93%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.64%) Firewall
2 36 (3.71%) TCP/IP
3 33 (3.40%) Wireless
4 30 (3.09%) DNS
5 26 (2.68%) LAN
5 26 (2.68%) VLAN
6 25 (2.58%) DHCP
6 25 (2.58%) WAN
7 18 (1.86%) VPN
8 16 (1.65%) Broadband
8 16 (1.65%) Network Security
9 10 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.82%) SAN
10 8 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
11 7 (0.72%) Internet
11 7 (0.72%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.72%) VoIP
12 6 (0.62%) BGP
12 6 (0.62%) NAS
13 5 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.46%) Power BI
2 26 (2.68%) Tableau
3 19 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.86%) Looker
5 13 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.13%) Big Data
6 11 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.93%) Power Query
8 8 (0.82%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.72%) Hadoop
9 7 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.52%) Metadata
12 4 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (3.09%) JIRA
2 28 (2.89%) Git
3 13 (1.34%) GitLab
4 12 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.41%) Selenium
6 4 (0.41%) TestRail
7 3 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.31%) Subversion
8 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.21%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.21%) Storybook
9 1 (0.10%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) gulp
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 500 (51.55%) Social Skills
2 227 (23.40%) Finance
3 211 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (18.14%) Marketing
5 93 (9.59%) Law
6 79 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
7 67 (6.91%) Telecoms
8 57 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.15%) Aerospace
9 50 (5.15%) Retail
10 48 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (3.92%) Billing
12 37 (3.81%) Banking
13 36 (3.71%) Legal
14 35 (3.61%) Military
15 33 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (3.40%) Manufacturing
16 30 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 27 (2.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 112 (11.55%) Analyst
2 89 (9.18%) Lead
3 74 (7.63%) Senior
4 73 (7.53%) IT Support
5 57 (5.88%) Developer
6 48 (4.95%) Business Analyst
7 37 (3.81%) Architect
7 37 (3.81%) Support Engineer
7 37 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
8 34 (3.51%) Consultant
9 30 (3.09%) Digital Analyst
10 29 (2.99%) Coordinator
11 25 (2.58%) Administrator
11 25 (2.58%) Digital Business Analyst
11 25 (2.58%) Technical Support
12 24 (2.47%) Junior
13 23 (2.37%) Data Analyst
14 22 (2.27%) IT Engineer
15 21 (2.16%) Technical Director
16 20 (2.06%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.74%) .NET
2 40 (4.12%) HTML
3 19 (1.96%) React
4 18 (1.86%) RESTful
5 13 (1.34%) AngularJS
5 13 (1.34%) CSS
6 12 (1.24%) Middleware
7 10 (1.03%) .NET Core
8 8 (0.82%) Kafka
8 8 (0.82%) Node.js
9 7 (0.72%) Spring
9 7 (0.72%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.52%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.52%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.52%) EDI
10 5 (0.52%) REST
11 4 (0.41%) Django
11 4 (0.41%) HTML5
11 4 (0.41%) OAuth
11 4 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (10.82%) Onboarding
2 71 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (4.74%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.51%) Driving Licence
5 31 (3.20%) Social Media
6 23 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.27%) Life Science
8 21 (2.16%) Pharmacovigilance
9 19 (1.96%) FMCG
10 17 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 12 (1.24%) Cloud Native
14 11 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.13%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.82%) Client/Server
16 8 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 90 (9.28%) Windows
2 45 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 26 (2.68%) Linux
4 15 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.41%) CentOS
8 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.41%) Unix
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.31%) AIX
9 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Android
10 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
2 200 (20.62%) Agile
3 179 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (11.96%) Project Management
5 102 (10.52%) Analytics
6 94 (9.69%) Coaching
7 93 (9.59%) CRM
8 88 (9.07%) Customer Service
8 88 (9.07%) Decision-Making
9 87 (8.97%) B2B
10 82 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 79 (8.14%) Project Delivery
12 78 (8.04%) E-Commerce
12 78 (8.04%) Process Improvement
13 77 (7.94%) Service Delivery
14 76 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
15 75 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
15 75 (7.73%) Digital Marketing
16 72 (7.42%) Customer Experience
17 71 (7.32%) AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (9.38%) SQL
2 60 (6.19%) Python
3 47 (4.85%) PowerShell
4 36 (3.71%) Java
5 32 (3.30%) C#
6 25 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.65%) VBA
8 13 (1.34%) Bash
9 8 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.62%) C++
11 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.41%) Scala
12 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.31%) Go
13 3 (0.31%) PHP
14 2 (0.21%) Perl
14 2 (0.21%) R
14 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 266 (27.42%) Degree
2 83 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 48 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.23%) Master's Degree
6 30 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.89%) CISSP
7 28 (2.89%) DBS Check
8 25 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.37%) PMI Certification
10 21 (2.16%) PMP
11 16 (1.65%) ACCA
12 15 (1.55%) CIMA
12 15 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (1.34%) HND
15 12 (1.24%) MCP
16 11 (1.13%) CISM
17 10 (1.03%) HNC
17 10 (1.03%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.14%) QA
2 50 (5.15%) GDPR
3 48 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 40 (4.12%) Data Quality
5 26 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (2.37%) EU AI Act
7 22 (2.27%) PMO
8 21 (2.16%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.16%) PSD2
8 21 (2.16%) Solvency II
9 18 (1.86%) NIST
10 13 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (1.24%) SLA
12 9 (0.93%) GRC
13 8 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 7 (0.72%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.52%) ARP4761
15 5 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (7.73%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.34%) Docker
5 7 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.62%) vSphere
7 5 (0.52%) Firmware
8 4 (0.41%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) KVM
9 1 (0.10%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 38 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.78%) Terraform
4 15 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (1.13%) Ansible
7 10 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.93%) Puppet
9 6 (0.62%) Grafana
10 4 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.31%) Argo
11 3 (0.31%) cPanel
11 3 (0.31%) Netcool
11 3 (0.31%) Plesk
11 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.31%) Rancher
11 3 (0.31%) SCCM
11 3 (0.31%) yum
12 2 (0.21%) Nagios
12 2 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 190 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.33%) SAP
3 39 (4.02%) Google
4 32 (3.30%) VMware
5 30 (3.09%) Cisco
6 28 (2.89%) Oracle
7 23 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.34%) Workday
10 12 (1.24%) BT
10 12 (1.24%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.13%) Adobe
11 11 (1.13%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.13%) Reuters
11 11 (1.13%) Veeam
12 10 (1.03%) Adaptive Insights
12 10 (1.03%) SonicWALL
12 10 (1.03%) WatchGuard
13 9 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.82%) HubSpot