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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 81 92
Rank change year-on-year -37 +11 +35
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,294 1,478 2,482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.56% 3.74% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 4.03% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 782 666 1,722
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,156 £41,250 £37,042
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.00%

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 60,775 36,652 77,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.04% 92.67% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 42,765 20,021 56,403
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,288
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -58 377 £65,000 - 228
South East -26 269 £50,000 - 191
North of England +16 260 £51,772 +3.54% 186
Midlands -8 193 £43,750 -16.67% 139
North West +27 157 £47,386 -5.23% 112
West Midlands -37 97 £46,042 -18.15% 67
East Midlands +4 95 £40,000 -5.88% 72
South West -40 91 £38,738 -32.63% 84
East of England -64 76 £55,000 +57.14% 108
Yorkshire -22 74 £60,000 +2.56% 47
North East -36 29 £57,500 +64.29% 28
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 46 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.24%) WordPress
4 15 (1.16%) CMS
4 15 (1.16%) Confluence
5 9 (0.70%) SAS
6 8 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.54%) Apache
8 6 (0.46%) IIS
9 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Drupal
10 2 (0.15%) Gentran
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Luigi
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.077%) OpenStack
Applications
1 62 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.39%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.31%) InDesign
8 4 (0.31%) Simulink
9 3 (0.23%) Blender
9 3 (0.23%) Maya
9 3 (0.23%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.077%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.39%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.077%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.077%) FastStats
7 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.077%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.077%) Shopify
7 1 (0.077%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (18.47%) Azure
2 169 (13.06%) AWS
3 124 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (9.04%) Power Platform
5 66 (5.10%) GCP
6 60 (4.64%) SaaS
7 47 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.55%) Entra ID
9 36 (2.78%) Serverless
10 27 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (2.09%) GitHub
11 26 (2.01%) Google Analytics
12 25 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.47%) Figma
14 17 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.16%) Boomi
16 14 (1.08%) Power Automate
17 13 (1.00%) Snowflake
18 12 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.64%) Firewall
2 35 (2.70%) VLAN
2 35 (2.70%) VPN
3 34 (2.63%) DNS
3 34 (2.63%) Network Security
4 29 (2.24%) DHCP
5 28 (2.16%) WAN
6 24 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.85%) Wireless
7 22 (1.70%) Broadband
8 20 (1.55%) HTTP
8 20 (1.55%) LAN
9 18 (1.39%) BGP
10 14 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
10 14 (1.08%) SNMP
11 12 (0.93%) Cisco Wireless
11 12 (0.93%) EIGRP
11 12 (0.93%) OSPF
11 12 (0.93%) WAAS
11 12 (0.93%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (8.19%) Power BI
2 34 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.93%) BigQuery
3 25 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 24 (1.85%) Tableau
5 16 (1.24%) GIS
5 16 (1.24%) MySQL
6 15 (1.16%) Big Data
6 15 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
7 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.93%) Metadata
10 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.62%) Redis
12 7 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.46%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.46%) Power Query
14 5 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 61 (4.71%) Git
2 45 (3.48%) JIRA
3 32 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.16%) GitLab
5 9 (0.70%) Postman
6 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.23%) Selenium
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.077%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.077%) MSI
10 1 (0.077%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.077%) Storybook
10 1 (0.077%) TestRail
General
1 569 (43.97%) Social Skills
2 328 (25.35%) Finance
3 252 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (10.51%) Marketing
5 122 (9.43%) Organisational Skills
6 96 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (7.11%) Legal
8 85 (6.57%) Public Sector
9 76 (5.87%) Law
10 64 (4.95%) Aerospace
11 55 (4.25%) Retail
12 53 (4.10%) Telecoms
13 52 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (2.94%) Manufacturing
15 36 (2.78%) Banking
16 29 (2.24%) Electronics
16 29 (2.24%) Local Government
17 28 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (1.78%) Advertising
19 20 (1.55%) Billing
Job Titles
1 186 (14.37%) Senior
2 127 (9.81%) Analyst
3 98 (7.57%) Developer
4 85 (6.57%) Lead
5 59 (4.56%) Consultant
6 48 (3.71%) Systems Engineer
7 46 (3.55%) Support Engineer
8 44 (3.40%) Software Engineer
9 43 (3.32%) Architect
9 43 (3.32%) IT Support
10 41 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
11 38 (2.94%) Senior Manager
12 37 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 36 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (2.16%) Business Analyst
14 28 (2.16%) Senior Developer
15 23 (1.78%) Financial Controller
15 23 (1.78%) Technical Manager
16 22 (1.70%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (1.70%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.17%) Node.js
2 51 (3.94%) REST
3 46 (3.55%) .NET
4 38 (2.94%) React
5 31 (2.40%) HTML
6 28 (2.16%) JSON
7 26 (2.01%) XML
8 25 (1.93%) .NET Core
9 24 (1.85%) CSS
10 20 (1.55%) Vue
11 17 (1.31%) EDI
11 17 (1.31%) SOAP
12 16 (1.24%) Middleware
13 15 (1.16%) Next.js
14 14 (1.08%) OAuth
15 13 (1.00%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.00%) AWS CDK
15 13 (1.00%) RESTful
16 9 (0.70%) OpenID
16 9 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (5.72%) Onboarding
2 64 (4.95%) Management Information System
3 58 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 46 (3.55%) Driving Licence
6 36 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (2.78%) Social Media
7 34 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 22 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 22 (1.70%) Blog
9 22 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.16%) NHS
13 14 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 13 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.93%) EPoS
16 11 (0.85%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 113 (8.73%) Windows
2 59 (4.56%) Linux
3 43 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.62%) CentOS
7 7 (0.54%) Android
7 7 (0.54%) Debian
7 7 (0.54%) Unix
8 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.23%) VMS
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.077%) Rocky
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (34.08%) Problem-Solving
2 306 (23.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 277 (21.41%) Agile
4 184 (14.22%) Decision-Making
5 159 (12.29%) Analytics
6 158 (12.21%) Mentoring
7 149 (11.51%) Roadmaps
8 144 (11.13%) AI
9 138 (10.66%) Service Delivery
10 129 (9.97%) CI/CD
11 116 (8.96%) DevOps
12 115 (8.89%) Validation
13 114 (8.81%) Customer Service
14 112 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 109 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
16 107 (8.27%) Computer Science
17 103 (7.96%) Project Management
18 99 (7.65%) CRM
19 95 (7.34%) Coaching
20 93 (7.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 162 (12.52%) SQL
2 152 (11.75%) Python
3 58 (4.48%) C#
4 56 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.94%) Java
6 43 (3.32%) TypeScript
7 40 (3.09%) PowerShell
8 20 (1.55%) C
9 19 (1.47%) C++
10 16 (1.24%) VBA
11 15 (1.16%) PHP
12 14 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.00%) Bash
14 12 (0.93%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.77%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.70%) Bicep
16 9 (0.70%) VB
17 5 (0.39%) ABAP
17 5 (0.39%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 231 (17.85%) Degree
2 124 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 54 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.79%) DBS Check
5 48 (3.71%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.17%) ACCA
7 37 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.78%) CISSP
9 35 (2.70%) CIMA
10 32 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (2.01%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.78%) PMI Certification
13 20 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (1.55%) PMP
14 18 (1.39%) CCNP
15 15 (1.16%) HND
16 14 (1.08%) CCIE
16 14 (1.08%) CISM
17 13 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.57%) QA
2 80 (6.18%) Data Quality
3 65 (5.02%) Accessibility
4 39 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.94%) PMO
6 31 (2.40%) GDPR
7 23 (1.78%) GAAP
7 23 (1.78%) NIST
8 21 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.93%) TickIT
10 10 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.77%) SLA
11 9 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
12 8 (0.62%) WCAG
13 7 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.54%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.54%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.39%) Def Stans
System Software
1 58 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.40%) Docker
3 22 (1.70%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.00%) Firmware
6 12 (0.93%) ProxySG
7 10 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.39%) ClearTrust
10 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) vSphere
12 1 (0.077%) XenApp
12 1 (0.077%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.79%) Terraform
3 30 (2.32%) Ansible
4 19 (1.47%) SCCM
5 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.62%) Puppet
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.31%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.31%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.23%) Argo
10 3 (0.23%) Grafana
10 3 (0.23%) Kibana
10 3 (0.23%) Plesk
10 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.15%) Rancher
11 2 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 272 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.25%) Google
3 45 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 33 (2.55%) Cisco
5 31 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 24 (1.85%) VMware
7 19 (1.47%) Adobe
8 18 (1.39%) Oracle
8 18 (1.39%) Remedy
9 17 (1.31%) SAP
10 15 (1.16%) Databricks
11 13 (1.00%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.00%) SolarWinds
12 12 (0.93%) Blue Coat
12 12 (0.93%) CheckPoint
12 12 (0.93%) F5
12 12 (0.93%) Infoblox
12 12 (0.93%) Motorola
13 11 (0.85%) HubSpot
14 10 (0.77%) Pardot