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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 100 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 +6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 987 1,488 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.01% 2.67% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.07% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 626 763 934
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,374 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £60,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -19.17% +22.45% -18.33%

All Process and 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 41,486 48,456 42,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.29% 87.03% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,004 25,273 32,594
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,313 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 9 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 9 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 -17 292 £61,841 -3.17% 141
Midlands +19 174 £40,000 -20.00% 74
South East -51 157 £34,500 -44.80% 150
North of England -50 143 £45,000 -10.50% 97
West Midlands +22 130 £30,000 -47.60% 52
South West +32 109 £53,750 +13.16% 45
North West -18 91 £45,000 -10.89% 56
East of England +16 86 £47,500 -20.83% 52
East Midlands +3 44 £42,500 -10.53% 22
Yorkshire -56 29 £33,250 -26.92% 23
North East +3 23 £29,000 -51.82% 18
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 48 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.03%) Confluence
4 11 (1.11%) WordPress
5 5 (0.51%) IIS
6 4 (0.41%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Moodle
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 93 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.81%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.51%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.41%) SketchUp
6 4 (0.41%) Trello
7 3 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.30%) Windchill
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
8 2 (0.20%) Simulink
8 2 (0.20%) Sketch
9 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.10%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 13 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.51%) Infor SunSystems
3 5 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.30%) C-CURE
4 3 (0.30%) Magento
4 3 (0.30%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 167 (16.92%) Azure
2 105 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (7.80%) AWS
4 70 (7.09%) Power Platform
5 54 (5.47%) Entra ID
6 27 (2.74%) Azure AI
6 27 (2.74%) SaaS
7 21 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
7 21 (2.13%) GCP
7 21 (2.13%) Vertex AI
8 19 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.22%) PowerApps
11 11 (1.11%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.01%) GitHub
12 10 (1.01%) Serverless
13 8 (0.81%) Figma
13 8 (0.81%) Google Analytics
13 8 (0.81%) OpenShift
14 6 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.66%) Firewall
2 39 (3.95%) TCP/IP
3 34 (3.44%) Wireless
4 29 (2.94%) DNS
5 25 (2.53%) DHCP
6 21 (2.13%) VLAN
7 20 (2.03%) LAN
8 18 (1.82%) Broadband
8 18 (1.82%) WAN
9 12 (1.22%) Network Security
9 12 (1.22%) VPN
10 9 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.81%) SAN
12 7 (0.71%) Internet
13 6 (0.61%) NAS
13 6 (0.61%) VoIP
14 5 (0.51%) RTP
14 5 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
15 4 (0.41%) Intranet
15 4 (0.41%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.47%) Power BI
2 23 (2.33%) Tableau
3 20 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.82%) Looker
5 16 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (0.91%) Big Data
9 8 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.71%) Power Query
10 7 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
11 6 (0.61%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.61%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.51%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (3.34%) JIRA
2 23 (2.33%) Git
3 13 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.11%) GitLab
5 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.41%) Selenium
6 4 (0.41%) TestRail
7 3 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.20%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.20%) Subversion
9 1 (0.10%) gulp
9 1 (0.10%) JUnit
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 511 (51.77%) Social Skills
2 237 (24.01%) Finance
3 222 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (20.47%) Marketing
5 95 (9.63%) Law
6 81 (8.21%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (7.29%) Telecoms
8 53 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (5.17%) Public Sector
10 50 (5.07%) Retail
11 47 (4.76%) Aerospace
12 40 (4.05%) Billing
13 39 (3.95%) Banking
14 35 (3.55%) Manufacturing
15 34 (3.44%) Legal
16 33 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 33 (3.34%) Military
17 31 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (2.94%) Electronics
19 28 (2.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 105 (10.64%) Analyst
2 97 (9.83%) Lead
3 77 (7.80%) IT Support
4 74 (7.50%) Senior
5 57 (5.78%) Developer
6 49 (4.96%) Business Analyst
7 39 (3.95%) Consultant
8 38 (3.85%) Support Engineer
9 34 (3.44%) Architect
10 33 (3.34%) Administrator
11 31 (3.14%) Coordinator
12 30 (3.04%) Digital Analyst
12 30 (3.04%) Systems Engineer
13 29 (2.94%) Technical Support
14 25 (2.53%) Digital Business Analyst
15 24 (2.43%) Technical Director
16 23 (2.33%) Junior
17 22 (2.23%) Technical Engineer
18 21 (2.13%) IT Manager
18 21 (2.13%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.15%) .NET
2 40 (4.05%) HTML
3 19 (1.93%) React
3 19 (1.93%) RESTful
4 13 (1.32%) CSS
5 12 (1.22%) Middleware
6 11 (1.11%) AngularJS
7 7 (0.71%) .NET Core
7 7 (0.71%) Kafka
7 7 (0.71%) REST
8 6 (0.61%) Spring
8 6 (0.61%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.51%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.51%) Node.js
9 5 (0.51%) Web Services
10 4 (0.41%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (0.30%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (0.30%) EDI
11 3 (0.30%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 120 (12.16%) Onboarding
2 75 (7.60%) Self-Motivation
3 50 (5.07%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 29 (2.94%) Social Media
6 22 (2.23%) Life Science
7 21 (2.13%) Pharmacovigilance
8 20 (2.03%) FMCG
9 18 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.82%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.22%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.11%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.11%) NHS
13 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 8 (0.81%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 83 (8.41%) Windows
2 45 (4.56%) Windows Server
3 23 (2.33%) Linux
4 16 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.41%) Unix
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.30%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Debian
11 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
2 205 (20.77%) Agile
3 192 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 132 (13.37%) Project Management
5 111 (11.25%) CRM
6 104 (10.54%) B2B
7 101 (10.23%) Coaching
8 100 (10.13%) Customer Service
9 99 (10.03%) Analytics
10 94 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 92 (9.32%) Digital Marketing
11 92 (9.32%) E-Commerce
12 86 (8.71%) Project Delivery
13 85 (8.61%) Decision-Making
14 84 (8.51%) Service Delivery
15 82 (8.31%) Customer Experience
16 81 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
17 80 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
18 78 (7.90%) Change Management
18 78 (7.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 89 (9.02%) SQL
2 50 (5.07%) Python
3 44 (4.46%) PowerShell
4 38 (3.85%) Java
5 31 (3.14%) C#
6 24 (2.43%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.62%) VBA
8 12 (1.22%) Bash
9 7 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.61%) C++
11 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.41%) R
12 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.30%) Go
13 3 (0.30%) PHP
14 2 (0.20%) Perl
14 2 (0.20%) Swift
15 1 (0.10%) ABAP
15 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 283 (28.67%) Degree
2 70 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 44 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.36%) Master's Degree
5 40 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.04%) CISSP
7 25 (2.53%) DBS Check
7 25 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.43%) PMI Certification
9 23 (2.33%) PMP
10 17 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.52%) ACCA
11 15 (1.52%) CIMA
11 15 (1.52%) MCP
12 14 (1.42%) HND
13 13 (1.32%) CISM
13 13 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (1.01%) MBA
15 9 (0.91%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.90%) QA
2 52 (5.27%) GDPR
3 47 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 32 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.33%) EU AI Act
7 22 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (2.13%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.13%) NIST
8 21 (2.13%) PSD2
8 21 (2.13%) Solvency II
9 18 (1.82%) PMO
10 16 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.01%) GRC
12 9 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.91%) SLA
13 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.51%) ARP4761
14 5 (0.51%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.41%) JSP 440
System Software
1 77 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.22%) Docker
5 7 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.61%) vSphere
7 4 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) KVM
8 1 (0.10%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 46 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.03%) Terraform
4 16 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (1.32%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.91%) Ansible
7 8 (0.81%) Puppet
8 6 (0.61%) Grafana
9 4 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.41%) SCCM
10 3 (0.30%) cPanel
10 3 (0.30%) Netcool
10 3 (0.30%) Plesk
10 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.20%) Argo
11 2 (0.20%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Nessus
11 2 (0.20%) Rancher
11 2 (0.20%) yum
Vendors
1 196 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.07%) SAP
3 40 (4.05%) Google
4 35 (3.55%) VMware
5 30 (3.04%) Oracle
6 28 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 27 (2.74%) Cisco
8 17 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.52%) Guidewire
10 14 (1.42%) Adobe
10 14 (1.42%) BT
10 14 (1.42%) Veeam
10 14 (1.42%) Workday
11 13 (1.32%) SonicWALL
11 13 (1.32%) WatchGuard
12 12 (1.22%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.22%) Reuters
13 10 (1.01%) Adaptive Insights
14 9 (0.91%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.81%) HubSpot