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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 86 92
Rank change year-on-year -35 +6 +34
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,391 1,524 2,335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.60% 3.54% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 3.90% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 843 700 1,606
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £28,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,840 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £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 64,229 39,036 74,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.64% 82.57%
Number of salaries quoted 45,346 22,191 53,359
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £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 9 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 9 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 - 226
South East -18 295 £50,000 +8.70% 151
North of England +17 267 £51,619 +3.24% 126
Midlands -10 218 £43,750 -15.68% 100
North West +27 164 £45,497 -9.01% 70
West Midlands -37 112 £45,000 -18.18% 57
South West -43 112 £38,738 -41.63% 55
East Midlands +20 105 £40,000 -5.88% 43
East of England -68 76 £55,000 +57.14% 56
Yorkshire -13 73 £60,425 +3.29% 30
North East -32 30 £57,500 +64.29% 27
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 58 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.22%) WordPress
4 13 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.93%) CMS
4 13 (0.93%) Confluence
5 9 (0.65%) SAS
6 7 (0.50%) Apache
7 5 (0.36%) IIS
8 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.14%) Drupal
9 2 (0.14%) Gentran
9 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) Luigi
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.072%) Appian
10 1 (0.072%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
Applications
1 70 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.65%) 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 (0.29%) Simulink
9 3 (0.22%) Blender
9 3 (0.22%) Maya
9 3 (0.22%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.14%) Trello
11 1 (0.072%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) 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 (0.072%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.072%) FastStats
7 1 (0.072%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.072%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.072%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 252 (18.12%) Azure
2 188 (13.52%) AWS
3 150 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
4 131 (9.42%) Power Platform
5 75 (5.39%) SaaS
6 72 (5.18%) GCP
7 51 (3.67%) Entra ID
8 49 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.95%) Serverless
10 29 (2.08%) GitHub
10 29 (2.08%) Google Analytics
11 27 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (1.29%) OCI
14 18 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.22%) Figma
15 17 (1.22%) Snowflake
16 15 (1.08%) Boomi
17 13 (0.93%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 86 (6.18%) Firewall
2 51 (3.67%) DNS
3 43 (3.09%) VPN
4 41 (2.95%) Network Security
5 39 (2.80%) DHCP
6 38 (2.73%) VLAN
7 36 (2.59%) WAN
8 33 (2.37%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.87%) LAN
10 24 (1.73%) Wireless
11 22 (1.58%) BGP
11 22 (1.58%) Broadband
12 21 (1.51%) HTTP
13 17 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.93%) SNMP
15 12 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (0.72%) Internet
16 10 (0.72%) WAAS
16 10 (0.72%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (8.41%) Power BI
2 43 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.94%) BigQuery
4 26 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (1.87%) Tableau
5 20 (1.44%) Big Data
5 20 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.29%) MySQL
7 17 (1.22%) GIS
7 17 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.01%) Metadata
8 14 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.86%) Redis
11 11 (0.79%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.50%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (4.60%) Git
2 48 (3.45%) JIRA
3 34 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.15%) GitLab
5 9 (0.65%) Postman
6 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.22%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.22%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.14%) MSI
9 2 (0.14%) MSTest
9 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.072%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.072%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.072%) TestRail
General
1 623 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 368 (26.46%) Finance
3 266 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (10.57%) Marketing
5 124 (8.91%) Organisational Skills
6 98 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 97 (6.97%) Legal
8 90 (6.47%) Public Sector
9 83 (5.97%) Aerospace
10 78 (5.61%) Law
11 57 (4.10%) Retail
12 53 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (3.67%) Telecoms
14 45 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (3.02%) Manufacturing
16 35 (2.52%) Banking
17 32 (2.30%) Electronics
18 28 (2.01%) Advertising
18 28 (2.01%) Local Government
19 20 (1.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 202 (14.52%) Senior
2 143 (10.28%) Analyst
3 110 (7.91%) Developer
4 98 (7.05%) Lead
5 63 (4.53%) Consultant
6 51 (3.67%) IT Support
6 51 (3.67%) Software Engineer
7 46 (3.31%) Architect
7 46 (3.31%) Support Engineer
8 45 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 45 (3.24%) Systems Engineer
9 42 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
10 41 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 37 (2.66%) IT Manager
12 33 (2.37%) Business Analyst
13 29 (2.08%) IT Analyst
13 29 (2.08%) Senior Developer
14 27 (1.94%) Business Manager
14 27 (1.94%) Development Manager
14 27 (1.94%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (5.03%) Node.js
2 60 (4.31%) REST
3 43 (3.09%) .NET
4 41 (2.95%) React
5 37 (2.66%) HTML
6 28 (2.01%) CSS
6 28 (2.01%) JSON
7 26 (1.87%) Vue
7 26 (1.87%) XML
8 21 (1.51%) SOAP
9 20 (1.44%) .NET Core
10 18 (1.29%) Middleware
11 17 (1.22%) RESTful
12 16 (1.15%) EDI
12 16 (1.15%) Next.js
12 16 (1.15%) OAuth
13 14 (1.01%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.93%) AWS CDK
15 11 (0.79%) Kafka
15 11 (0.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.18%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 65 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 56 (4.03%) Driving Licence
5 52 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 33 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 31 (2.23%) Social Media
8 30 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.94%) Blog
10 22 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.51%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.22%) NHS
14 15 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.01%) EPoS
16 13 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 118 (8.48%) Windows
2 76 (5.46%) Linux
3 50 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.58%) CentOS
6 8 (0.58%) Unix
7 7 (0.50%) Debian
8 6 (0.43%) Android
9 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (34.58%) Problem-Solving
2 366 (26.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 313 (22.50%) Agile
4 205 (14.74%) Decision-Making
5 175 (12.58%) Analytics
6 165 (11.86%) Roadmaps
7 164 (11.79%) Mentoring
8 160 (11.50%) AI
9 151 (10.86%) CI/CD
10 149 (10.71%) Service Delivery
11 129 (9.27%) Customer Service
12 121 (8.70%) Validation
13 118 (8.48%) Project Delivery
14 117 (8.41%) DevOps
15 116 (8.34%) Project Management
16 115 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 112 (8.05%) Computer Science
18 110 (7.91%) Collaborative Culture
19 109 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
20 105 (7.55%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 186 (13.37%) SQL
2 169 (12.15%) Python
3 68 (4.89%) Java
4 66 (4.74%) JavaScript
5 61 (4.39%) C#
6 54 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.02%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.01%) C
9 22 (1.58%) PHP
10 21 (1.51%) VBA
11 19 (1.37%) C++
12 16 (1.15%) Bash
13 14 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.93%) Embedded C
15 12 (0.86%) ABAP
16 10 (0.72%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.65%) VB
18 7 (0.50%) Bicep
19 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 5 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 251 (18.04%) Degree
2 144 (10.35%) Security Cleared
3 60 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.24%) ACCA
6 40 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.88%) DBS Check
7 37 (2.66%) CIMA
8 35 (2.52%) CISSP
9 31 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (2.01%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.51%) PMI Certification
12 20 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.29%) CCNP
14 17 (1.22%) PMP
15 16 (1.15%) CISM
16 15 (1.08%) HND
17 12 (0.86%) CCIE
18 11 (0.79%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.47%) QA
2 79 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.82%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (2.59%) PMO
6 30 (2.16%) GDPR
7 28 (2.01%) GAAP
8 25 (1.80%) NIST
9 20 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (1.01%) SLA
11 12 (0.86%) TickIT
12 9 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
13 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 8 (0.58%) WCAG
14 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.50%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.50%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.36%) Def Stans
System Software
1 65 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.37%) Docker
3 26 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.15%) Firmware
5 14 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
7 10 (0.72%) ProxySG
8 6 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.36%) ClearTrust
10 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.14%) vSphere
12 1 (0.072%) XenApp
12 1 (0.072%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.45%) Terraform
3 33 (2.37%) Ansible
4 20 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.37%) SCCM
6 9 (0.65%) Puppet
7 8 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.29%) Grafana
9 4 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.22%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 306 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.60%) Google
3 43 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 38 (2.73%) Cisco
5 32 (2.30%) Oracle
6 30 (2.16%) SAP
7 29 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.73%) VMware
9 19 (1.37%) Adobe
10 18 (1.29%) Remedy
11 17 (1.22%) Databricks
12 15 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.01%) iManage
13 14 (1.01%) SolarWinds
14 13 (0.93%) IBM
15 12 (0.86%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.86%) HubSpot
16 11 (0.79%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.72%) CheckPoint
17 10 (0.72%) Motorola