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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 86 92
Rank change year-on-year -36 +6 +35
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,400 1,536 2,297
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.60% 3.54% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.93% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 858 706 1,567
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,188 £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 £69,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £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 64,714 39,117 72,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 90.26% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 45,706 22,312 52,075
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% -8.84%

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 15 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 15 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 -50 384 £65,000 - 248
South East -20 296 £48,000 +4.35% 203
North of England +23 271 £52,136 +4.27% 190
Midlands -14 225 £45,000 -10.00% 124
North West +29 173 £46,384 -7.23% 99
West Midlands -37 120 £47,085 -11.99% 67
South West -50 110 £38,738 -41.63% 93
East Midlands +19 104 £37,720 -11.25% 57
East of England -74 75 £55,000 +57.14% 76
Yorkshire -16 68 £60,850 +4.02% 63
North East -43 30 £57,500 +64.29% 29
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 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 44 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.21%) WordPress
4 14 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.93%) CMS
6 11 (0.79%) Confluence
7 9 (0.64%) SAS
8 7 (0.50%) Apache
9 5 (0.36%) IIS
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
11 2 (0.14%) Gentran
11 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
11 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 1 (0.071%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.071%) Appian
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 73 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.79%) 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 (0.29%) 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 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.79%) 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
1 249 (17.79%) Azure
2 187 (13.36%) AWS
3 150 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 135 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 77 (5.50%) SaaS
6 70 (5.00%) GCP
7 51 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 50 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.93%) Serverless
10 31 (2.21%) GitHub
11 29 (2.07%) Google Analytics
12 27 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (1.43%) OCI
15 19 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.21%) Figma
16 17 (1.21%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.07%) Boomi
18 14 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.00%) Firewall
2 51 (3.64%) DNS
3 41 (2.93%) VPN
4 39 (2.79%) DHCP
4 39 (2.79%) Network Security
5 36 (2.57%) VLAN
6 34 (2.43%) TCP/IP
6 34 (2.43%) WAN
7 24 (1.71%) LAN
8 22 (1.57%) Broadband
8 22 (1.57%) HTTP
8 22 (1.57%) Wireless
9 21 (1.50%) BGP
10 16 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.79%) IPsec
11 11 (0.79%) SNMP
12 10 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.64%) Internet
14 8 (0.57%) EIGRP
14 8 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.57%) Power BI
2 44 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.93%) BigQuery
3 27 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 27 (1.93%) Tableau
4 21 (1.50%) Big Data
5 20 (1.43%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.29%) GIS
6 18 (1.29%) MySQL
7 17 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.14%) Metadata
9 14 (1.00%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
10 12 (0.86%) Hadoop
10 12 (0.86%) Redis
11 11 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (0.50%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 62 (4.43%) Git
2 46 (3.29%) JIRA
3 33 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.14%) GitLab
5 9 (0.64%) Postman
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.21%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.21%) MSI
7 3 (0.21%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.14%) MSTest
8 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.071%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.071%) Maven
9 1 (0.071%) Qt Creator
9 1 (0.071%) Storybook
9 1 (0.071%) Subversion
9 1 (0.071%) Visual Studio
General
1 630 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 367 (26.21%) Finance
3 269 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.71%) Marketing
5 125 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
6 101 (7.21%) Legal
7 96 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 93 (6.64%) Public Sector
9 82 (5.86%) Aerospace
10 78 (5.57%) Law
11 57 (4.07%) Retail
12 56 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (3.64%) Telecoms
14 47 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
15 41 (2.93%) Manufacturing
16 36 (2.57%) Banking
17 33 (2.36%) Electronics
18 28 (2.00%) Advertising
18 28 (2.00%) Local Government
19 21 (1.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 208 (14.86%) Senior
2 141 (10.07%) Analyst
3 115 (8.21%) Developer
4 102 (7.29%) Lead
5 63 (4.50%) Consultant
6 52 (3.71%) IT Support
7 51 (3.64%) Software Engineer
8 48 (3.43%) Architect
9 45 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (3.21%) Support Engineer
9 45 (3.21%) Systems Engineer
10 43 (3.07%) Senior Manager
11 42 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
12 38 (2.71%) IT Manager
13 33 (2.36%) Business Analyst
13 33 (2.36%) Senior Developer
14 31 (2.21%) IT Analyst
15 28 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
16 27 (1.93%) Business Manager
16 27 (1.93%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.14%) Node.js
2 62 (4.43%) REST
3 42 (3.00%) .NET
3 42 (3.00%) React
4 40 (2.86%) HTML
5 30 (2.14%) CSS
6 28 (2.00%) JSON
7 27 (1.93%) Vue
8 26 (1.86%) XML
9 21 (1.50%) SOAP
10 20 (1.43%) .NET Core
11 19 (1.36%) Middleware
11 19 (1.36%) RESTful
12 16 (1.14%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.14%) EDI
12 16 (1.14%) Next.js
12 16 (1.14%) OAuth
13 13 (0.93%) AWS CDK
14 12 (0.86%) Kafka
15 11 (0.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 75 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 67 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 58 (4.14%) Driving Licence
5 51 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 32 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 32 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (2.14%) Social Media
8 29 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 27 (1.93%) Blog
10 22 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.43%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.43%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.29%) NHS
13 15 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.00%) EPoS
15 12 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 114 (8.14%) Windows
2 75 (5.36%) Linux
3 49 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.86%) 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
8 6 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.21%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 382 (27.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 315 (22.50%) Agile
4 208 (14.86%) Decision-Making
5 176 (12.57%) Analytics
6 169 (12.07%) Roadmaps
7 165 (11.79%) Mentoring
8 162 (11.57%) AI
9 151 (10.79%) Service Delivery
10 149 (10.64%) CI/CD
11 131 (9.36%) Customer Service
12 120 (8.57%) Validation
13 119 (8.50%) Project Delivery
14 117 (8.36%) Project Management
15 115 (8.21%) Collaborative Culture
16 114 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 110 (7.86%) DevOps
18 109 (7.79%) Computer Science
18 109 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
19 107 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 187 (13.36%) SQL
2 164 (11.71%) Python
3 69 (4.93%) Java
3 69 (4.93%) JavaScript
4 60 (4.29%) C#
5 56 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 42 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 30 (2.14%) C
8 24 (1.71%) PHP
9 22 (1.57%) VBA
10 17 (1.21%) C++
11 14 (1.00%) Bash
11 14 (1.00%) Embedded C
11 14 (1.00%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.93%) ABAP
13 10 (0.71%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.64%) VB
15 7 (0.50%) Bicep
15 7 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 255 (18.21%) Degree
2 143 (10.21%) Security Cleared
3 65 (4.64%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.21%) ACCA
6 38 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.64%) CIMA
8 36 (2.57%) CISSP
8 36 (2.57%) DBS Check
9 31 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (2.00%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.57%) PMI Certification
12 20 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (1.21%) CISM
14 17 (1.21%) PMP
15 16 (1.14%) CCNP
16 15 (1.07%) HND
17 11 (0.79%) CEH
17 11 (0.79%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (6.29%) QA
2 79 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 73 (5.21%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.43%) PMO
6 30 (2.14%) GDPR
7 28 (2.00%) GAAP
8 25 (1.79%) NIST
9 19 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.07%) SLA
11 12 (0.86%) TickIT
12 10 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
12 10 (0.71%) WCAG
13 8 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
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 66 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.14%) Docker
3 27 (1.93%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.21%) Firmware
5 15 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.57%) 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 (0.071%) XenApp
12 1 (0.071%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 46 (3.29%) Terraform
3 31 (2.21%) Ansible
4 20 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.36%) 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 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.29%) Grafana
10 4 (0.29%) 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
1 309 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.64%) Google
3 42 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 37 (2.64%) Cisco
5 35 (2.50%) Oracle
6 32 (2.29%) SAP
7 27 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.79%) VMware
9 20 (1.43%) Adobe
10 18 (1.29%) Remedy
11 16 (1.14%) Databricks
12 15 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.00%) IBM
13 14 (1.00%) iManage
14 12 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.86%) SolarWinds
15 11 (0.79%) HubSpot
15 11 (0.79%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.71%) HP
17 9 (0.64%) Pardot