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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 84 94
Rank change year-on-year -38 +10 +33
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,317 1,482 2,463
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.56% 3.70% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 4.01% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 800 671 1,713
10th Percentile £29,120 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £41,250 £37,000
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £51,619 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +10.00% -13.51%

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 61,814 36,977 77,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.36% 92.34% 81.81%
Number of salaries quoted 43,548 20,347 56,521
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,440
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% -9.41%

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 23 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 23 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 -52 380 £65,000 - 168
South East -18 274 £50,000 +5.26% 131
North of England +12 259 £51,696 +3.39% 112
Midlands -14 198 £45,000 -14.29% 99
North West +32 156 £47,271 -5.46% 79
West Midlands -39 99 £47,085 -14.39% 51
East Midlands +17 98 £40,000 -5.88% 48
South West -39 98 £38,738 -32.63% 43
East of England -66 77 £55,000 +57.14% 56
Yorkshire -19 73 £58,750 +0.43% 21
North East -40 30 £57,500 +79.69% 13
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 53 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.21%) WordPress
4 14 (1.06%) CMS
4 14 (1.06%) Confluence
5 9 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.68%) SAS
6 6 (0.46%) Apache
6 6 (0.46%) IIS
7 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.15%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) Gentran
8 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.15%) Luigi
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
Applications
1 65 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.38%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.38%) InDesign
7 5 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.30%) Simulink
9 3 (0.23%) Blender
9 3 (0.23%) Maya
9 3 (0.23%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.076%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.52%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.38%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.076%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.076%) FastStats
6 1 (0.076%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.076%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.076%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (18.60%) Azure
2 177 (13.44%) AWS
3 136 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (9.19%) Power Platform
5 69 (5.24%) GCP
6 62 (4.71%) SaaS
7 49 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 48 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (2.81%) Serverless
10 28 (2.13%) Google Analytics
11 27 (2.05%) GitHub
12 26 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.44%) Figma
15 18 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.21%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.14%) Boomi
18 13 (0.99%) Snowflake
19 12 (0.91%) OCI
19 12 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (6.00%) Firewall
2 41 (3.11%) DNS
3 39 (2.96%) VPN
4 38 (2.89%) VLAN
5 37 (2.81%) Network Security
6 34 (2.58%) DHCP
7 33 (2.51%) WAN
8 26 (1.97%) TCP/IP
9 24 (1.82%) LAN
9 24 (1.82%) Wireless
10 22 (1.67%) Broadband
11 21 (1.59%) HTTP
12 20 (1.52%) BGP
13 15 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (1.06%) SNMP
15 12 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
15 12 (0.91%) WAAS
15 12 (0.91%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.28%) Power BI
2 34 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.05%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (1.82%) Tableau
6 16 (1.21%) Big Data
6 16 (1.21%) GIS
6 16 (1.21%) MySQL
7 14 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (0.99%) Metadata
8 13 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.61%) Redis
10 7 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.53%) Hadoop
10 7 (0.53%) Power Query
11 5 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 60 (4.56%) Git
2 45 (3.42%) JIRA
3 33 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.21%) GitLab
5 9 (0.68%) Postman
6 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.076%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.076%) MSI
10 1 (0.076%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.076%) Storybook
10 1 (0.076%) TestRail
General
1 585 (44.42%) Social Skills
2 345 (26.20%) Finance
3 253 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (10.48%) Marketing
5 122 (9.26%) Organisational Skills
6 95 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 94 (7.14%) Legal
8 87 (6.61%) Public Sector
9 73 (5.54%) Law
10 69 (5.24%) Aerospace
11 55 (4.18%) Retail
12 52 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (3.87%) Telecoms
14 39 (2.96%) Manufacturing
15 37 (2.81%) Banking
16 32 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (2.28%) Electronics
18 29 (2.20%) Local Government
19 25 (1.90%) Advertising
20 21 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (14.73%) Senior
2 135 (10.25%) Analyst
3 100 (7.59%) Developer
4 86 (6.53%) Lead
5 60 (4.56%) Consultant
6 47 (3.57%) IT Support
6 47 (3.57%) Support Engineer
6 47 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
7 46 (3.49%) Software Engineer
8 44 (3.34%) Architect
9 42 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 41 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
11 40 (3.04%) Senior Manager
12 36 (2.73%) IT Manager
13 28 (2.13%) Business Analyst
13 28 (2.13%) Senior Developer
14 24 (1.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (1.82%) Financial Controller
14 24 (1.82%) IT Analyst
14 24 (1.82%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (4.40%) Node.js
2 53 (4.02%) REST
3 44 (3.34%) .NET
4 37 (2.81%) React
5 33 (2.51%) HTML
6 28 (2.13%) JSON
7 26 (1.97%) XML
8 25 (1.90%) CSS
9 24 (1.82%) .NET Core
10 20 (1.52%) Vue
11 19 (1.44%) SOAP
12 16 (1.21%) EDI
12 16 (1.21%) Middleware
12 16 (1.21%) Next.js
13 15 (1.14%) OAuth
14 13 (0.99%) AWS CDK
14 13 (0.99%) RESTful
15 12 (0.91%) AngularJS
16 8 (0.61%) .NET Framework
16 8 (0.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 67 (5.09%) Management Information System
3 61 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.95%) Driving Licence
5 50 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 36 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (2.66%) Social Media
8 33 (2.51%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.90%) Blog
11 21 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 20 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.44%) Security Posture
14 15 (1.14%) NHS
15 14 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.99%) EPoS
16 13 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 11 (0.84%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 114 (8.66%) Windows
2 66 (5.01%) Linux
3 45 (3.42%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.61%) Unix
6 7 (0.53%) CentOS
7 6 (0.46%) Android
7 6 (0.46%) Debian
8 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.30%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.23%) VMS
9 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (34.24%) Problem-Solving
2 324 (24.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 283 (21.49%) Agile
4 189 (14.35%) Decision-Making
5 165 (12.53%) Analytics
6 162 (12.30%) Mentoring
7 153 (11.62%) Roadmaps
8 149 (11.31%) AI
9 140 (10.63%) Service Delivery
10 133 (10.10%) CI/CD
11 120 (9.11%) Validation
12 118 (8.96%) Customer Service
13 117 (8.88%) DevOps
14 114 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 112 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
16 107 (8.12%) Computer Science
16 107 (8.12%) Project Management
17 103 (7.82%) CRM
18 100 (7.59%) Project Delivery
19 96 (7.29%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 170 (12.91%) SQL
2 157 (11.92%) Python
3 59 (4.48%) C#
4 57 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 55 (4.18%) Java
6 46 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.67%) C
9 19 (1.44%) C++
10 17 (1.29%) PHP
10 17 (1.29%) VBA
11 15 (1.14%) Bash
12 14 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.91%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.76%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.68%) Bicep
15 9 (0.68%) VB
16 7 (0.53%) ABAP
17 5 (0.38%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 235 (17.84%) Degree
2 130 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 57 (4.33%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.49%) DBS Check
6 41 (3.11%) ACCA
7 37 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.73%) CISSP
9 35 (2.66%) CIMA
10 33 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.97%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.67%) PMI Certification
14 21 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (1.52%) PMP
16 19 (1.44%) CCNP
17 15 (1.14%) CISM
17 15 (1.14%) HND
18 14 (1.06%) Azure Certification
18 14 (1.06%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.76%) QA
2 79 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 40 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.89%) PMO
6 31 (2.35%) GDPR
7 24 (1.82%) GAAP
7 24 (1.82%) NIST
8 21 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.91%) TickIT
10 11 (0.84%) SLA
11 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 8 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
12 8 (0.61%) WCAG
13 7 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.53%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.53%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.38%) Def Stans
System Software
1 63 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.43%) Docker
3 24 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.14%) Firmware
5 14 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.91%) ProxySG
7 11 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.38%) ClearTrust
10 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) vSphere
12 1 (0.076%) XenApp
12 1 (0.076%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.72%) Terraform
3 32 (2.43%) Ansible
4 19 (1.44%) SCCM
5 18 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.61%) Puppet
6 8 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.30%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.30%) Grafana
8 4 (0.30%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (0.23%) Argo
9 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.23%) Kibana
9 3 (0.23%) Plesk
9 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Rancher
10 2 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 288 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.40%) Google
3 46 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 35 (2.66%) Cisco
5 31 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 25 (1.90%) VMware
7 22 (1.67%) Oracle
8 21 (1.59%) SAP
9 19 (1.44%) Adobe
10 18 (1.37%) Remedy
11 15 (1.14%) Databricks
12 14 (1.06%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.06%) SolarWinds
13 12 (0.91%) Blue Coat
13 12 (0.91%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.91%) F5
13 12 (0.91%) iManage
13 12 (0.91%) Infoblox
13 12 (0.91%) Motorola
14 11 (0.84%) Fortinet