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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 75 90
Rank change year-on-year -66 +15 +18
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,123 1,403 2,330
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.40% 3.71% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 3.99% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 664 786 1,692
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £87,500
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 59,858 35,198 71,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.86% 93.05% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,901 20,543 53,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -51 361 £65,000 - 152
North of England -27 234 £53,200 +6.40% 113
South East -30 216 £50,000 -10.02% 109
North West +1 147 £51,772 +3.54% 55
Midlands -64 144 £42,500 -19.05% 80
South West -55 75 £41,375 -26.44% 48
East Midlands -21 74 £42,500 -15.00% 29
Yorkshire -56 71 £55,500 +10.02% 39
West Midlands -82 70 £42,625 -22.50% 51
East of England -98 54 £55,000 +7.91% 36
North East -34 16 £54,286 +55.10% 23
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 38 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.96%) Confluence
4 14 (1.25%) WordPress
5 11 (0.98%) CMS
6 9 (0.80%) IIS
6 9 (0.80%) SAS
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.45%) Apache
9 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Gentran
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.089%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.089%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.45%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.18%) Simulink
10 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.089%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.089%) InDesign
10 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (1.07%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.45%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.089%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.089%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.089%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 227 (20.21%) Azure
2 155 (13.80%) AWS
3 102 (9.08%) Power Platform
4 92 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (4.90%) GCP
6 37 (3.29%) SaaS
7 36 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 32 (2.85%) Serverless
9 27 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (2.40%) GitHub
10 22 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (1.87%) Google Analytics
12 15 (1.34%) Figma
12 15 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (1.34%) Vertex AI
13 14 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
13 14 (1.25%) Boomi
13 14 (1.25%) OpenShift
14 13 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.70%) Firewall
2 36 (3.21%) VPN
3 35 (3.12%) Network Security
4 33 (2.94%) WAN
5 32 (2.85%) Wireless
6 31 (2.76%) VLAN
7 29 (2.58%) DNS
8 27 (2.40%) LAN
9 22 (1.96%) BGP
10 21 (1.87%) DHCP
11 19 (1.69%) TCP/IP
12 18 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (1.51%) OSPF
13 17 (1.51%) SNMP
14 16 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (1.42%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (1.42%) EIGRP
14 16 (1.42%) WAAS
14 16 (1.42%) Wireless Security
15 13 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.10%) Power BI
2 25 (2.23%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.23%) Tableau
3 23 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 15 (1.34%) Metadata
5 15 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (1.25%) Big Data
6 14 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.98%) GIS
9 10 (0.89%) MySQL
10 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.53%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.53%) Looker
11 5 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.36%) QGIS
12 4 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 54 (4.81%) Git
2 50 (4.45%) JIRA
3 27 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.69%) GitLab
5 9 (0.80%) Postman
6 8 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.45%) Selenium
8 4 (0.36%) Subversion
8 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.27%) TestRail
10 2 (0.18%) MSTest
10 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.18%) Storybook
11 1 (0.089%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.089%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.089%) JUnit
11 1 (0.089%) Qt Creator
11 1 (0.089%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 464 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 311 (27.69%) Finance
3 224 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (12.11%) Marketing
5 109 (9.71%) Organisational Skills
6 88 (7.84%) Public Sector
7 78 (6.95%) Law
8 70 (6.23%) Legal
9 64 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (5.43%) Telecoms
11 59 (5.25%) Aerospace
11 59 (5.25%) Retail
12 44 (3.92%) Banking
13 37 (3.29%) Manufacturing
14 33 (2.94%) Military
15 29 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (2.23%) Electronics
17 23 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.78%) Billing
18 20 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (13.98%) Senior
2 104 (9.26%) Analyst
3 81 (7.21%) Developer
4 75 (6.68%) Lead
5 50 (4.45%) Architect
5 50 (4.45%) Support Engineer
6 48 (4.27%) Consultant
7 44 (3.92%) IT Support
8 40 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
9 33 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (2.85%) Senior Manager
10 32 (2.85%) Software Engineer
11 31 (2.76%) IT Manager
12 28 (2.49%) Senior Developer
13 25 (2.23%) Applications Developer
14 24 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (2.14%) Technical Support
15 23 (2.05%) Account Manager
16 22 (1.96%) Network Engineer
16 22 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.81%) .NET
2 35 (3.12%) React
2 35 (3.12%) REST
3 31 (2.76%) .NET Core
4 26 (2.32%) JSON
5 25 (2.23%) XML
6 24 (2.14%) HTML
7 23 (2.05%) Node.js
8 21 (1.87%) CSS
9 20 (1.78%) Middleware
10 19 (1.69%) EDI
11 13 (1.16%) ASP.NET
11 13 (1.16%) Next.js
11 13 (1.16%) SOAP
12 12 (1.07%) OAuth
12 12 (1.07%) RESTful
13 11 (0.98%) AWS CDK
14 10 (0.89%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.89%) OpenID
14 10 (0.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (5.43%) Onboarding
2 47 (4.19%) Management Information System
2 47 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 45 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (3.74%) Social Media
5 38 (3.38%) Data Centre
6 35 (3.12%) Driving Licence
7 32 (2.85%) Cloud Native
8 26 (2.32%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 15 (1.34%) Blog
13 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.16%) Life Science
15 11 (0.98%) NHS
16 10 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.89%) Pharmacovigilance
16 10 (0.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.53%) Windows
2 57 (5.08%) Linux
3 36 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (0.62%) CentOS
5 7 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.53%) Debian
6 6 (0.53%) Unix
6 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.45%) Android
7 5 (0.45%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.36%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.27%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.089%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (31.61%) Problem-Solving
2 249 (22.17%) Agile
3 232 (20.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 143 (12.73%) Analytics
5 138 (12.29%) Decision-Making
6 124 (11.04%) Mentoring
7 115 (10.24%) AI
7 115 (10.24%) DevOps
8 107 (9.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 103 (9.17%) Computer Science
10 99 (8.82%) CI/CD
11 97 (8.64%) Roadmaps
11 97 (8.64%) Service Delivery
12 94 (8.37%) Validation
13 92 (8.19%) Project Delivery
14 87 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
15 86 (7.66%) CRM
15 86 (7.66%) Project Management
16 84 (7.48%) Coaching
16 84 (7.48%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 127 (11.31%) Python
2 119 (10.60%) SQL
3 51 (4.54%) C#
4 44 (3.92%) Java
5 40 (3.56%) JavaScript
5 40 (3.56%) PowerShell
6 26 (2.32%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.42%) Bash
8 13 (1.16%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.80%) C
10 7 (0.62%) Embedded C
10 7 (0.62%) VBA
11 6 (0.53%) Bicep
11 6 (0.53%) C++
11 6 (0.53%) Go
11 6 (0.53%) Scala
11 6 (0.53%) VB
11 6 (0.53%) VB.NET
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
12 5 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 209 (18.61%) Degree
2 122 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.45%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.19%) DBS Check
6 43 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.38%) CISSP
8 35 (3.12%) Master's Degree
9 34 (3.03%) ACCA
10 32 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (2.67%) CIMA
12 27 (2.40%) PMI Certification
13 24 (2.14%) PMP
14 23 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (1.78%) CCNP
16 19 (1.69%) CCIE
16 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (1.25%) CISM
17 14 (1.25%) HND
18 13 (1.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 65 (5.79%) QA
3 43 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (3.12%) GDPR
5 34 (3.03%) PMO
6 33 (2.94%) Accessibility
7 24 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (2.05%) NIST
9 12 (1.07%) GAAP
9 12 (1.07%) TickIT
10 11 (0.98%) SLA
10 11 (0.98%) Solvency II
11 10 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.89%) EU AI Act
11 10 (0.89%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.89%) PSD2
12 7 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.62%) JSP 440
System Software
1 58 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.76%) Docker
3 16 (1.42%) ProxySG
4 15 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.16%) Firmware
6 9 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.27%) vSphere
10 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.089%) pfSense
11 1 (0.089%) XenApp
11 1 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.10%) Terraform
3 31 (2.76%) Ansible
4 17 (1.51%) SCCM
5 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.98%) Puppet
7 6 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.45%) Argo
8 5 (0.45%) Grafana
8 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.36%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.36%) Rancher
9 4 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
9 4 (0.36%) yum
10 3 (0.27%) Kibana
10 3 (0.27%) Plesk
11 2 (0.18%) cPanel
Vendors
1 238 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.16%) Google
3 37 (3.29%) Salesforce
4 33 (2.94%) Cisco
5 32 (2.85%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.23%) VMware
7 20 (1.78%) Adobe
8 18 (1.60%) SAP
9 17 (1.51%) Infoblox
10 16 (1.42%) Blue Coat
10 16 (1.42%) CheckPoint
10 16 (1.42%) F5
10 16 (1.42%) Motorola
10 16 (1.42%) Remedy
10 16 (1.42%) SolarWinds
11 13 (1.16%) Oracle
12 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.98%) Pardot
14 10 (0.89%) Databricks
15 9 (0.80%) HubSpot