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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 82 103
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 +24
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,636 1,556 1,769
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.74% 3.56% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.98% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 730 1,064
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,725 £30,279
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,943 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -1.06% -11.80%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £92,159
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%

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 69,384 39,107 59,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.66% 89.38% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 48,904 22,532 38,701
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -49 419 £65,000 - 1,002
North of England +34 333 £45,497 -4.72% 444
South East -23 325 £48,000 +4.35% 267
Midlands -6 269 £40,000 -15.79% 160
North West +51 207 £45,497 -4.22% 298
South West -20 167 £50,000 -24.71% 254
West Midlands -23 152 £41,750 -20.48% 89
East Midlands +21 116 £32,500 -23.53% 71
East of England -59 94 £50,800 +45.14% 116
Yorkshire +6 85 £42,500 -25.11% 104
North East -39 41 £55,000 +89.66% 49
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 75 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 15 (0.92%) Confluence
4 12 (0.73%) WordPress
5 11 (0.67%) CMS
6 10 (0.61%) SAS
7 8 (0.49%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.18%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) Gentran
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) Luigi
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.061%) Appian
Applications
1 92 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.49%) Revit
6 6 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.37%) InDesign
6 6 (0.37%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.31%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.31%) Simulink
8 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.18%) CapCut
9 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.18%) Maya
9 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.18%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 25 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.18%) Shopify
5 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.061%) FastStats
7 1 (0.061%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.061%) Primavera
7 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 270 (16.50%) Azure
2 199 (12.16%) AWS
3 173 (10.57%) Microsoft 365
4 148 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 85 (5.20%) SaaS
6 68 (4.16%) GCP
7 59 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (2.75%) Entra ID
9 42 (2.57%) Serverless
10 34 (2.08%) GitHub
11 30 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (1.59%) Google Analytics
13 25 (1.53%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 22 (1.34%) Snowflake
15 21 (1.28%) OCI
15 21 (1.28%) OneDrive
16 17 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.77%) Firewall
2 51 (3.12%) DNS
3 42 (2.57%) Network Security
4 37 (2.26%) DHCP
5 36 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 36 (2.20%) VPN
6 35 (2.14%) WAN
7 29 (1.77%) VLAN
8 27 (1.65%) LAN
9 25 (1.53%) HTTP
10 21 (1.28%) Broadband
11 20 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (1.16%) Wireless
13 16 (0.98%) BGP
14 13 (0.79%) VoIP
15 9 (0.55%) Internet
15 9 (0.55%) SNMP
16 7 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
16 7 (0.43%) EIGRP
16 7 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.58%) Power BI
2 56 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.65%) Tableau
5 24 (1.47%) Big Data
5 24 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 24 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (1.16%) Redis
7 18 (1.10%) Metadata
8 17 (1.04%) GIS
8 17 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.79%) MySQL
12 12 (0.73%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.67%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.67%) Power Query
14 6 (0.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (5.13%) Git
2 61 (3.73%) JIRA
3 35 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.98%) GitLab
5 9 (0.55%) Postman
6 7 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.31%) MSI
9 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) Storybook
10 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.18%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.18%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.18%) Selenium
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.12%) JUnit
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 751 (45.90%) Social Skills
2 378 (23.11%) Finance
3 299 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (10.02%) Organisational Skills
5 158 (9.66%) Marketing
6 125 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 124 (7.58%) Public Sector
8 111 (6.78%) Legal
9 107 (6.54%) Aerospace
10 84 (5.13%) Law
11 69 (4.22%) Manufacturing
11 69 (4.22%) Retail
12 68 (4.16%) Presentation Skills
13 66 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
14 49 (3.00%) Telecoms
15 47 (2.87%) Electronics
16 43 (2.63%) Banking
17 29 (1.77%) Advertising
18 27 (1.65%) Local Government
19 21 (1.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 226 (13.81%) Senior
2 149 (9.11%) Developer
3 148 (9.05%) Analyst
4 130 (7.95%) Lead
5 64 (3.91%) IT Support
6 63 (3.85%) Consultant
7 57 (3.48%) Software Engineer
8 46 (2.81%) Systems Engineer
9 44 (2.69%) IT Manager
9 44 (2.69%) Support Engineer
10 42 (2.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (2.44%) Architect
11 40 (2.44%) Development Manager
12 39 (2.38%) Software Developer
13 38 (2.32%) Business Development Manager
13 38 (2.32%) Business Manager
13 38 (2.32%) Senior Developer
14 36 (2.20%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (2.14%) Business Analyst
16 34 (2.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.20%) Node.js
2 72 (4.40%) REST
3 55 (3.36%) .NET
4 52 (3.18%) HTML
5 42 (2.57%) CSS
6 37 (2.26%) React
7 33 (2.02%) Vue
8 25 (1.53%) JSON
9 24 (1.47%) .NET Core
9 24 (1.47%) RESTful
10 23 (1.41%) SOAP
11 22 (1.34%) AngularJS
12 19 (1.16%) Middleware
13 18 (1.10%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.10%) EDI
14 17 (1.04%) XML
15 16 (0.98%) OAuth
16 15 (0.92%) Kafka
16 15 (0.92%) Next.js
17 14 (0.86%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.87%) Management Information System
2 91 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 71 (4.34%) Driving Licence
5 54 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.20%) Social Media
8 33 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.65%) Blog
9 27 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 19 (1.16%) NHS
11 19 (1.16%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.04%) Analogue Electronics
13 17 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
14 16 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (7.46%) Windows
2 74 (4.52%) Linux
3 50 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
5 10 (0.61%) Unix
6 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.49%) CentOS
8 7 (0.43%) Debian
8 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.24%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.18%) Android
11 3 (0.18%) VMS
11 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.061%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
2 481 (29.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 360 (22.00%) Agile
4 248 (15.16%) Decision-Making
5 203 (12.41%) Analytics
6 189 (11.55%) AI
7 176 (10.76%) Customer Service
7 176 (10.76%) Mentoring
8 174 (10.64%) CI/CD
8 174 (10.64%) Roadmaps
9 164 (10.02%) Service Delivery
10 149 (9.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 148 (9.05%) CRM
12 140 (8.56%) Project Delivery
13 139 (8.50%) Project Management
14 136 (8.31%) DevOps
15 134 (8.19%) Collaborative Culture
16 130 (7.95%) Validation
17 121 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
18 119 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 198 (12.10%) SQL
2 175 (10.70%) Python
3 97 (5.93%) JavaScript
4 76 (4.65%) Java
5 71 (4.34%) C#
6 68 (4.16%) TypeScript
7 41 (2.51%) C
8 36 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 25 (1.53%) PHP
10 23 (1.41%) VBA
11 17 (1.04%) C++
11 17 (1.04%) Embedded C
12 14 (0.86%) ABAP
12 14 (0.86%) Bash
13 11 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.55%) Bicep
15 8 (0.49%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.43%) VB
17 6 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 287 (17.54%) Degree
2 189 (11.55%) Security Cleared
3 88 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 49 (3.00%) ACCA
8 41 (2.51%) CIMA
9 40 (2.44%) DBS Check
10 37 (2.26%) CISSP
11 28 (1.71%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.28%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.10%) CISM
14 18 (1.10%) HND
15 16 (0.98%) CCNP
15 16 (0.98%) CEH
15 16 (0.98%) PMP
16 15 (0.92%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.36%) QA
2 94 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 87 (5.32%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.87%) GDPR
5 34 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (2.02%) PMO
7 29 (1.77%) GAAP
8 25 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (1.53%) NIST
9 21 (1.28%) SLA
10 18 (1.10%) WCAG
11 12 (0.73%) TickIT
12 11 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.55%) NCSC
15 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 70 (4.28%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.44%) Docker
3 21 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.22%) Firmware
5 19 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.37%) ProxySG
8 5 (0.31%) ClearTrust
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.061%) KVM
10 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.061%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.42%) Terraform
3 37 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (2.08%) Ansible
5 16 (0.98%) SCCM
6 9 (0.55%) Puppet
7 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.24%) Grafana
10 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.24%) ServiceCenter
11 3 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
11 3 (0.18%) Control-M
11 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.18%) Nessus
11 3 (0.18%) Plesk
11 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.18%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 368 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 64 (3.91%) Google
3 48 (2.93%) Salesforce
4 42 (2.57%) Oracle
5 39 (2.38%) SAP
6 38 (2.32%) Cisco
7 30 (1.83%) VMware
8 29 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.71%) Adobe
10 22 (1.34%) Databricks
11 19 (1.16%) HubSpot
12 18 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.92%) iManage
14 14 (0.86%) HP
14 14 (0.86%) Remedy
15 13 (0.79%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.79%) IBM
15 13 (0.79%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.61%) Red Hat
17 9 (0.55%) Apple