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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 83 96
Rank change year-on-year -35 +13 +32
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,438 1,538 2,033
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.61% 3.55% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 3.95% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 894 716 1,330
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,725
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,793 £52,086
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +5.20% -9.42%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £71,137
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,250 £52,500 £51,850
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.25% -6.97%

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 65,772 38,931 65,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 89.97% 81.95%
Number of salaries quoted 46,496 22,437 45,318
10th Percentile £31,037 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 24 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 24 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 -53 381 £65,000 - 282
South East -20 308 £50,000 +8.70% 216
North of England +25 281 £51,772 +3.54% 195
Midlands -12 237 £43,750 -7.89% 134
North West +30 177 £45,497 -9.01% 98
West Midlands -36 129 £46,042 -12.30% 80
South West -38 122 £38,738 -42.61% 94
East Midlands +16 107 £35,440 -16.61% 54
East of England -69 73 £55,000 +57.14% 68
Yorkshire -11 69 £58,750 +3.52% 58
North East -28 35 £58,750 +67.86% 42
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 61 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.04%) WordPress
4 13 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.76%) Confluence
6 10 (0.70%) CMS
7 9 (0.63%) SAS
8 6 (0.42%) Apache
9 5 (0.35%) IIS
10 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.14%) Drupal
12 2 (0.14%) Gentran
12 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
13 1 (0.070%) Appian
13 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 73 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.35%) Fusion 360
6 5 (0.35%) InDesign
6 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.28%) Simulink
8 3 (0.21%) Blender
8 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.21%) Maya
8 3 (0.21%) Stateflow
9 2 (0.14%) Trello
10 1 (0.070%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.070%) Revit
10 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.070%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.070%) FastStats
8 1 (0.070%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.070%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.070%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.070%) Shopify
8 1 (0.070%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 248 (17.25%) Azure
2 189 (13.14%) AWS
3 155 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
4 137 (9.53%) Power Platform
5 80 (5.56%) SaaS
6 64 (4.45%) GCP
7 53 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (3.55%) Entra ID
9 42 (2.92%) Serverless
10 32 (2.23%) GitHub
11 28 (1.95%) Google Analytics
12 27 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
15 20 (1.39%) OCI
15 20 (1.39%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.32%) Power Automate
17 16 (1.11%) Figma
18 15 (1.04%) Boomi
18 15 (1.04%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.42%) Firewall
2 49 (3.41%) DNS
3 41 (2.85%) Network Security
4 37 (2.57%) DHCP
5 36 (2.50%) VPN
6 35 (2.43%) WAN
7 33 (2.29%) TCP/IP
8 32 (2.23%) VLAN
9 26 (1.81%) LAN
10 23 (1.60%) HTTP
11 22 (1.53%) Broadband
11 22 (1.53%) Wireless
12 19 (1.32%) BGP
13 17 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.76%) SNMP
15 9 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.63%) Internet
16 8 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
16 8 (0.56%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.56%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.28%) Power BI
2 51 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 27 (1.88%) Tableau
5 25 (1.74%) BigQuery
6 24 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.46%) Big Data
8 19 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.25%) GIS
9 18 (1.25%) MySQL
10 16 (1.11%) Metadata
11 15 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
12 14 (0.97%) Redis
13 12 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (0.76%) NoSQL
15 10 (0.70%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.56%) Power Query
17 7 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 69 (4.80%) Git
2 51 (3.55%) JIRA
3 34 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.18%) GitLab
5 9 (0.63%) Postman
6 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.28%) Maven
7 4 (0.28%) MSI
7 4 (0.28%) Storybook
8 3 (0.21%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.21%) Selenium
9 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.14%) MSTest
9 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.070%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.070%) JUnit
10 1 (0.070%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.070%) Subversion
General
1 657 (45.69%) Social Skills
2 365 (25.38%) Finance
3 272 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (10.36%) Marketing
5 125 (8.69%) Organisational Skills
6 108 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 103 (7.16%) Public Sector
8 102 (7.09%) Legal
9 80 (5.56%) Aerospace
10 79 (5.49%) Law
11 58 (4.03%) Retail
12 57 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
14 50 (3.48%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.99%) Manufacturing
16 39 (2.71%) Banking
17 34 (2.36%) Electronics
18 28 (1.95%) Advertising
19 26 (1.81%) Local Government
20 19 (1.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 217 (15.09%) Senior
2 146 (10.15%) Analyst
3 125 (8.69%) Developer
4 114 (7.93%) Lead
5 63 (4.38%) Consultant
6 50 (3.48%) IT Support
6 50 (3.48%) Software Engineer
7 44 (3.06%) Systems Engineer
8 43 (2.99%) Architect
8 43 (2.99%) Support Engineer
9 42 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
9 42 (2.92%) Senior Manager
10 40 (2.78%) IT Manager
11 39 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 36 (2.50%) Senior Developer
13 35 (2.43%) Business Analyst
14 32 (2.23%) Business Manager
14 32 (2.23%) Development Manager
15 31 (2.16%) Business Development Manager
15 31 (2.16%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.42%) Node.js
2 67 (4.66%) REST
3 42 (2.92%) .NET
3 42 (2.92%) HTML
4 38 (2.64%) React
5 32 (2.23%) CSS
6 30 (2.09%) JSON
7 29 (2.02%) Vue
8 25 (1.74%) XML
9 23 (1.60%) SOAP
10 22 (1.53%) RESTful
11 20 (1.39%) .NET Core
12 19 (1.32%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.25%) Middleware
14 17 (1.18%) EDI
15 16 (1.11%) Next.js
16 15 (1.04%) OAuth
17 13 (0.90%) AWS CDK
17 13 (0.90%) Kafka
18 12 (0.83%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 86 (5.98%) Onboarding
2 80 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 70 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 61 (4.24%) Driving Licence
5 48 (3.34%) Cloud Native
6 33 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.23%) Public Cloud
8 28 (1.95%) Social Media
9 27 (1.88%) Blog
10 25 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.32%) NHS
13 19 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.97%) EPoS
17 12 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 117 (8.14%) Windows
2 73 (5.08%) Linux
3 49 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.90%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.56%) Unix
6 7 (0.49%) CentOS
7 6 (0.42%) Debian
8 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.21%) Android
10 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.21%) VMS
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (33.73%) Problem-Solving
2 408 (28.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 324 (22.53%) Agile
4 216 (15.02%) Decision-Making
5 180 (12.52%) Analytics
6 173 (12.03%) AI
7 168 (11.68%) Roadmaps
8 164 (11.40%) Mentoring
9 151 (10.50%) CI/CD
10 148 (10.29%) Service Delivery
11 141 (9.81%) Customer Service
12 124 (8.62%) Validation
13 123 (8.55%) Project Delivery
14 119 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 118 (8.21%) Collaborative Culture
15 118 (8.21%) CRM
16 115 (8.00%) DevOps
16 115 (8.00%) Project Management
17 110 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
17 110 (7.65%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 186 (12.93%) SQL
2 165 (11.47%) Python
3 75 (5.22%) JavaScript
4 73 (5.08%) Java
5 63 (4.38%) TypeScript
6 62 (4.31%) C#
7 42 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.16%) C
9 23 (1.60%) PHP
10 22 (1.53%) VBA
11 18 (1.25%) C++
12 15 (1.04%) ABAP
12 15 (1.04%) Embedded C
13 14 (0.97%) Bash
13 14 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.70%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.56%) Bicep
15 8 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.56%) VB
16 6 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 258 (17.94%) Degree
2 148 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 74 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.20%) ACCA
6 42 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.64%) CIMA
8 34 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.29%) CISSP
9 33 (2.29%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.95%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.46%) PMI Certification
12 19 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.18%) CCNP
14 16 (1.11%) CISM
14 16 (1.11%) PMP
15 14 (0.97%) HND
16 11 (0.76%) CEH
17 10 (0.70%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (6.12%) QA
2 85 (5.91%) Accessibility
3 80 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.36%) PMO
6 32 (2.23%) GDPR
7 28 (1.95%) GAAP
8 23 (1.60%) NIST
9 18 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (1.18%) SLA
11 15 (1.04%) WCAG
12 12 (0.83%) TickIT
13 10 (0.70%) Good Clinical Practice
14 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 7 (0.49%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.42%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (4.45%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.36%) Docker
3 24 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.18%) Firmware
5 14 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
5 14 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.56%) ProxySG
7 5 (0.35%) ClearTrust
7 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.14%) vSphere
10 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.070%) XenApp
10 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.34%) Terraform
3 29 (2.02%) Ansible
4 24 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.32%) SCCM
6 8 (0.56%) Puppet
7 6 (0.42%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.28%) Grafana
9 4 (0.28%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.21%) Argo
10 3 (0.21%) BMC PATROL
10 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.21%) Kibana
10 3 (0.21%) Plesk
10 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.21%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 314 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.17%) Google
3 46 (3.20%) Salesforce
4 37 (2.57%) Cisco
5 35 (2.43%) Oracle
5 35 (2.43%) SAP
6 29 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 26 (1.81%) VMware
8 22 (1.53%) Adobe
9 18 (1.25%) Databricks
9 18 (1.25%) Remedy
10 17 (1.18%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.04%) iManage
12 14 (0.97%) IBM
12 14 (0.97%) SolarWinds
13 12 (0.83%) HP
13 12 (0.83%) HubSpot
14 11 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 10 (0.70%) CheckPoint
15 10 (0.70%) F5