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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 87 94
Rank change year-on-year -37 +7 +34
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,368 1,507 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.58% 3.56% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.91% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 830 684 1,630
10th Percentile £29,108 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £37,042
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 £69,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 63,663 38,500 75,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 91.01% 82.28%
Number of salaries quoted 44,969 21,724 54,278
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £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% -8.72%

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 5 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 5 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 -57 383 £65,000 - 281
South East -19 290 £50,000 +6.95% 168
North of England +19 263 £51,772 +3.54% 148
Midlands -7 210 £42,500 -18.09% 116
North West +20 158 £47,271 -5.46% 85
West Midlands -34 106 £45,000 -18.18% 66
South West -47 106 £38,738 -35.44% 80
East Midlands +17 103 £41,250 -2.94% 50
East of England -69 78 £55,000 +57.14% 60
Yorkshire -10 73 £60,000 +2.56% 40
North East -27 32 £57,500 +64.29% 24
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 57 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.32%) WordPress
4 14 (1.02%) CMS
4 14 (1.02%) Confluence
5 12 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.66%) SAS
7 7 (0.51%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) IIS
9 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Drupal
10 2 (0.15%) Gentran
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Luigi
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.073%) Appian
11 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.073%) OpenStack
Applications
1 66 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.37%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.37%) InDesign
7 5 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.29%) Simulink
9 3 (0.22%) Blender
9 3 (0.22%) Maya
9 3 (0.22%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.073%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.37%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.073%) FastStats
7 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 251 (18.35%) Azure
2 188 (13.74%) AWS
3 147 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
4 127 (9.28%) Power Platform
5 72 (5.26%) GCP
5 72 (5.26%) SaaS
6 51 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.85%) Serverless
9 30 (2.19%) Google Analytics
10 27 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (1.97%) GitHub
11 23 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 18 (1.32%) Figma
13 18 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.24%) Snowflake
15 16 (1.17%) OCI
16 15 (1.10%) Boomi
17 13 (0.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.14%) Firewall
2 49 (3.58%) DNS
3 43 (3.14%) VPN
4 41 (3.00%) Network Security
5 38 (2.78%) DHCP
5 38 (2.78%) VLAN
6 37 (2.70%) WAN
7 31 (2.27%) TCP/IP
8 28 (2.05%) LAN
9 26 (1.90%) Wireless
10 22 (1.61%) BGP
10 22 (1.61%) Broadband
11 21 (1.54%) HTTP
12 17 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (1.02%) SNMP
14 12 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.88%) EIGRP
14 12 (0.88%) WAAS
14 12 (0.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.26%) Power BI
2 42 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.97%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (1.83%) Tableau
5 19 (1.39%) Big Data
6 18 (1.32%) MySQL
7 17 (1.24%) GIS
7 17 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.02%) Metadata
9 14 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
10 12 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.88%) Redis
10 12 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.73%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.37%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 61 (4.46%) Git
2 48 (3.51%) JIRA
3 34 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.17%) GitLab
5 9 (0.66%) Postman
6 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.22%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.22%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) MSI
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.073%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.073%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.073%) TestRail
General
1 611 (44.66%) Social Skills
2 361 (26.39%) Finance
3 266 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (10.89%) Marketing
5 122 (8.92%) Organisational Skills
6 97 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (7.02%) Legal
8 90 (6.58%) Public Sector
9 78 (5.70%) Aerospace
10 77 (5.63%) Law
11 57 (4.17%) Retail
12 53 (3.87%) Telecoms
13 52 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (3.07%) Manufacturing
15 40 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (2.63%) Banking
17 31 (2.27%) Electronics
18 29 (2.12%) Local Government
19 28 (2.05%) Advertising
20 20 (1.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 203 (14.84%) Senior
2 139 (10.16%) Analyst
3 110 (8.04%) Developer
4 96 (7.02%) Lead
5 63 (4.61%) Consultant
6 49 (3.58%) IT Support
6 49 (3.58%) Software Engineer
7 47 (3.44%) Support Engineer
8 45 (3.29%) Architect
8 45 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 45 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
9 42 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
10 41 (3.00%) Senior Manager
11 37 (2.70%) IT Manager
12 32 (2.34%) Business Analyst
13 30 (2.19%) Senior Developer
14 28 (2.05%) Network Engineer
15 27 (1.97%) IT Analyst
16 26 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (1.83%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.75%) Node.js
2 58 (4.24%) REST
3 44 (3.22%) .NET
4 41 (3.00%) React
5 37 (2.70%) HTML
6 28 (2.05%) CSS
6 28 (2.05%) JSON
7 26 (1.90%) Vue
7 26 (1.90%) XML
8 21 (1.54%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.46%) SOAP
10 18 (1.32%) Middleware
11 16 (1.17%) EDI
11 16 (1.17%) Next.js
12 15 (1.10%) OAuth
13 13 (0.95%) AngularJS
13 13 (0.95%) AWS CDK
13 13 (0.95%) RESTful
14 10 (0.73%) Spring
15 9 (0.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.07%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 62 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 57 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 52 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.49%) Social Media
7 33 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 30 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.97%) Blog
10 21 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.17%) NHS
13 15 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.02%) EPoS
15 13 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 118 (8.63%) Windows
2 74 (5.41%) Linux
3 48 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.58%) CentOS
6 8 (0.58%) Unix
7 7 (0.51%) Debian
8 6 (0.44%) Android
9 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (34.65%) Problem-Solving
2 348 (25.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 304 (22.22%) Agile
4 199 (14.55%) Decision-Making
5 173 (12.65%) Analytics
6 164 (11.99%) Mentoring
7 162 (11.84%) Roadmaps
8 159 (11.62%) AI
9 147 (10.75%) CI/CD
10 145 (10.60%) Service Delivery
11 125 (9.14%) Customer Service
12 120 (8.77%) Validation
13 119 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 118 (8.63%) DevOps
15 117 (8.55%) Project Management
16 116 (8.48%) Project Delivery
17 113 (8.26%) Computer Science
18 108 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
19 105 (7.68%) Collaborative Culture
20 102 (7.46%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 179 (13.08%) SQL
2 169 (12.35%) Python
3 67 (4.90%) JavaScript
4 63 (4.61%) Java
5 61 (4.46%) C#
6 52 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.07%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.97%) C
9 21 (1.54%) PHP
10 20 (1.46%) VBA
11 19 (1.39%) C++
12 15 (1.10%) Bash
13 14 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.95%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.73%) ABAP
15 10 (0.73%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.66%) VB
17 8 (0.58%) Bicep
18 5 (0.37%) Embedded C++
18 5 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 249 (18.20%) Degree
2 139 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 60 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.14%) ACCA
6 42 (3.07%) DBS Check
7 41 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.63%) CIMA
9 35 (2.56%) CISSP
10 31 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.54%) PMI Certification
14 20 (1.46%) CCNP
15 17 (1.24%) PMP
16 16 (1.17%) CISM
17 14 (1.02%) CCIE
17 14 (1.02%) HND
18 12 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.58%) QA
2 77 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.78%) PMO
6 29 (2.12%) GDPR
7 27 (1.97%) GAAP
8 25 (1.83%) NIST
9 20 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.95%) SLA
11 12 (0.88%) TickIT
12 9 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
13 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 8 (0.58%) WCAG
14 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.37%) Def Stans
System Software
1 64 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.34%) Docker
3 25 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.17%) Firmware
5 14 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (0.88%) ProxySG
7 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.37%) ClearTrust
9 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
11 1 (0.073%) XenApp
11 1 (0.073%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.58%) Terraform
3 33 (2.41%) Ansible
4 20 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.39%) SCCM
6 9 (0.66%) Puppet
7 8 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.29%) Grafana
9 4 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.22%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 299 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.75%) Google
3 42 (3.07%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.85%) Cisco
5 31 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 29 (2.12%) Oracle
7 27 (1.97%) SAP
8 24 (1.75%) VMware
9 19 (1.39%) Adobe
10 18 (1.32%) Remedy
11 16 (1.17%) Databricks
12 15 (1.10%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.10%) SolarWinds
13 13 (0.95%) iManage
14 12 (0.88%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.88%) F5
14 12 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.88%) IBM
14 12 (0.88%) Infoblox
14 12 (0.88%) Motorola