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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 84 97
Rank change year-on-year -35 +13 +33
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,451 1,538 2,000
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.62% 3.55% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.95% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 902 718 1,299
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,793 £52,172
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +5.02% -9.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £71,217
90th Percentile £79,934 £82,500 £87,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -7.14%

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 65,989 38,936 64,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.93% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46,599 22,465 44,364
10th Percentile £31,250 £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% -11.29%
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% - -8.33%

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 25 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 25 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 -60 384 £65,000 - 250
South East -24 311 £50,000 +8.70% 192
North of England +31 282 £51,696 +3.39% 172
Midlands -10 241 £42,500 -12.82% 111
North West +34 176 £46,384 -7.23% 81
West Midlands -26 132 £45,000 -14.29% 71
South West -43 124 £38,738 -43.65% 72
East Midlands +10 108 £35,440 -16.61% 40
East of England -66 74 £55,000 +57.14% 57
Yorkshire -13 71 £57,500 +1.32% 54
North East -31 35 £58,750 +83.59% 41
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 63 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.03%) WordPress
4 13 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.76%) Confluence
6 10 (0.69%) CMS
7 9 (0.62%) SAS
8 6 (0.41%) Apache
9 5 (0.34%) 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 (0.069%) Appian
13 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 77 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.34%) Fusion 360
6 5 (0.34%) InDesign
6 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.34%) 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%) Revit
9 2 (0.14%) Trello
10 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.069%) SketchUp
10 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.34%) 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 (0.069%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.069%) FastStats
8 1 (0.069%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.069%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.069%) Shopify
8 1 (0.069%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 250 (17.23%) Azure
2 190 (13.09%) AWS
3 156 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
4 140 (9.65%) Power Platform
5 80 (5.51%) SaaS
6 64 (4.41%) GCP
7 53 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 42 (2.89%) Serverless
10 31 (2.14%) GitHub
11 28 (1.93%) Google Analytics
12 27 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
15 20 (1.38%) OCI
15 20 (1.38%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.38%) Snowflake
16 16 (1.10%) Figma
17 15 (1.03%) Boomi
17 15 (1.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.38%) Firewall
2 49 (3.38%) DNS
3 41 (2.83%) Network Security
4 37 (2.55%) DHCP
5 36 (2.48%) VPN
6 35 (2.41%) WAN
7 33 (2.27%) TCP/IP
8 32 (2.21%) VLAN
9 26 (1.79%) LAN
10 23 (1.59%) HTTP
11 22 (1.52%) Broadband
11 22 (1.52%) Wireless
12 19 (1.31%) BGP
13 17 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.76%) SNMP
15 9 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.62%) Internet
15 9 (0.62%) VoIP
16 8 (0.55%) WAAS
16 8 (0.55%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (8.34%) Power BI
2 51 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 27 (1.86%) Tableau
5 25 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 25 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.45%) Big Data
7 18 (1.24%) GIS
7 18 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.17%) MySQL
9 16 (1.10%) Metadata
10 15 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
11 14 (0.96%) Redis
12 13 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.69%) Hadoop
15 9 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.62%) Power Query
16 7 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 70 (4.82%) Git
2 51 (3.51%) JIRA
3 34 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.10%) GitLab
5 9 (0.62%) Postman
6 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
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 (0.069%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.069%) JUnit
10 1 (0.069%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.069%) Subversion
General
1 664 (45.76%) Social Skills
2 368 (25.36%) Finance
3 277 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (10.27%) Marketing
5 127 (8.75%) Organisational Skills
6 108 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 105 (7.24%) Public Sector
8 104 (7.17%) Legal
9 81 (5.58%) Aerospace
10 79 (5.44%) Law
11 58 (4.00%) Retail
12 57 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
14 50 (3.45%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.96%) Manufacturing
16 39 (2.69%) Banking
17 34 (2.34%) Electronics
18 28 (1.93%) Advertising
19 26 (1.79%) Local Government
20 19 (1.31%) Games
Job Titles
1 216 (14.89%) Senior
2 147 (10.13%) Analyst
3 127 (8.75%) Developer
4 115 (7.93%) Lead
5 63 (4.34%) Consultant
6 51 (3.51%) IT Support
6 51 (3.51%) Software Engineer
7 44 (3.03%) Architect
7 44 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
8 42 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
8 42 (2.89%) Senior Manager
8 42 (2.89%) Support Engineer
9 40 (2.76%) IT Manager
10 39 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 36 (2.48%) Senior Developer
12 35 (2.41%) Business Analyst
13 32 (2.21%) Business Manager
13 32 (2.21%) Development Manager
14 31 (2.14%) Business Development Manager
14 31 (2.14%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.38%) Node.js
2 67 (4.62%) REST
3 44 (3.03%) .NET
4 43 (2.96%) HTML
5 38 (2.62%) React
6 33 (2.27%) CSS
7 29 (2.00%) JSON
7 29 (2.00%) Vue
8 24 (1.65%) XML
9 23 (1.59%) SOAP
10 22 (1.52%) RESTful
11 21 (1.45%) .NET Core
12 19 (1.31%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.24%) Middleware
14 17 (1.17%) EDI
15 16 (1.10%) Next.js
16 15 (1.03%) OAuth
17 13 (0.90%) .NET Framework
17 13 (0.90%) AWS CDK
17 13 (0.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.86%) Onboarding
2 82 (5.65%) Management Information System
3 69 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 60 (4.14%) Driving Licence
5 48 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 35 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 28 (1.93%) Social Media
9 27 (1.86%) Blog
10 25 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 22 (1.52%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.31%) NHS
13 19 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.96%) EPoS
17 12 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 117 (8.06%) Windows
2 73 (5.03%) Linux
3 49 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.90%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.55%) Unix
6 7 (0.48%) CentOS
7 6 (0.41%) Debian
8 5 (0.34%) 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 (0.069%) Rocky
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
2 415 (28.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 328 (22.61%) Agile
4 220 (15.16%) Decision-Making
5 181 (12.47%) Analytics
6 175 (12.06%) AI
7 169 (11.65%) Roadmaps
8 164 (11.30%) Mentoring
9 151 (10.41%) CI/CD
10 148 (10.20%) Service Delivery
11 145 (9.99%) Customer Service
12 125 (8.61%) Project Delivery
13 124 (8.55%) Validation
14 120 (8.27%) Collaborative Culture
14 120 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 119 (8.20%) CRM
16 118 (8.13%) Project Management
17 117 (8.06%) DevOps
18 112 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
19 111 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (12.96%) SQL
2 166 (11.44%) Python
3 77 (5.31%) JavaScript
4 74 (5.10%) Java
5 63 (4.34%) C#
5 63 (4.34%) TypeScript
6 41 (2.83%) PowerShell
7 31 (2.14%) C
8 23 (1.59%) PHP
8 23 (1.59%) VBA
9 18 (1.24%) C++
10 15 (1.03%) ABAP
10 15 (1.03%) Embedded C
11 14 (0.96%) Bash
12 13 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.69%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.55%) Bicep
15 8 (0.55%) VB
16 6 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 261 (17.99%) Degree
2 149 (10.27%) Security Cleared
3 74 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 48 (3.31%) ACCA
6 43 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (2.76%) CIMA
8 36 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.41%) DBS Check
10 33 (2.27%) CISSP
11 28 (1.93%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.45%) PMI Certification
13 19 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (1.17%) CCNP
15 16 (1.10%) CISM
15 16 (1.10%) PMP
16 14 (0.96%) HND
17 11 (0.76%) CEH
18 10 (0.69%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.00%) QA
2 85 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 82 (5.65%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (2.41%) GDPR
6 34 (2.34%) PMO
7 29 (2.00%) GAAP
8 23 (1.59%) NIST
9 19 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (1.24%) SLA
11 15 (1.03%) WCAG
12 12 (0.83%) TickIT
13 10 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
14 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 7 (0.48%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.41%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.34%) Docker
3 24 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.17%) Firmware
5 14 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
5 14 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.55%) ProxySG
7 5 (0.34%) ClearTrust
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.14%) vSphere
10 1 (0.069%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.069%) XenApp
10 1 (0.069%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 47 (3.24%) Terraform
3 29 (2.00%) Ansible
4 24 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.31%) SCCM
6 8 (0.55%) Puppet
7 6 (0.41%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) 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%) BMC PATROL
10 3 (0.21%) Control-M
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
1 320 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.20%) Google
3 48 (3.31%) Salesforce
4 37 (2.55%) Cisco
5 36 (2.48%) Oracle
6 35 (2.41%) SAP
7 29 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.79%) VMware
9 24 (1.65%) Adobe
10 18 (1.24%) Databricks
10 18 (1.24%) Remedy
11 17 (1.17%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.03%) iManage
13 14 (0.96%) IBM
13 14 (0.96%) SolarWinds
14 13 (0.90%) HubSpot
15 12 (0.83%) HP
16 11 (0.76%) Fortinet
17 10 (0.69%) CheckPoint
17 10 (0.69%) F5