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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 83 102
Rank change year-on-year -23 +19 +25
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,654 1,565 1,765
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.74% 3.58% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 4.01% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,021 735 1,037
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -11.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%

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 69,923 39,061 58,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.56% 89.26% 81.17%
Number of salaries quoted 49,411 22,522 38,211
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -45 418 £65,000 - 791
North of England +38 338 £45,249 -5.73% 415
South East -23 328 £48,000 +4.35% 252
Midlands -13 270 £40,000 -15.79% 160
North West +47 210 £48,000 +3.78% 284
South West -14 177 £55,000 -10.20% 246
West Midlands -28 153 £42,500 -19.05% 95
East Midlands +20 116 £32,500 -23.53% 64
East of England -67 96 £47,500 +35.71% 109
Yorkshire +22 88 £42,500 -27.35% 91
North East -35 40 £55,000 +89.66% 47
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 76 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (0.97%) Confluence
4 15 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.73%) WordPress
6 11 (0.67%) CMS
7 10 (0.60%) SAS
8 8 (0.48%) Apache
9 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) Gentran
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) Luigi
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 96 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.54%) Revit
6 7 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.36%) InDesign
7 6 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.36%) Simulink
8 5 (0.30%) Fusion 360
9 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.18%) CapCut
10 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.18%) Maya
10 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.18%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 26 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.060%) FastStats
8 1 (0.060%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.060%) Primavera
8 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 261 (15.78%) Azure
2 192 (11.61%) AWS
3 174 (10.52%) Microsoft 365
4 153 (9.25%) Power Platform
5 84 (5.08%) SaaS
6 63 (3.81%) GCP
7 58 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.66%) Entra ID
9 41 (2.48%) Serverless
10 34 (2.06%) GitHub
11 29 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
13 26 (1.57%) Google Analytics
13 26 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.33%) Snowflake
15 21 (1.27%) OCI
15 21 (1.27%) OneDrive
16 19 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.47%) Firewall
2 50 (3.02%) DNS
3 39 (2.36%) Network Security
4 36 (2.18%) DHCP
5 35 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 34 (2.06%) VPN
7 31 (1.87%) WAN
8 27 (1.63%) VLAN
9 25 (1.51%) HTTP
10 24 (1.45%) LAN
11 20 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (1.03%) Broadband
12 17 (1.03%) Wireless
13 14 (0.85%) BGP
14 12 (0.73%) VoIP
15 9 (0.54%) Internet
16 7 (0.42%) SNMP
17 6 (0.36%) IPsec
17 6 (0.36%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.74%) Power BI
2 56 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.93%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.63%) Tableau
5 24 (1.45%) Big Data
5 24 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 24 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (1.15%) Redis
7 18 (1.09%) Metadata
8 17 (1.03%) GIS
8 17 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.91%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.79%) MySQL
12 11 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
12 11 (0.67%) Hadoop
12 11 (0.67%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.67%) Power Query
13 6 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 83 (5.02%) Git
2 63 (3.81%) JIRA
3 34 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.91%) GitLab
5 8 (0.48%) Postman
6 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.30%) MSI
9 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.24%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) Storybook
10 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.18%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) MSTest
11 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 761 (46.01%) Social Skills
2 380 (22.97%) Finance
3 297 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (9.92%) Organisational Skills
5 157 (9.49%) Marketing
6 132 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 125 (7.56%) Public Sector
8 110 (6.65%) Legal
9 108 (6.53%) Aerospace
10 83 (5.02%) Law
11 72 (4.35%) Manufacturing
12 69 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
12 69 (4.17%) Retail
13 67 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
14 49 (2.96%) Electronics
14 49 (2.96%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.60%) Banking
16 29 (1.75%) Advertising
17 27 (1.63%) Local Government
18 21 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 223 (13.48%) Senior
2 154 (9.31%) Developer
3 151 (9.13%) Analyst
4 131 (7.92%) Lead
5 65 (3.93%) IT Support
6 63 (3.81%) Consultant
7 59 (3.57%) Software Engineer
8 43 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (2.60%) IT Manager
9 42 (2.54%) Development Manager
9 42 (2.54%) Support Engineer
9 42 (2.54%) Systems Engineer
10 40 (2.42%) Senior Developer
10 40 (2.42%) Software Developer
11 39 (2.36%) Business Development Manager
11 39 (2.36%) Business Manager
11 39 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
12 38 (2.30%) Architect
13 36 (2.18%) Business Analyst
14 34 (2.06%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.14%) Node.js
2 72 (4.35%) REST
3 55 (3.33%) .NET
4 53 (3.20%) HTML
5 42 (2.54%) CSS
6 36 (2.18%) React
7 33 (2.00%) Vue
8 25 (1.51%) JSON
9 24 (1.45%) RESTful
10 23 (1.39%) .NET Core
10 23 (1.39%) SOAP
11 22 (1.33%) AngularJS
12 19 (1.15%) Middleware
13 18 (1.09%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.09%) EDI
14 17 (1.03%) XML
15 15 (0.91%) Kafka
15 15 (0.91%) OAuth
16 14 (0.85%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.80%) Management Information System
2 93 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.41%) Driving Licence
5 55 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.96%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.18%) Social Media
8 30 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.57%) Blog
11 21 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.09%) NHS
12 18 (1.09%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
13 17 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.97%) Analogue Electronics
14 16 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (7.38%) Windows
2 76 (4.59%) Linux
3 50 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.73%) FreeRTOS
5 11 (0.67%) Unix
6 9 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.48%) CentOS
7 8 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.42%) Debian
9 6 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Android
11 3 (0.18%) VMS
11 3 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (32.29%) Problem-Solving
2 488 (29.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 361 (21.83%) Agile
4 246 (14.87%) Decision-Making
5 203 (12.27%) Analytics
6 188 (11.37%) AI
7 182 (11.00%) Customer Service
8 172 (10.40%) CI/CD
8 172 (10.40%) Mentoring
9 168 (10.16%) Roadmaps
10 164 (9.92%) Service Delivery
11 155 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 153 (9.25%) CRM
13 140 (8.46%) Project Delivery
14 139 (8.40%) Project Management
15 136 (8.22%) DevOps
16 133 (8.04%) Collaborative Culture
17 127 (7.68%) Validation
18 122 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
19 120 (7.26%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 201 (12.15%) SQL
2 170 (10.28%) Python
3 100 (6.05%) JavaScript
4 73 (4.41%) Java
5 72 (4.35%) C#
6 67 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 44 (2.66%) C
8 37 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 25 (1.51%) PHP
10 23 (1.39%) VBA
11 18 (1.09%) C++
12 16 (0.97%) Embedded C
13 14 (0.85%) ABAP
13 14 (0.85%) Bash
14 12 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.54%) Bicep
17 8 (0.48%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.48%) VB
18 6 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 286 (17.29%) Degree
2 189 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 86 (5.20%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 50 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 48 (2.90%) ACCA
8 40 (2.42%) CIMA
8 40 (2.42%) DBS Check
9 34 (2.06%) CISSP
10 28 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.27%) PMI Certification
13 20 (1.21%) HND
14 17 (1.03%) CISM
15 16 (0.97%) CEH
15 16 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.97%) HNC
15 16 (0.97%) PMP
16 14 (0.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.35%) QA
2 94 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 88 (5.32%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.84%) GDPR
5 32 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.93%) PMO
6 29 (1.75%) GAAP
7 24 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (1.39%) NIST
9 21 (1.27%) SLA
10 18 (1.09%) WCAG
11 12 (0.73%) TickIT
12 10 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
13 9 (0.54%) NCSC
14 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 5 (0.30%) PERC
17 4 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 70 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.36%) Docker
3 20 (1.21%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Firmware
5 15 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.30%) ClearTrust
7 4 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.12%) vSphere
9 1 (0.060%) KVM
9 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.060%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.33%) Terraform
3 38 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (2.00%) Ansible
5 15 (0.91%) SCCM
6 9 (0.54%) Puppet
7 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.24%) Grafana
10 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
11 3 (0.18%) Cisco CUCM
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%) ServiceCenter
11 3 (0.18%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 370 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.57%) Google
3 46 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 42 (2.54%) Oracle
5 39 (2.36%) SAP
6 35 (2.12%) Cisco
7 31 (1.87%) VMware
8 28 (1.69%) Adobe
8 28 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.33%) Databricks
10 19 (1.15%) HubSpot
11 18 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 15 (0.91%) iManage
13 13 (0.79%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.79%) HP
13 13 (0.79%) IBM
14 12 (0.73%) Remedy
15 11 (0.67%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.60%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.60%) Sage