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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 93 104
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 2,152 1,370 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.08% 3.17% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 3.57% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 670 806
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%

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 76,043 38,365 55,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.51% 88.77% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 21,959 30,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.46% -5.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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
North of England +95 510 £45,000 - 499
London -40 451 £65,000 - 1,069
South East +12 446 £47,500 +15.85% 412
North West +87 303 £45,000 - 286
Midlands +4 290 £41,750 -1.76% 239
South West +10 287 £57,500 -4.17% 222
West Midlands -9 179 £42,500 - 158
East of England -32 141 £47,500 +21.79% 178
Yorkshire +53 138 £42,500 -21.66% 158
East Midlands +19 110 £35,220 -17.13% 80
North East -20 69 £57,500 +90.08% 57
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 87 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.16%) Confluence
4 18 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.70%) CMS
6 12 (0.56%) WordPress
7 9 (0.42%) Apache
8 5 (0.23%) nginx
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.093%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.093%) Drupal
10 2 (0.093%) Gentran
10 2 (0.093%) IIS
10 2 (0.093%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.093%) Luigi
10 2 (0.093%) Office Communications Server
10 2 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.093%) SAS
Applications
1 158 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 156 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.88%) Revit
5 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.46%) Simulink
6 10 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (0.42%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.42%) InDesign
7 9 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.33%) Navisworks
10 5 (0.23%) Fusion 360
11 4 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.19%) CapCut
11 4 (0.19%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.14%) Maya
12 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.28%) Exchequer
5 5 (0.23%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.093%) Academy Housing
7 2 (0.093%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.093%) Maximo
7 2 (0.093%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.093%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.093%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.093%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.046%) FastStats
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.046%) Primavera
8 1 (0.046%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.046%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 275 (12.78%) Azure
2 204 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
3 190 (8.83%) AWS
4 178 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 95 (4.41%) SaaS
6 65 (3.02%) GCP
7 63 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 42 (1.95%) GitHub
10 38 (1.77%) Serverless
11 30 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
13 28 (1.30%) Google Analytics
14 26 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.16%) OneDrive
16 24 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.02%) OCI
18 19 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 18 (0.84%) Snowflake
20 17 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.39%) Firewall
2 64 (2.97%) DNS
3 48 (2.23%) DHCP
4 43 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 42 (1.95%) VPN
6 35 (1.63%) Network Security
7 29 (1.35%) VLAN
8 28 (1.30%) HTTP
9 27 (1.25%) WAN
10 24 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (0.93%) Wireless
12 18 (0.84%) LAN
13 14 (0.65%) Broadband
14 12 (0.56%) BGP
15 10 (0.46%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.46%) VoIP
16 9 (0.42%) Ethernet
17 8 (0.37%) Internet
18 7 (0.33%) AMQP
18 7 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.06%) Power BI
2 65 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 47 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (1.16%) Redis
6 24 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 22 (1.02%) Tableau
8 20 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (0.84%) Big Data
10 17 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (0.79%) Metadata
10 17 (0.79%) Power Query
10 17 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
12 14 (0.65%) GIS
12 14 (0.65%) MySQL
13 13 (0.60%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.51%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.42%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 93 (4.32%) Git
2 80 (3.72%) JIRA
3 32 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.02%) GitLab
5 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.28%) Postman
8 5 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.23%) MSI
9 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.19%) Maven
9 4 (0.19%) Storybook
9 4 (0.19%) Vite
10 3 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.14%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 991 (46.05%) Social Skills
2 455 (21.14%) Finance
3 367 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.27%) Organisational Skills
5 192 (8.92%) Marketing
6 162 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 159 (7.39%) Public Sector
8 148 (6.88%) Aerospace
9 122 (5.67%) Manufacturing
10 108 (5.02%) Legal
11 100 (4.65%) Retail
12 95 (4.41%) Law
13 87 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
14 82 (3.81%) Electronics
15 69 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
16 65 (3.02%) Telecoms
17 45 (2.09%) Banking
18 41 (1.91%) Military
19 33 (1.53%) Local Government
20 31 (1.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 255 (11.85%) Senior
2 187 (8.69%) Analyst
3 185 (8.60%) Developer
4 160 (7.43%) Lead
5 92 (4.28%) Software Engineer
6 78 (3.62%) IT Support
7 75 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (2.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 57 (2.65%) Architect
9 57 (2.65%) IT Manager
9 57 (2.65%) Security Engineer
10 54 (2.51%) Support Analyst
11 53 (2.46%) Consultant
12 51 (2.37%) Development Manager
13 49 (2.28%) Support Engineer
14 48 (2.23%) Administrator
14 48 (2.23%) Business Development Manager
14 48 (2.23%) Business Manager
15 45 (2.09%) Coordinator
15 45 (2.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (4.23%) Node.js
2 83 (3.86%) REST
3 64 (2.97%) Terraform
4 62 (2.88%) HTML
5 49 (2.28%) .NET
6 48 (2.23%) CSS
7 39 (1.81%) React
8 29 (1.35%) Middleware
9 28 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 28 (1.30%) Vue
10 27 (1.25%) RESTful
11 24 (1.12%) JSON
11 24 (1.12%) SOAP
12 23 (1.07%) EDI
13 20 (0.93%) Kafka
14 17 (0.79%) Spring
15 16 (0.74%) Spring Boot
15 16 (0.74%) XML
16 15 (0.70%) .NET Core
16 15 (0.70%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.09%) Onboarding
2 126 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 120 (5.58%) Driving Licence
4 87 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 82 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.65%) Cloud Native
7 47 (2.18%) Social Media
8 35 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.16%) Analogue Electronics
11 23 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.07%) NHS
12 21 (0.98%) Blog
13 20 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (0.84%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.79%) Data Centre
17 15 (0.70%) Security Posture
18 14 (0.65%) FMCG
18 14 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 138 (6.41%) Windows
2 85 (3.95%) Linux
3 56 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.65%) Unix
5 13 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
8 10 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.42%) CentOS
10 8 (0.37%) Android
10 8 (0.37%) Debian
10 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.14%) VMS
12 2 (0.093%) Rocky
13 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
2 644 (29.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 405 (18.82%) Agile
4 303 (14.08%) Decision-Making
5 272 (12.64%) Customer Service
6 250 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 245 (11.38%) AI
8 228 (10.59%) Analytics
9 222 (10.32%) Mentoring
10 214 (9.94%) CRM
11 209 (9.71%) Cyber Intelligence
12 206 (9.57%) CI/CD
13 205 (9.53%) Project Delivery
14 193 (8.97%) Service Delivery
15 176 (8.18%) Roadmaps
16 167 (7.76%) Software Engineering
17 166 (7.71%) Collaborative Culture
17 166 (7.71%) Validation
18 164 (7.62%) Project Management
19 155 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 234 (10.87%) SQL
2 185 (8.60%) Python
3 117 (5.44%) JavaScript
4 80 (3.72%) Java
5 72 (3.35%) TypeScript
6 66 (3.07%) C#
7 60 (2.79%) C
8 46 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 26 (1.21%) PHP
10 23 (1.07%) C++
11 21 (0.98%) VBA
12 18 (0.84%) Embedded C
13 16 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (0.74%) MATLAB
14 15 (0.70%) ABAP
14 15 (0.70%) Bash
15 10 (0.46%) Bicep
16 8 (0.37%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 323 (15.01%) Degree
2 243 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 117 (5.44%) SC Cleared
4 78 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 57 (2.65%) DBS Check
6 47 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 47 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (1.86%) ACCA
8 34 (1.58%) CIMA
9 30 (1.39%) HNC
9 30 (1.39%) HND
10 24 (1.12%) CISSP
11 23 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.93%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.74%) Postgraduate
15 15 (0.70%) Chartered Engineer
15 15 (0.70%) CISM
15 15 (0.70%) PMP
16 13 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.60%) QA
2 110 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 104 (4.83%) Data Quality
4 74 (3.44%) GDPR
5 34 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (1.35%) PMO
8 24 (1.12%) SLA
9 23 (1.07%) GAAP
10 18 (0.84%) NIST
11 17 (0.79%) WCAG
12 12 (0.56%) TickIT
13 11 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
14 10 (0.46%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.42%) NCSC
16 8 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.28%) ISO 19650
17 6 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 85 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.04%) Docker
3 27 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.21%) Firmware
5 24 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.23%) ClearTrust
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.046%) KVM
9 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.046%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.046%) vSphere
9 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 69 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (1.81%) Ansible
4 11 (0.51%) Puppet
4 11 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.37%) SCCM
6 7 (0.33%) Grafana
7 6 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.14%) BMC PATROL
9 3 (0.14%) Control-M
9 3 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.14%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.14%) Nessus
9 3 (0.14%) Plesk
9 3 (0.14%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.093%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.093%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 489 (22.72%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.07%) Google
3 57 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 48 (2.23%) Oracle
5 45 (2.09%) SAP
6 36 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 36 (1.67%) VMware
7 34 (1.58%) Cisco
8 32 (1.49%) Sage
9 29 (1.35%) Databricks
10 27 (1.25%) YouTube
11 26 (1.21%) Adobe
12 20 (0.93%) HubSpot
13 15 (0.70%) Civica
13 15 (0.70%) Fortinet
13 15 (0.70%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.60%) iManage
15 12 (0.56%) IBM
15 12 (0.56%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.51%) Thales