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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 74 91
Rank change year-on-year -67 +17 +17
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,118 1,398 2,346
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.40% 3.70% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 3.98% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 661 783 1,701
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £37,169
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,835 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% +10.00% -16.00%

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 59,926 35,151 71,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.82% 93.00% 85.57%
Number of salaries quoted 37,965 20,596 53,814
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -45 359 £65,000 - 176
North of England -30 233 £54,250 +8.50% 125
South East -36 215 £50,000 -10.02% 109
North West +2 147 £51,772 +3.54% 64
Midlands -63 144 £42,500 -19.05% 89
South West -53 75 £45,125 -19.78% 47
East Midlands -19 74 £42,500 -15.00% 30
West Midlands -73 70 £42,625 -22.50% 59
Yorkshire -60 69 £57,500 +13.99% 42
East of England -95 55 £55,000 +7.91% 35
North East -35 17 £57,500 +64.29% 23
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 38 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.97%) Confluence
4 14 (1.25%) WordPress
5 11 (0.98%) CMS
6 9 (0.81%) IIS
6 9 (0.81%) SAS
7 7 (0.63%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.45%) Apache
9 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Gentran
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.089%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.089%) Jupyter
Applications
1 54 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.45%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.18%) Simulink
10 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.089%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.089%) InDesign
10 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (1.07%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.45%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.089%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.089%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 226 (20.21%) Azure
2 154 (13.77%) AWS
3 101 (9.03%) Power Platform
4 91 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (4.92%) GCP
6 37 (3.31%) SaaS
7 36 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.22%) Entra ID
8 32 (2.86%) Serverless
9 28 (2.50%) GitHub
10 27 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (1.88%) Google Analytics
13 15 (1.34%) Figma
13 15 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
14 14 (1.25%) Boomi
14 14 (1.25%) OpenShift
14 14 (1.25%) Vertex AI
15 12 (1.07%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.72%) Firewall
2 36 (3.22%) VPN
3 35 (3.13%) Network Security
4 33 (2.95%) WAN
5 32 (2.86%) Wireless
6 30 (2.68%) VLAN
7 29 (2.59%) DNS
8 27 (2.42%) LAN
9 22 (1.97%) BGP
10 21 (1.88%) DHCP
11 19 (1.70%) TCP/IP
12 18 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (1.52%) OSPF
13 17 (1.52%) SNMP
14 16 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (1.43%) Cisco Wireless
14 16 (1.43%) EIGRP
14 16 (1.43%) WAAS
14 16 (1.43%) Wireless Security
15 13 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (8.05%) Power BI
2 25 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.15%) Tableau
4 23 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 16 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.34%) Metadata
6 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (1.25%) Big Data
7 14 (1.25%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.98%) GIS
9 11 (0.98%) MySQL
10 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.54%) Looker
11 5 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.36%) QGIS
12 4 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 54 (4.83%) Git
2 50 (4.47%) JIRA
3 27 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.70%) GitLab
5 9 (0.81%) Postman
6 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.45%) Selenium
8 4 (0.36%) Subversion
8 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.27%) TestRail
10 2 (0.18%) MSTest
10 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.18%) Storybook
11 1 (0.089%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.089%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.089%) JUnit
11 1 (0.089%) Qt Creator
11 1 (0.089%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 459 (41.06%) Social Skills
2 310 (27.73%) Finance
3 224 (20.04%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (11.99%) Marketing
5 109 (9.75%) Organisational Skills
6 88 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 78 (6.98%) Law
8 69 (6.17%) Legal
9 64 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 60 (5.37%) Telecoms
11 59 (5.28%) Aerospace
12 57 (5.10%) Retail
13 43 (3.85%) Banking
14 36 (3.22%) Manufacturing
15 32 (2.86%) Military
16 29 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (2.15%) Electronics
18 20 (1.79%) Billing
18 20 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (14.13%) Senior
2 103 (9.21%) Analyst
3 81 (7.25%) Developer
4 73 (6.53%) Lead
5 50 (4.47%) Architect
6 49 (4.38%) Support Engineer
7 48 (4.29%) Consultant
8 44 (3.94%) IT Support
9 38 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
10 33 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (2.95%) Software Engineer
11 32 (2.86%) Senior Manager
12 31 (2.77%) IT Manager
13 28 (2.50%) Senior Developer
14 25 (2.24%) Applications Developer
15 24 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (2.06%) Technical Support
17 22 (1.97%) Network Engineer
17 22 (1.97%) Solutions Architect
18 21 (1.88%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.83%) .NET
2 36 (3.22%) React
3 35 (3.13%) REST
4 31 (2.77%) .NET Core
5 26 (2.33%) JSON
6 25 (2.24%) HTML
6 25 (2.24%) XML
7 23 (2.06%) Node.js
8 22 (1.97%) CSS
9 20 (1.79%) Middleware
10 19 (1.70%) EDI
11 13 (1.16%) ASP.NET
11 13 (1.16%) Next.js
11 13 (1.16%) RESTful
11 13 (1.16%) SOAP
12 12 (1.07%) OAuth
13 11 (0.98%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.98%) AWS CDK
14 10 (0.89%) OpenID
14 10 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 61 (5.46%) Onboarding
2 47 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 46 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (3.76%) Social Media
6 37 (3.31%) Data Centre
7 34 (3.04%) Driving Licence
8 32 (2.86%) Cloud Native
9 26 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.70%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 15 (1.34%) Blog
14 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.07%) Life Science
16 11 (0.98%) NHS
17 10 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (0.89%) PMI
17 10 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.57%) Windows
2 58 (5.19%) Linux
3 36 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (0.63%) CentOS
5 7 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.54%) Debian
6 6 (0.54%) Unix
6 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.45%) Android
8 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.36%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.27%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.089%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
2 249 (22.27%) Agile
3 232 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 142 (12.70%) Analytics
5 137 (12.25%) Decision-Making
6 123 (11.00%) Mentoring
7 115 (10.29%) DevOps
8 114 (10.20%) AI
9 108 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 103 (9.21%) Computer Science
11 99 (8.86%) CI/CD
12 98 (8.77%) Roadmaps
13 97 (8.68%) Service Delivery
14 94 (8.41%) Validation
15 91 (8.14%) Project Delivery
16 86 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
17 85 (7.60%) CRM
17 85 (7.60%) Project Management
18 84 (7.51%) Coaching
19 81 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 127 (11.36%) Python
2 119 (10.64%) SQL
3 51 (4.56%) C#
4 44 (3.94%) Java
5 41 (3.67%) JavaScript
6 40 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 26 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.43%) Bash
9 13 (1.16%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.81%) C
11 7 (0.63%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.63%) VBA
12 6 (0.54%) Bicep
12 6 (0.54%) C++
12 6 (0.54%) Go
12 6 (0.54%) PHP
12 6 (0.54%) Scala
12 6 (0.54%) VB
12 6 (0.54%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 209 (18.69%) Degree
2 121 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 48 (4.29%) DBS Check
4 48 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.40%) CISSP
7 34 (3.04%) ACCA
7 34 (3.04%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.68%) CIMA
10 27 (2.42%) PMI Certification
11 24 (2.15%) PMP
12 23 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (1.79%) CCNP
14 19 (1.70%) CCIE
15 18 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (1.25%) CISM
16 14 (1.25%) HND
17 13 (1.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 65 (5.81%) QA
3 43 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.04%) GDPR
4 34 (3.04%) PMO
5 24 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (2.06%) NIST
7 12 (1.07%) GAAP
7 12 (1.07%) TickIT
8 11 (0.98%) SLA
9 10 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 10 (0.89%) Solvency II
10 9 (0.81%) EU AI Act
10 9 (0.81%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.81%) PSD2
11 7 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.77%) Docker
3 16 (1.43%) ProxySG
4 14 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.16%) Firmware
6 9 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.27%) vSphere
10 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.089%) pfSense
11 1 (0.089%) XenApp
11 1 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.11%) Terraform
3 31 (2.77%) Ansible
4 18 (1.61%) SCCM
5 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.98%) Puppet
7 6 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.45%) Argo
8 5 (0.45%) Grafana
8 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.36%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.36%) Plesk
9 4 (0.36%) Rancher
9 4 (0.36%) ServiceCenter
9 4 (0.36%) yum
10 3 (0.27%) Kibana
11 2 (0.18%) cPanel
Vendors
1 238 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.10%) Google
3 37 (3.31%) Salesforce
4 33 (2.95%) Cisco
5 32 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.15%) VMware
7 20 (1.79%) Adobe
8 17 (1.52%) Infoblox
8 17 (1.52%) Remedy
9 16 (1.43%) Blue Coat
9 16 (1.43%) CheckPoint
9 16 (1.43%) F5
9 16 (1.43%) Motorola
9 16 (1.43%) SAP
9 16 (1.43%) SolarWinds
10 13 (1.16%) Oracle
11 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.98%) Pardot
13 10 (0.89%) Databricks
14 9 (0.81%) HubSpot