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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 90 89
Rank change year-on-year -47 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 943 1,418 2,079
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.59% 3.19% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 3.45% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 605 723 1,538
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,660
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +16.14% -13.90%
75th Percentile £62,500 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,776 £96,821 £87,875
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -20.83%

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 47,098 41,055 58,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.42% 92.38% 88.18%
Number of salaries quoted 28,809 20,170 46,430
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -56 272 £60,000 -7.48% 163
South East -31 193 £40,750 -37.31% 159
North of England -45 165 £45,000 -10.10% 96
Midlands -41 116 £41,750 -22.69% 73
North West -16 98 £46,136 -15.80% 50
South West -10 81 £47,500 -10.80% 57
East of England -29 77 £55,000 +7.91% 40
West Midlands -34 67 £30,000 -45.45% 43
East Midlands -16 49 £42,500 -15.00% 29
Yorkshire -58 45 £42,500 -12.82% 32
North East -8 22 £47,875 +36.79% 16
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 39 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.86%) Confluence
4 13 (1.38%) WordPress
5 9 (0.95%) CMS
6 8 (0.85%) IIS
7 7 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.42%) Apache
8 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.85%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.42%) SketchUp
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.21%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 194 (20.57%) Azure
2 110 (11.66%) AWS
3 100 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 44 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 36 (3.82%) GCP
6 36 (3.82%) SaaS
7 25 (2.65%) Azure AI
8 24 (2.55%) Amazon SageMaker
9 21 (2.23%) Vertex AI
10 18 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (1.70%) Serverless
12 15 (1.59%) GitHub
13 14 (1.48%) OpenShift
14 13 (1.38%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
18 9 (0.95%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.30%) Firewall
2 37 (3.92%) Wireless
3 36 (3.82%) VPN
4 33 (3.50%) VLAN
5 32 (3.39%) DNS
6 27 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 27 (2.86%) WAN
7 25 (2.65%) DHCP
7 25 (2.65%) LAN
8 22 (2.33%) Network Security
9 18 (1.91%) BGP
10 13 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
10 13 (1.38%) OSPF
11 12 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.27%) Cisco Wireless
11 12 (1.27%) EIGRP
11 12 (1.27%) SNMP
11 12 (1.27%) WAAS
11 12 (1.27%) Wireless Security
12 9 (0.95%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.10%) Power BI
2 25 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.55%) Tableau
4 18 (1.91%) Looker
5 15 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (1.17%) Big Data
8 11 (1.17%) MySQL
8 11 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.95%) Hadoop
9 9 (0.95%) Power Query
10 8 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.74%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.74%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.64%) Metadata
13 5 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 39 (4.14%) Git
2 38 (4.03%) JIRA
3 19 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.53%) Subversion
7 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.42%) TestRail
7 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.32%) Selenium
9 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.21%) Storybook
10 1 (0.11%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.11%) gulp
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 457 (48.46%) Social Skills
2 234 (24.81%) Finance
3 187 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (15.38%) Marketing
5 95 (10.07%) Organisational Skills
6 82 (8.70%) Law
7 58 (6.15%) Telecoms
8 55 (5.83%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.30%) Aerospace
10 44 (4.67%) Legal
11 42 (4.45%) Retail
12 40 (4.24%) Banking
13 35 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (3.71%) Military
14 32 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (3.08%) Billing
17 26 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (2.33%) Manufacturing
19 19 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (11.88%) Analyst
2 93 (9.86%) Senior
3 70 (7.42%) Lead
4 66 (7.00%) Developer
5 58 (6.15%) IT Support
6 43 (4.56%) Architect
7 41 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 41 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 34 (3.61%) Consultant
9 30 (3.18%) Account Manager
9 30 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (3.18%) Systems Engineer
10 29 (3.08%) Digital Analyst
11 26 (2.76%) Data Analyst
12 25 (2.65%) Senior Manager
13 24 (2.55%) Coordinator
13 24 (2.55%) Digital Business Analyst
13 24 (2.55%) Junior
14 23 (2.44%) Administrator
15 22 (2.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.41%) .NET
2 45 (4.77%) HTML
3 26 (2.76%) React
4 20 (2.12%) .NET Core
5 19 (2.01%) CSS
6 16 (1.70%) RESTful
7 14 (1.48%) Middleware
8 13 (1.38%) AngularJS
9 11 (1.17%) Spring
10 10 (1.06%) Node.js
10 10 (1.06%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.95%) JSON
11 9 (0.95%) REST
11 9 (0.95%) XML
12 8 (0.85%) Kafka
12 8 (0.85%) OAuth
13 7 (0.74%) ASP.NET
14 6 (0.64%) .NET Framework
14 6 (0.64%) EDI
14 6 (0.64%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 80 (8.48%) Onboarding
2 54 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.71%) Driving Licence
4 35 (3.71%) Social Media
5 29 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.33%) Life Science
8 21 (2.23%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.23%) Pharmacovigilance
9 18 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.80%) FMCG
11 13 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 11 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.95%) Blog
14 9 (0.95%) PKI
15 8 (0.85%) NHS
15 8 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.18%) Windows
2 38 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 36 (3.82%) Linux
4 10 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.64%) Unix
8 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.42%) Android
9 4 (0.42%) CentOS
9 4 (0.42%) Debian
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.32%) AIX
10 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.11%) Rocky
11 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (29.80%) Problem-Solving
2 222 (23.54%) Agile
3 179 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 121 (12.83%) Analytics
5 98 (10.39%) AI
6 92 (9.76%) Computer Science
7 86 (9.12%) Service Delivery
8 84 (8.91%) Decision-Making
9 80 (8.48%) CRM
10 79 (8.38%) Coaching
10 79 (8.38%) DevOps
11 78 (8.27%) Project Management
12 77 (8.17%) Mentoring
13 76 (8.06%) Project Delivery
14 75 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 74 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
16 72 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
17 71 (7.53%) Customer Service
18 68 (7.21%) Process Improvement
19 65 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (10.60%) Python
2 95 (10.07%) SQL
3 51 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 41 (4.35%) C#
5 40 (4.24%) Java
6 34 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.70%) Bash
8 12 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.95%) C++
9 9 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.85%) VBA
11 6 (0.64%) Go
11 6 (0.64%) Scala
11 6 (0.64%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.42%) Bicep
12 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.42%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) ABAP
13 2 (0.21%) VB
13 2 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 206 (21.85%) Degree
2 111 (11.77%) Security Cleared
3 57 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 50 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (4.67%) DV Cleared
6 38 (4.03%) DBS Check
7 35 (3.71%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.55%) CISSP
10 20 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.70%) PMI Certification
13 14 (1.48%) CCIE
13 14 (1.48%) CCNP
13 14 (1.48%) PMP
14 13 (1.38%) CISM
15 12 (1.27%) HND
16 9 (0.95%) HNC
17 8 (0.85%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.85%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.42%) QA
2 54 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.51%) Accessibility
4 41 (4.35%) GDPR
4 41 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.55%) PMO
6 23 (2.44%) EU AI Act
7 21 (2.23%) HIPAA
7 21 (2.23%) PSD2
7 21 (2.23%) Solvency II
8 17 (1.80%) NIST
9 15 (1.59%) SLA
10 13 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 7 (0.74%) GRC
13 6 (0.64%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.53%) ARP4761
14 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.42%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 77 (8.17%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.44%) Docker
3 22 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 18 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.27%) ProxySG
6 5 (0.53%) Firmware
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.21%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) pfSense
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.11%) XenApp
8 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.71%) Terraform
3 24 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (2.23%) Ansible
5 10 (1.06%) Puppet
6 9 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.64%) Grafana
8 6 (0.64%) SCCM
9 5 (0.53%) Argo
9 5 (0.53%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.53%) Rancher
9 5 (0.53%) yum
10 4 (0.42%) Backup Exec
10 4 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.32%) cPanel
11 3 (0.32%) Netcool
11 3 (0.32%) Plesk
12 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 180 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.41%) Google
3 33 (3.50%) Cisco
4 32 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 27 (2.86%) VMware
6 23 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.91%) Oracle
7 18 (1.91%) SAP
8 15 (1.59%) SolarWinds
9 13 (1.38%) Adobe
9 13 (1.38%) Infoblox
10 12 (1.27%) Blue Coat
10 12 (1.27%) CheckPoint
10 12 (1.27%) F5
10 12 (1.27%) Motorola
11 10 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.06%) Veeam
12 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.74%) BT
12 7 (0.74%) Zoho