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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 92 89
Rank change year-on-year -45 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 942 1,425 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.57% 3.22% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 3.48% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 610 726 1,516
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,125 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.83% -12.92%
75th Percentile £63,438 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,776 £96,607 £87,500
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 47,536 40,950 58,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.41% 92.48% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29,120 20,127 46,241
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,250
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 £103,300 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 18 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 18 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 -59 274 £60,000 -7.48% 147
South East -34 193 £40,750 -37.31% 139
North of England -54 168 £45,000 -10.00% 103
Midlands -41 109 £41,750 -22.33% 73
North West -14 100 £47,386 -13.52% 58
South West -6 81 £47,500 -10.80% 50
East of England -27 77 £55,000 +7.91% 35
West Midlands -42 59 £30,000 -45.45% 45
East Midlands -15 50 £42,500 -12.82% 27
Yorkshire -50 46 £42,500 -10.53% 31
North East -13 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 40 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.87%) Confluence
4 13 (1.38%) WordPress
5 9 (0.96%) 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 58 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.49%) 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 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
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%) 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
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 198 (21.02%) Azure
2 111 (11.78%) AWS
3 101 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (8.28%) Power Platform
5 44 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 38 (4.03%) GCP
7 36 (3.82%) SaaS
8 25 (2.65%) Azure AI
9 24 (2.55%) Amazon SageMaker
10 23 (2.44%) Vertex AI
11 19 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.80%) Serverless
13 16 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.59%) GitHub
15 14 (1.49%) OpenShift
16 13 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (1.38%) Google Analytics
17 12 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
18 11 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
19 9 (0.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.41%) Firewall
2 37 (3.93%) Wireless
3 36 (3.82%) VPN
4 33 (3.50%) VLAN
5 32 (3.40%) DNS
6 27 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 27 (2.87%) WAN
7 25 (2.65%) DHCP
7 25 (2.65%) LAN
8 22 (2.34%) Network Security
9 18 (1.91%) BGP
10 13 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
10 13 (1.38%) OSPF
11 12 (1.27%) Broadband
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.11%) 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 (1.49%) 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 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 9 (0.96%) 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 (2.02%) 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%) Selenium
7 4 (0.42%) TestRail
7 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.21%) Postman
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%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 456 (48.41%) Social Skills
2 234 (24.84%) Finance
3 182 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (14.54%) Marketing
5 97 (10.30%) Organisational Skills
6 83 (8.81%) Law
7 58 (6.16%) Telecoms
8 54 (5.73%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.31%) Aerospace
10 44 (4.67%) Legal
11 42 (4.46%) Retail
12 40 (4.25%) Banking
13 35 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (3.72%) Military
14 31 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (2.97%) Billing
17 26 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
18 22 (2.34%) Manufacturing
19 20 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (11.78%) Analyst
2 96 (10.19%) Senior
3 67 (7.11%) Developer
4 66 (7.01%) Lead
5 59 (6.26%) IT Support
6 43 (4.56%) Architect
6 43 (4.56%) Support Engineer
7 41 (4.35%) Business Analyst
8 33 (3.50%) Consultant
9 31 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
10 30 (3.18%) Account Manager
11 29 (3.08%) Digital Analyst
12 26 (2.76%) Data Analyst
13 25 (2.65%) Senior Manager
14 24 (2.55%) Coordinator
14 24 (2.55%) Digital Business Analyst
14 24 (2.55%) Junior
15 23 (2.44%) Administrator
15 23 (2.44%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.52%) .NET
2 45 (4.78%) HTML
3 27 (2.87%) React
4 21 (2.23%) .NET Core
5 19 (2.02%) CSS
6 16 (1.70%) RESTful
7 14 (1.49%) 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 (0.96%) JSON
11 9 (0.96%) REST
11 9 (0.96%) 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 71 (7.54%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.72%) Social Media
5 34 (3.61%) Driving Licence
6 30 (3.18%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 22 (2.34%) Life Science
9 21 (2.23%) Cloud Native
9 21 (2.23%) Pharmacovigilance
10 18 (1.91%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.80%) FMCG
12 14 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 11 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.96%) Blog
15 9 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.96%) PKI
16 8 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.19%) Windows
2 38 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 36 (3.82%) Linux
4 10 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.96%) 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 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.11%) Rocky
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
2 226 (23.99%) Agile
3 176 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 122 (12.95%) Analytics
5 100 (10.62%) AI
6 92 (9.77%) Computer Science
7 87 (9.24%) Decision-Making
8 86 (9.13%) Service Delivery
9 81 (8.60%) Mentoring
10 80 (8.49%) DevOps
11 78 (8.28%) Project Management
12 77 (8.17%) Project Delivery
13 76 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 74 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
14 74 (7.86%) Coaching
15 73 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
16 72 (7.64%) CRM
17 70 (7.43%) Customer Service
18 68 (7.22%) Process Improvement
19 65 (6.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 102 (10.83%) Python
2 95 (10.08%) SQL
3 51 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 42 (4.46%) C#
4 42 (4.46%) Java
5 34 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.70%) Bash
7 13 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.96%) C++
8 9 (0.96%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.85%) VBA
10 6 (0.64%) Go
10 6 (0.64%) Scala
10 6 (0.64%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.42%) Bicep
11 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.42%) PHP
12 2 (0.21%) ABAP
12 2 (0.21%) C
12 2 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 197 (20.91%) Degree
2 112 (11.89%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 50 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (4.67%) DV Cleared
6 38 (4.03%) DBS Check
7 35 (3.72%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (2.65%) CISSP
10 20 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.80%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.59%) PMP
13 14 (1.49%) CCIE
13 14 (1.49%) CCNP
14 13 (1.38%) CISM
15 12 (1.27%) HND
16 9 (0.96%) HNC
17 8 (0.85%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.85%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.54%) QA
2 54 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 42 (4.46%) GDPR
5 41 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.55%) PMO
7 23 (2.44%) EU AI Act
8 21 (2.23%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.23%) PSD2
8 21 (2.23%) Solvency II
9 17 (1.80%) NIST
10 15 (1.59%) SLA
11 14 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 7 (0.74%) GRC
14 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.64%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.53%) ARP4761
16 4 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 78 (8.28%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.44%) Docker
2 23 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 18 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.27%) ProxySG
5 6 (0.64%) Firmware
5 6 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.21%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
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 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.72%) Terraform
3 24 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (2.23%) Ansible
5 10 (1.06%) Puppet
6 9 (0.96%) 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
1 182 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.63%) Google
3 33 (3.50%) Cisco
3 33 (3.50%) Salesforce
4 27 (2.87%) VMware
5 23 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.91%) Oracle
6 18 (1.91%) SAP
7 15 (1.59%) SolarWinds
8 13 (1.38%) Adobe
8 13 (1.38%) Infoblox
9 12 (1.27%) Blue Coat
9 12 (1.27%) CheckPoint
9 12 (1.27%) F5
9 12 (1.27%) Motorola
10 10 (1.06%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.06%) Veeam
11 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.74%) BT
11 7 (0.74%) HubSpot