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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 78 92
Rank change year-on-year -42 +14 +34
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,269 1,478 2,478
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 3.76% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 4.06% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 765 661 1,729
10th Percentile £30,204 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,818 £41,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,200 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,112 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 59,579 36,425 76,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.93% 92.76% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41,667 19,839 55,940
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -47 375 £65,000 - 126
North of England +16 258 £53,500 +7.00% 127
South East -31 255 £50,000 -3.85% 124
Midlands -7 188 £42,500 -19.05% 102
North West +31 153 £47,500 -5.00% 78
West Midlands -39 94 £45,000 -18.18% 52
East Midlands +9 93 £40,000 -5.88% 50
South West -40 89 £38,738 -32.63% 45
Yorkshire -28 75 £60,425 +3.29% 32
East of England -66 72 £55,000 +57.14% 44
North East -28 30 £57,500 +64.29% 17
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 43 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.26%) WordPress
4 15 (1.18%) CMS
5 14 (1.10%) Confluence
6 9 (0.71%) SAS
7 7 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.47%) Apache
8 6 (0.47%) IIS
9 4 (0.32%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.16%) Drupal
10 2 (0.16%) Gentran
10 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
Applications
1 60 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.39%) Fusion 360
8 4 (0.32%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.32%) Simulink
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.24%) Blender
9 3 (0.24%) InDesign
9 3 (0.24%) Maya
9 3 (0.24%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.16%) Trello
11 1 (0.079%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.26%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) SAP HR
3 5 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.079%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.079%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.079%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.079%) Shopify
6 1 (0.079%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 235 (18.52%) Azure
2 168 (13.24%) AWS
3 117 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (8.75%) Power Platform
5 63 (4.96%) GCP
6 56 (4.41%) SaaS
7 45 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (3.55%) Entra ID
8 35 (2.76%) Serverless
9 29 (2.29%) GitHub
10 26 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (1.97%) Google Analytics
12 24 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.42%) Figma
14 16 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.18%) Boomi
16 12 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 12 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 11 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.67%) Firewall
2 36 (2.84%) Network Security
3 35 (2.76%) VLAN
4 34 (2.68%) DNS
4 34 (2.68%) VPN
5 31 (2.44%) WAN
6 28 (2.21%) DHCP
7 26 (2.05%) Wireless
8 24 (1.89%) LAN
8 24 (1.89%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.58%) Broadband
9 20 (1.58%) HTTP
10 19 (1.50%) BGP
11 16 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
12 15 (1.18%) SNMP
13 14 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
13 14 (1.10%) EIGRP
13 14 (1.10%) OSPF
13 14 (1.10%) WAAS
13 14 (1.10%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (8.04%) Power BI
2 30 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.89%) Tableau
4 23 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (1.73%) BigQuery
6 16 (1.26%) GIS
6 16 (1.26%) MySQL
7 15 (1.18%) Metadata
7 15 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.10%) Big Data
9 13 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
11 11 (0.87%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.55%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.39%) Power Query
13 5 (0.39%) Redis
14 4 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 61 (4.81%) Git
2 44 (3.47%) JIRA
3 30 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.26%) GitLab
5 9 (0.71%) Postman
6 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.24%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.24%) Selenium
8 3 (0.24%) Subversion
9 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.16%) MSTest
9 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.079%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.079%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.079%) Storybook
10 1 (0.079%) TestRail
General
1 552 (43.50%) Social Skills
2 323 (25.45%) Finance
3 253 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (10.17%) Marketing
5 121 (9.54%) Organisational Skills
6 96 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 92 (7.25%) Legal
8 89 (7.01%) Public Sector
9 77 (6.07%) Law
10 59 (4.65%) Aerospace
11 56 (4.41%) Retail
12 53 (4.18%) Telecoms
13 52 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
14 37 (2.92%) Banking
14 37 (2.92%) Manufacturing
15 30 (2.36%) Electronics
16 29 (2.29%) Local Government
17 24 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
18 21 (1.65%) Advertising
18 21 (1.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 178 (14.03%) Senior
2 118 (9.30%) Analyst
3 91 (7.17%) Developer
4 82 (6.46%) Lead
5 59 (4.65%) Consultant
6 46 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
7 44 (3.47%) Architect
7 44 (3.47%) Support Engineer
8 43 (3.39%) Software Engineer
9 40 (3.15%) IT Support
10 39 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 36 (2.84%) IT Manager
12 34 (2.68%) Senior Manager
13 27 (2.13%) Senior Developer
14 26 (2.05%) Business Analyst
15 23 (1.81%) Technical Manager
16 22 (1.73%) Financial Controller
16 22 (1.73%) Network Engineer
17 21 (1.65%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.78%) REST
2 47 (3.70%) Node.js
3 46 (3.62%) .NET
4 37 (2.92%) React
5 28 (2.21%) HTML
5 28 (2.21%) JSON
6 26 (2.05%) XML
7 24 (1.89%) .NET Core
8 23 (1.81%) CSS
9 18 (1.42%) EDI
10 17 (1.34%) Middleware
10 17 (1.34%) Vue
11 16 (1.26%) SOAP
12 15 (1.18%) Next.js
13 13 (1.02%) AWS CDK
13 13 (1.02%) OAuth
14 12 (0.95%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.95%) RESTful
15 9 (0.71%) OpenID
15 9 (0.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (5.67%) Onboarding
2 62 (4.89%) Management Information System
3 60 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 43 (3.39%) Driving Licence
6 35 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.68%) Social Media
8 27 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 24 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 24 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.58%) Blog
12 16 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.10%) NHS
13 14 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 11 (0.87%) CCTV
14 11 (0.87%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 107 (8.43%) Windows
2 60 (4.73%) Linux
3 41 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.55%) Android
6 7 (0.55%) CentOS
6 7 (0.55%) Unix
7 6 (0.47%) Debian
8 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.32%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.24%) VMS
9 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.079%) Rocky
11 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (34.28%) Problem-Solving
2 293 (23.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 270 (21.28%) Agile
4 177 (13.95%) Decision-Making
5 158 (12.45%) Mentoring
6 156 (12.29%) Analytics
7 144 (11.35%) Roadmaps
8 138 (10.87%) AI
9 135 (10.64%) Service Delivery
10 125 (9.85%) CI/CD
11 119 (9.38%) DevOps
12 115 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 108 (8.51%) Validation
14 106 (8.35%) Customer Service
14 106 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
15 105 (8.27%) Computer Science
16 101 (7.96%) Coaching
17 100 (7.88%) Project Management
18 97 (7.64%) CRM
19 95 (7.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 156 (12.29%) Python
2 153 (12.06%) SQL
3 57 (4.49%) C#
4 50 (3.94%) Java
5 49 (3.86%) JavaScript
6 39 (3.07%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 20 (1.58%) C
8 19 (1.50%) C++
9 15 (1.18%) PHP
10 14 (1.10%) Bash
10 14 (1.10%) VBA
11 13 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 12 (0.95%) Embedded C
13 10 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.71%) VB
15 8 (0.63%) Bicep
16 7 (0.55%) Scala
17 5 (0.39%) Go
17 5 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 223 (17.57%) Degree
2 121 (9.54%) Security Cleared
3 53 (4.18%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.86%) DBS Check
5 44 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.23%) ACCA
7 39 (3.07%) CISSP
8 36 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (2.76%) CIMA
10 30 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.97%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.89%) PMI Certification
13 22 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (1.65%) PMP
15 19 (1.50%) CCNP
16 16 (1.26%) CCIE
17 15 (1.18%) HND
18 14 (1.10%) CISM
19 12 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.62%) QA
2 80 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 61 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (3.15%) PMO
6 31 (2.44%) GDPR
7 24 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (1.81%) NIST
9 22 (1.73%) GAAP
10 13 (1.02%) SLA
11 12 (0.95%) TickIT
12 10 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 7 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
14 7 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.55%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.55%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.55%) WCAG
15 5 (0.39%) Def Stans
System Software
1 57 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.36%) Docker
3 21 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.10%) ProxySG
5 13 (1.02%) Firmware
5 13 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.32%) ClearTrust
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.16%) vSphere
10 1 (0.079%) XenApp
10 1 (0.079%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 51 (4.02%) Terraform
3 29 (2.29%) Ansible
4 19 (1.50%) SCCM
5 14 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.55%) Puppet
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.32%) Argo
9 4 (0.32%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.32%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.24%) Grafana
10 3 (0.24%) Kibana
10 3 (0.24%) Plesk
10 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.24%) Rancher
10 3 (0.24%) yum
11 2 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 261 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.18%) Google
3 45 (3.55%) Salesforce
4 34 (2.68%) Cisco
5 32 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 23 (1.81%) VMware
7 19 (1.50%) Adobe
8 18 (1.42%) Remedy
8 18 (1.42%) SAP
9 15 (1.18%) SolarWinds
10 14 (1.10%) Blue Coat
10 14 (1.10%) CheckPoint
10 14 (1.10%) Databricks
10 14 (1.10%) F5
10 14 (1.10%) Infoblox
10 14 (1.10%) Motorola
10 14 (1.10%) Oracle
11 12 (0.95%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.79%) HubSpot
12 10 (0.79%) Pardot