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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 88 93
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +34
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,364 1,509 2,369
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.59% 3.59% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.94% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 828 687 1,637
10th Percentile £29,084 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,875 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -15.63%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -13.51%

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 63,394 38,334 75,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.81% 91.09% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,779 21,614 54,535
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,890 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -52 381 £65,000 - 281
South East -20 290 £50,000 +6.95% 168
North of England +14 262 £51,696 +3.39% 148
Midlands -12 209 £42,500 -18.09% 116
North West +14 157 £46,384 -7.23% 85
South West -48 106 £38,738 -35.44% 80
West Midlands -44 105 £45,000 -18.18% 66
East Midlands +22 103 £41,250 -2.94% 50
East of England -67 78 £55,000 +57.14% 60
Yorkshire -10 73 £60,000 +2.56% 40
North East -29 32 £57,500 +79.69% 24
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 57 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.32%) WordPress
4 14 (1.03%) CMS
4 14 (1.03%) Confluence
5 11 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.66%) SAS
7 7 (0.51%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) IIS
9 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.15%) Drupal
10 2 (0.15%) Gentran
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Luigi
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.073%) Appian
11 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.073%) OpenStack
Applications
1 66 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.37%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.37%) InDesign
7 5 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.29%) Simulink
9 3 (0.22%) Blender
9 3 (0.22%) Maya
9 3 (0.22%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.073%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.37%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.073%) FastStats
7 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 251 (18.40%) Azure
2 186 (13.64%) AWS
3 147 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (9.24%) Power Platform
5 72 (5.28%) GCP
6 71 (5.21%) SaaS
7 51 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 49 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.79%) Serverless
10 30 (2.20%) Google Analytics
11 27 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (1.98%) GitHub
12 23 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (1.32%) Figma
14 18 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.25%) Snowflake
16 16 (1.17%) OCI
17 15 (1.10%) Boomi
18 13 (0.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.16%) Firewall
2 48 (3.52%) DNS
3 42 (3.08%) VPN
4 41 (3.01%) Network Security
5 38 (2.79%) DHCP
5 38 (2.79%) VLAN
6 37 (2.71%) WAN
7 31 (2.27%) TCP/IP
8 28 (2.05%) LAN
9 26 (1.91%) Wireless
10 22 (1.61%) Broadband
11 21 (1.54%) BGP
11 21 (1.54%) HTTP
12 17 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (1.03%) SNMP
14 12 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.88%) OSPF
14 12 (0.88%) WAAS
14 12 (0.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.21%) Power BI
2 42 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.98%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (1.83%) Tableau
5 18 (1.32%) Big Data
6 17 (1.25%) GIS
6 17 (1.25%) MySQL
7 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.03%) Metadata
9 14 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
10 12 (0.88%) Redis
10 12 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (0.81%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.37%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 61 (4.47%) Git
2 47 (3.45%) JIRA
3 34 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.17%) GitLab
5 9 (0.66%) Postman
6 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.22%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.22%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) MSI
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.073%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.073%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.073%) TestRail
General
1 608 (44.57%) Social Skills
2 359 (26.32%) Finance
3 266 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.85%) Marketing
5 122 (8.94%) Organisational Skills
6 97 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (7.04%) Legal
8 90 (6.60%) Public Sector
9 78 (5.72%) Aerospace
10 77 (5.65%) Law
11 57 (4.18%) Retail
12 53 (3.89%) Telecoms
13 52 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (3.08%) Manufacturing
15 39 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (2.64%) Banking
17 31 (2.27%) Electronics
18 29 (2.13%) Local Government
19 28 (2.05%) Advertising
20 20 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 202 (14.81%) Senior
2 139 (10.19%) Analyst
3 108 (7.92%) Developer
4 96 (7.04%) Lead
5 63 (4.62%) Consultant
6 49 (3.59%) IT Support
6 49 (3.59%) Software Engineer
7 47 (3.45%) Support Engineer
8 45 (3.30%) Architect
8 45 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 45 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
9 42 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
10 41 (3.01%) Senior Manager
11 37 (2.71%) IT Manager
12 32 (2.35%) Business Analyst
13 29 (2.13%) Senior Developer
14 28 (2.05%) Network Engineer
15 27 (1.98%) IT Analyst
16 26 (1.91%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (1.83%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.69%) Node.js
2 58 (4.25%) REST
3 44 (3.23%) .NET
4 40 (2.93%) React
5 37 (2.71%) HTML
6 28 (2.05%) CSS
6 28 (2.05%) JSON
7 26 (1.91%) XML
8 25 (1.83%) Vue
9 21 (1.54%) .NET Core
10 20 (1.47%) SOAP
11 18 (1.32%) Middleware
12 16 (1.17%) EDI
12 16 (1.17%) Next.js
13 15 (1.10%) OAuth
14 13 (0.95%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.95%) AWS CDK
14 13 (0.95%) RESTful
15 9 (0.66%) .NET Framework
15 9 (0.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.01%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 62 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 57 (4.18%) Driving Licence
5 52 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.49%) Social Media
7 33 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 30 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.98%) Blog
10 21 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.17%) NHS
13 15 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.03%) EPoS
15 13 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 118 (8.65%) Windows
2 73 (5.35%) Linux
3 48 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.59%) CentOS
6 8 (0.59%) Unix
7 7 (0.51%) Debian
8 6 (0.44%) Android
9 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (34.68%) Problem-Solving
2 346 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 302 (22.14%) Agile
4 199 (14.59%) Decision-Making
5 172 (12.61%) Analytics
6 163 (11.95%) Mentoring
7 160 (11.73%) Roadmaps
8 157 (11.51%) AI
9 145 (10.63%) CI/CD
10 144 (10.56%) Service Delivery
11 125 (9.16%) Customer Service
12 119 (8.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 119 (8.72%) Validation
13 118 (8.65%) DevOps
14 116 (8.50%) Project Delivery
14 116 (8.50%) Project Management
15 112 (8.21%) Computer Science
16 108 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
17 103 (7.55%) Collaborative Culture
18 102 (7.48%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 178 (13.05%) SQL
2 168 (12.32%) Python
3 66 (4.84%) JavaScript
4 61 (4.47%) Java
5 60 (4.40%) C#
6 52 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 26 (1.91%) C
9 20 (1.47%) VBA
10 19 (1.39%) C++
10 19 (1.39%) PHP
11 15 (1.10%) Bash
12 14 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.95%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.73%) ABAP
14 10 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.66%) VB
16 8 (0.59%) Bicep
17 5 (0.37%) Embedded C++
17 5 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 248 (18.18%) Degree
2 139 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 60 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.15%) ACCA
6 42 (3.08%) DBS Check
7 41 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.64%) CIMA
9 35 (2.57%) CISSP
10 31 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.54%) PMI Certification
14 20 (1.47%) CCNP
15 17 (1.25%) PMP
16 16 (1.17%) CISM
17 14 (1.03%) CCIE
17 14 (1.03%) HND
18 12 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.52%) QA
2 76 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 67 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.79%) PMO
6 29 (2.13%) GDPR
7 27 (1.98%) GAAP
8 25 (1.83%) NIST
9 20 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.95%) SLA
11 12 (0.88%) TickIT
12 9 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
13 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 8 (0.59%) WCAG
14 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.37%) Def Stans
System Software
1 64 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.35%) Docker
3 25 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.17%) Firmware
5 14 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (0.88%) ProxySG
7 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.37%) ClearTrust
9 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
11 1 (0.073%) XenApp
11 1 (0.073%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.59%) Terraform
3 33 (2.42%) Ansible
4 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.39%) SCCM
6 9 (0.66%) Puppet
7 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.29%) Grafana
9 4 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.22%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 298 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.77%) Google
3 42 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.86%) Cisco
5 31 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 28 (2.05%) Oracle
7 26 (1.91%) SAP
8 24 (1.76%) VMware
9 19 (1.39%) Adobe
10 18 (1.32%) Remedy
11 16 (1.17%) Databricks
12 15 (1.10%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.10%) SolarWinds
13 13 (0.95%) iManage
14 12 (0.88%) Blue Coat
14 12 (0.88%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.88%) F5
14 12 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.88%) Infoblox
14 12 (0.88%) Motorola