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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 84 102
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 +23
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,693 1,514 1,773
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.75% 3.46% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.90% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,054 737 994
10th Percentile £28,312 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,775 £37,500 £39,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £94,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%

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 71,000 38,870 59,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.37% 88.85% 80.99%
Number of salaries quoted 50,434 22,497 37,418
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,460
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.59% -8.94%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -46 417 £65,000 - 1,022
North of England +41 349 £45,497 -5.21% 449
South East -14 337 £47,500 +4.40% 305
Midlands -4 266 £40,500 -4.71% 174
North West +39 218 £48,500 +7.78% 296
South West -28 191 £55,000 -4.35% 304
West Midlands -26 153 £44,241 -12.83% 113
East Midlands +16 112 £31,750 -25.29% 61
East of England -50 105 £47,500 +35.71% 135
Yorkshire +11 90 £42,500 -27.35% 111
North East -33 41 £56,250 +85.95% 48
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 78 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.12%) Confluence
4 15 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.71%) CMS
5 12 (0.71%) WordPress
6 9 (0.53%) SAS
7 8 (0.47%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) Gentran
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) Luigi
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 98 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.65%) Revit
5 10 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.41%) InDesign
6 7 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.41%) Simulink
7 5 (0.30%) Fusion 360
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.24%) CapCut
8 4 (0.24%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.18%) Blender
9 3 (0.18%) Maya
9 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.18%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 26 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.059%) FastStats
8 1 (0.059%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.059%) Primavera
8 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.059%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 258 (15.24%) Azure
2 188 (11.10%) AWS
3 175 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 153 (9.04%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.96%) SaaS
6 63 (3.72%) GCP
7 60 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.54%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.36%) Serverless
10 35 (2.07%) GitHub
11 29 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (1.59%) Google Analytics
14 25 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 21 (1.24%) OCI
15 21 (1.24%) OneDrive
15 21 (1.24%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (0.95%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.31%) Firewall
2 49 (2.89%) DNS
3 37 (2.19%) Network Security
4 36 (2.13%) VPN
5 35 (2.07%) DHCP
6 34 (2.01%) TCP/IP
7 30 (1.77%) WAN
8 27 (1.59%) HTTP
8 27 (1.59%) VLAN
9 23 (1.36%) LAN
10 20 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (1.06%) Wireless
12 15 (0.89%) Broadband
13 14 (0.83%) BGP
14 11 (0.65%) VoIP
15 9 (0.53%) Internet
16 7 (0.41%) SNMP
17 6 (0.35%) IPsec
17 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (7.68%) Power BI
2 57 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 35 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 25 (1.48%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (1.42%) Tableau
6 23 (1.36%) Big Data
7 20 (1.18%) Redis
8 19 (1.12%) Metadata
9 17 (1.00%) GIS
9 17 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.89%) Semantic Layer
11 14 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.77%) MySQL
13 11 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.65%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.65%) Power Query
14 7 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 81 (4.78%) Git
2 64 (3.78%) JIRA
3 33 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.89%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Postman
6 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.30%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.30%) MSI
9 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.24%) Maven
9 4 (0.24%) Storybook
10 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.18%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) MSTest
11 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 776 (45.84%) Social Skills
2 383 (22.62%) Finance
3 305 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
5 161 (9.51%) Marketing
6 140 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 122 (7.21%) Public Sector
8 108 (6.38%) Aerospace
9 101 (5.97%) Legal
10 80 (4.73%) Law
11 76 (4.49%) Manufacturing
12 72 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (4.25%) Retail
13 68 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
14 52 (3.07%) Electronics
15 46 (2.72%) Banking
15 46 (2.72%) Telecoms
16 29 (1.71%) Advertising
17 27 (1.59%) Local Government
18 22 (1.30%) Billing
Job Titles
1 226 (13.35%) Senior
2 159 (9.39%) Developer
3 152 (8.98%) Analyst
4 133 (7.86%) Lead
5 68 (4.02%) IT Support
6 61 (3.60%) Consultant
6 61 (3.60%) Software Engineer
7 47 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (2.60%) IT Manager
9 43 (2.54%) Development Manager
10 42 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 42 (2.48%) Support Engineer
10 42 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
11 41 (2.42%) Senior Developer
11 41 (2.42%) Software Developer
12 40 (2.36%) Business Development Manager
12 40 (2.36%) Business Manager
13 38 (2.24%) Architect
14 36 (2.13%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.08%) Node.js
2 73 (4.31%) REST
3 56 (3.31%) Terraform
4 54 (3.19%) HTML
5 53 (3.13%) .NET
6 43 (2.54%) CSS
7 34 (2.01%) React
8 31 (1.83%) Vue
9 25 (1.48%) JSON
10 24 (1.42%) RESTful
11 23 (1.36%) SOAP
12 22 (1.30%) AngularJS
13 20 (1.18%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.18%) Middleware
14 18 (1.06%) EDI
15 17 (1.00%) XML
16 16 (0.95%) .NET Framework
17 15 (0.89%) Kafka
18 14 (0.83%) OAuth
19 13 (0.77%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 101 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 97 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 77 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.43%) Driving Licence
5 59 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.84%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.19%) Social Media
8 32 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 30 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.42%) Blog
11 23 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.06%) NHS
14 17 (1.00%) Analogue Electronics
14 17 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 16 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 121 (7.15%) Windows
2 74 (4.37%) Linux
3 49 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
5 11 (0.65%) Unix
6 9 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.41%) CentOS
9 6 (0.35%) Debian
9 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Android
11 3 (0.18%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (32.13%) Problem-Solving
2 507 (29.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 357 (21.09%) Agile
4 253 (14.94%) Decision-Making
5 207 (12.23%) Analytics
6 197 (11.64%) Customer Service
7 194 (11.46%) AI
8 176 (10.40%) Mentoring
9 173 (10.22%) CI/CD
10 170 (10.04%) Roadmaps
11 169 (9.98%) Service Delivery
12 163 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 160 (9.45%) CRM
14 151 (8.92%) Project Delivery
15 141 (8.33%) Project Management
16 139 (8.21%) DevOps
17 135 (7.97%) Collaborative Culture
18 127 (7.50%) Validation
19 125 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
19 125 (7.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 208 (12.29%) SQL
2 169 (9.98%) Python
3 100 (5.91%) JavaScript
4 75 (4.43%) Java
5 69 (4.08%) C#
6 66 (3.90%) TypeScript
7 49 (2.89%) C
8 37 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.42%) PHP
10 21 (1.24%) VBA
11 19 (1.12%) C++
12 16 (0.95%) Embedded C
13 15 (0.89%) ABAP
14 13 (0.77%) MATLAB
15 12 (0.71%) Bash
16 11 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.53%) Bicep
18 8 (0.47%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.41%) VB
20 6 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 290 (17.13%) Degree
2 191 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 85 (5.02%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.19%) DV Cleared
5 50 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (2.60%) ACCA
8 43 (2.54%) DBS Check
9 36 (2.13%) CIMA
10 31 (1.83%) CISSP
11 27 (1.59%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.30%) HND
13 21 (1.24%) PMI Certification
14 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (1.06%) HNC
16 16 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (0.95%) CISM
16 16 (0.95%) PMP
17 15 (0.89%) CEH
18 14 (0.83%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.44%) QA
2 94 (5.55%) Accessibility
3 89 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.95%) GDPR
5 32 (1.89%) PMO
6 31 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.65%) GAAP
8 24 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (1.30%) SLA
10 21 (1.24%) NIST
11 18 (1.06%) WCAG
12 12 (0.71%) TickIT
13 10 (0.59%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.53%) NCSC
15 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 5 (0.30%) PERC
18 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
System Software
1 71 (4.19%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.13%) Docker
3 20 (1.18%) Firmware
3 20 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.30%) ClearTrust
7 4 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.059%) KVM
9 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (1.83%) Ansible
4 13 (0.77%) SCCM
5 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.47%) Puppet
7 6 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.24%) Grafana
9 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 3 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 3 (0.18%) Plesk
10 3 (0.18%) WhatsUp Gold
11 2 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.12%) Kibana
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.12%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 373 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.54%) Google
3 45 (2.66%) Salesforce
4 40 (2.36%) Oracle
5 39 (2.30%) SAP
6 34 (2.01%) Cisco
7 31 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.77%) VMware
9 28 (1.65%) Adobe
10 24 (1.42%) Databricks
11 19 (1.12%) HubSpot
12 17 (1.00%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.83%) iManage
14 13 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.71%) HP
16 11 (0.65%) IBM
16 11 (0.65%) Remedy
16 11 (0.65%) Sage
16 11 (0.65%) SolarWinds
16 11 (0.65%) YouTube