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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 78 93
Rank change year-on-year -63 +15 +11
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,052 1,349 2,248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.49% 3.69% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 3.96% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 639 785 1,635
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -16.67%

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 54,337 34,070 67,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.70% 93.20% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 34,149 20,338 52,300
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,844 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -48 338 £57,500 -11.54% 147
South East -26 216 £50,000 -14.16% 131
North of England -54 189 £47,271 -5.46% 121
Midlands -56 137 £42,500 -20.56% 91
North West -19 118 £48,750 -2.50% 76
East Midlands -25 76 £42,500 -10.53% 32
South West -34 67 £47,500 -13.64% 50
East of England -79 66 £55,000 +7.91% 34
West Midlands -80 61 £37,500 -31.82% 59
Yorkshire -62 54 £43,750 -9.81% 37
North East -22 17 £43,000 +22.86% 10
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 36 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.66%) Confluence
4 11 (1.05%) IIS
4 11 (1.05%) WordPress
5 9 (0.86%) CMS
5 9 (0.86%) SAS
6 6 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.48%) Apache
8 4 (0.38%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.19%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.19%) Simulink
7 2 (0.19%) SketchUp
8 1 (0.095%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.095%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.095%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.48%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.095%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.095%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.095%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.095%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.095%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.095%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 232 (22.05%) Azure
2 143 (13.59%) AWS
3 103 (9.79%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (8.65%) Power Platform
5 45 (4.28%) GCP
6 39 (3.71%) Entra ID
7 38 (3.61%) SaaS
8 30 (2.85%) Serverless
9 26 (2.47%) Vertex AI
10 24 (2.28%) Amazon SageMaker
10 24 (2.28%) Azure AI
11 23 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (1.43%) OpenShift
15 14 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
15 14 (1.33%) GitHub
15 14 (1.33%) Google Analytics
16 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (1.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.18%) Firewall
2 40 (3.80%) VPN
3 37 (3.52%) Wireless
4 35 (3.33%) VLAN
5 33 (3.14%) WAN
6 32 (3.04%) DNS
6 32 (3.04%) Network Security
7 29 (2.76%) LAN
8 27 (2.57%) TCP/IP
9 25 (2.38%) DHCP
10 21 (2.00%) BGP
11 17 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (1.62%) OSPF
12 16 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.52%) Cisco Wireless
12 16 (1.52%) EIGRP
12 16 (1.52%) SNMP
12 16 (1.52%) WAAS
12 16 (1.52%) Wireless Security
13 12 (1.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (7.51%) Power BI
2 27 (2.57%) SQL Server
2 27 (2.57%) Tableau
3 15 (1.43%) Looker
4 14 (1.33%) Big Data
4 14 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (1.24%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.14%) GIS
6 12 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 12 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (0.95%) BigQuery
7 10 (0.95%) Metadata
8 9 (0.86%) MySQL
9 7 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.38%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.38%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.38%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 52 (4.94%) Git
2 41 (3.90%) JIRA
3 24 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.62%) GitLab
5 6 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.48%) Postman
6 5 (0.48%) Selenium
6 5 (0.48%) Subversion
7 4 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.38%) TestRail
7 4 (0.38%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.19%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.19%) Storybook
9 1 (0.095%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.095%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.095%) gulp
9 1 (0.095%) MSTest
9 1 (0.095%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.095%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.095%) webpack
General
1 451 (42.87%) Social Skills
2 276 (26.24%) Finance
3 208 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (12.74%) Marketing
5 101 (9.60%) Organisational Skills
6 79 (7.51%) Law
7 70 (6.65%) Legal
8 63 (5.99%) Telecoms
9 61 (5.80%) Public Sector
10 58 (5.51%) Retail
11 51 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 50 (4.75%) Aerospace
13 45 (4.28%) Banking
14 35 (3.33%) Military
15 30 (2.85%) Manufacturing
16 28 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (2.28%) Electronics
17 24 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (2.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 123 (11.69%) Senior
2 98 (9.32%) Analyst
3 80 (7.60%) Lead
4 71 (6.75%) Developer
5 62 (5.89%) IT Support
6 56 (5.32%) Support Engineer
7 51 (4.85%) Consultant
8 47 (4.47%) Architect
9 32 (3.04%) Account Manager
9 32 (3.04%) Senior Manager
10 31 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (2.95%) Systems Engineer
11 28 (2.66%) Technical Support
12 26 (2.47%) Software Engineer
13 25 (2.38%) Applications Developer
13 25 (2.38%) IT Engineer
13 25 (2.38%) IT Manager
14 24 (2.28%) Business Analyst
14 24 (2.28%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (2.28%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.32%) .NET
2 31 (2.95%) .NET Core
2 31 (2.95%) HTML
3 29 (2.76%) React
4 23 (2.19%) CSS
5 18 (1.71%) REST
6 15 (1.43%) Node.js
7 14 (1.33%) JSON
7 14 (1.33%) XML
8 13 (1.24%) Middleware
9 12 (1.14%) ASP.NET
10 11 (1.05%) OAuth
10 11 (1.05%) RESTful
11 10 (0.95%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.95%) Spring
12 9 (0.86%) OpenID
12 9 (0.86%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.86%) Vue
13 8 (0.76%) Entity Framework
13 8 (0.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (6.37%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
3 50 (4.75%) Management Information System
4 42 (3.99%) Driving Licence
5 38 (3.61%) Social Media
6 36 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 36 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.28%) Life Science
8 23 (2.19%) Cloud Native
9 22 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.00%) Pharmacovigilance
11 18 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 16 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (1.33%) Blog
15 14 (1.33%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.05%) NHS
16 11 (1.05%) Public Cloud
17 9 (0.86%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 115 (10.93%) Windows
2 49 (4.66%) Linux
3 37 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.57%) CentOS
7 6 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.57%) Unix
8 5 (0.48%) Debian
8 5 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (0.48%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.38%) Android
9 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.095%) Rocky
11 1 (0.095%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
2 244 (23.19%) Agile
3 195 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 135 (12.83%) Analytics
5 120 (11.41%) Decision-Making
6 112 (10.65%) AI
7 109 (10.36%) Computer Science
8 101 (9.60%) Service Delivery
9 100 (9.51%) DevOps
10 98 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 92 (8.75%) Mentoring
12 90 (8.56%) Project Delivery
13 86 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
14 83 (7.89%) Project Management
15 81 (7.70%) Customer Service
16 80 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
16 80 (7.60%) CRM
17 77 (7.32%) CI/CD
18 75 (7.13%) Collaborative Culture
19 73 (6.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 126 (11.98%) Python
2 93 (8.84%) SQL
3 52 (4.94%) C#
4 46 (4.37%) Java
5 44 (4.18%) PowerShell
6 43 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.71%) Bash
7 18 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.05%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.86%) C++
10 8 (0.76%) VBA
11 7 (0.67%) Go
12 6 (0.57%) Scala
12 6 (0.57%) VB
12 6 (0.57%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.48%) C
13 5 (0.48%) PHP
13 5 (0.48%) VBScript
14 4 (0.38%) Bicep
14 4 (0.38%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 210 (19.96%) Degree
2 125 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 57 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 51 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.47%) Master's Degree
6 45 (4.28%) DBS Check
7 38 (3.61%) CISSP
8 27 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (2.38%) PMI Certification
10 24 (2.28%) ACCA
10 24 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (2.19%) PMP
12 21 (2.00%) CIMA
13 19 (1.81%) CCNP
13 19 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.71%) CCIE
15 16 (1.52%) CISM
16 12 (1.14%) Postgraduate
17 10 (0.95%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.18%) QA
2 59 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.56%) GDPR
4 47 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.14%) Accessibility
6 31 (2.95%) PMO
7 24 (2.28%) NIST
8 23 (2.19%) EU AI Act
9 22 (2.09%) Solvency II
10 21 (2.00%) HIPAA
10 21 (2.00%) PSD2
11 18 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (1.14%) SLA
13 10 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 8 (0.76%) GAAP
15 7 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.67%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.48%) GRC
System Software
1 76 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.66%) Docker
3 22 (2.09%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.52%) ProxySG
6 9 (0.86%) Firmware
7 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.38%) vSphere
10 1 (0.095%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.095%) KVM
10 1 (0.095%) pfSense
10 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.095%) XenApp
10 1 (0.095%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.28%) Terraform
3 27 (2.57%) Ansible
4 22 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.43%) SCCM
6 11 (1.05%) Puppet
7 6 (0.57%) Argo
7 6 (0.57%) Grafana
8 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.48%) Rancher
8 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.48%) yum
9 4 (0.38%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.38%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.29%) Nessus
10 3 (0.29%) Plesk
Vendors
1 222 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.99%) Google
3 39 (3.71%) Cisco
4 31 (2.95%) Salesforce
4 31 (2.95%) VMware
5 28 (2.66%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.09%) SAP
7 17 (1.62%) Infoblox
8 16 (1.52%) Adobe
8 16 (1.52%) Blue Coat
8 16 (1.52%) CheckPoint
8 16 (1.52%) F5
8 16 (1.52%) Motorola
8 16 (1.52%) Oracle
8 16 (1.52%) SolarWinds
9 14 (1.33%) Remedy
10 12 (1.14%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.86%) HP
12 8 (0.76%) Veeam
13 7 (0.67%) Atlassian