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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 82 105
Rank change year-on-year -29 +23 +23
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,614 1,559 1,751
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.72% 3.56% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 3.98% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 733 1,074
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £30,420
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,800 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -11.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £92,159
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -5.35%

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 69,222 39,170 58,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 89.42% 81.39%
Number of salaries quoted 48,821 22,704 38,917
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,519 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 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 10 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 -54 410 £65,000 - 429
North of England +39 328 £47,386 -2.31% 225
South East -25 323 £48,000 +4.35% 205
Midlands +4 270 £40,000 -15.79% 132
North West +44 202 £46,384 -4.85% 108
South West -25 158 £49,375 -26.26% 125
West Midlands -16 154 £42,500 -19.05% 81
East Midlands +20 115 £32,500 -23.53% 51
East of England -70 94 £52,500 +50.00% 77
Yorkshire +1 84 £42,500 -27.35% 83
North East -35 42 £57,500 +98.28% 38
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 70 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.93%) Confluence
4 14 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.74%) WordPress
6 11 (0.68%) CMS
6 11 (0.68%) SAS
7 7 (0.43%) Apache
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) IIS
9 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) Gentran
10 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) Luigi
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.062%) Appian
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 90 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.43%) Revit
7 6 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.37%) InDesign
7 6 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.31%) Fusion 360
8 5 (0.31%) Simulink
9 4 (0.25%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.19%) Blender
10 3 (0.19%) CapCut
10 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.19%) Maya
10 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.19%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 25 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.25%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.12%) Shopify
8 1 (0.062%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.062%) FastStats
8 1 (0.062%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.062%) Primavera
8 1 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.062%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.062%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 262 (16.23%) Azure
2 197 (12.21%) AWS
3 168 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
4 146 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 81 (5.02%) SaaS
6 66 (4.09%) GCP
7 56 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 43 (2.66%) Serverless
10 33 (2.04%) GitHub
11 28 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
13 26 (1.61%) Google Analytics
14 22 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.36%) Snowflake
15 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (1.24%) OCI
17 19 (1.18%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.93%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.83%) Firewall
2 51 (3.16%) DNS
3 42 (2.60%) Network Security
4 36 (2.23%) DHCP
5 35 (2.17%) WAN
6 34 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 34 (2.11%) VPN
7 29 (1.80%) VLAN
8 27 (1.67%) LAN
9 25 (1.55%) HTTP
10 21 (1.30%) Broadband
11 19 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.18%) Wireless
12 16 (0.99%) BGP
13 12 (0.74%) VoIP
14 9 (0.56%) Internet
14 9 (0.56%) SNMP
15 7 (0.43%) EIGRP
15 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.68%) Power BI
2 55 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 28 (1.73%) Tableau
5 25 (1.55%) BigQuery
5 25 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (1.43%) Big Data
7 19 (1.18%) Metadata
8 18 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (1.05%) GIS
10 16 (0.99%) Redis
11 15 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
12 14 (0.87%) MySQL
12 14 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.74%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (0.68%) Power Query
15 10 (0.62%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 83 (5.14%) Git
2 57 (3.53%) JIRA
3 35 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.99%) GitLab
5 9 (0.56%) Postman
6 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.31%) MSI
8 4 (0.25%) Maven
8 4 (0.25%) Storybook
9 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.19%) LabVIEW
9 3 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.12%) JUnit
10 2 (0.12%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.12%) MSTest
10 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 734 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 378 (23.42%) Finance
3 290 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
5 157 (9.73%) Marketing
6 124 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (7.68%) Public Sector
7 111 (6.88%) Legal
8 99 (6.13%) Aerospace
9 84 (5.20%) Law
10 70 (4.34%) Manufacturing
11 68 (4.21%) Retail
12 66 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (3.10%) Telecoms
15 46 (2.85%) Electronics
16 40 (2.48%) Banking
17 30 (1.86%) Advertising
18 27 (1.67%) Local Government
19 21 (1.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 230 (14.25%) Senior
2 148 (9.17%) Analyst
3 145 (8.98%) Developer
4 127 (7.87%) Lead
5 66 (4.09%) Consultant
6 59 (3.66%) IT Support
7 55 (3.41%) Software Engineer
8 46 (2.85%) Systems Engineer
9 44 (2.73%) Senior Manager
10 43 (2.66%) IT Manager
11 42 (2.60%) Architect
11 42 (2.60%) Support Engineer
12 41 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
12 41 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (2.42%) Development Manager
13 39 (2.42%) Senior Developer
14 37 (2.29%) Business Development Manager
14 37 (2.29%) Business Manager
15 36 (2.23%) Software Developer
16 34 (2.11%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (5.02%) Node.js
2 71 (4.40%) REST
3 51 (3.16%) .NET
3 51 (3.16%) HTML
4 41 (2.54%) CSS
5 38 (2.35%) React
6 32 (1.98%) Vue
7 26 (1.61%) JSON
8 24 (1.49%) RESTful
9 23 (1.43%) .NET Core
9 23 (1.43%) SOAP
10 21 (1.30%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.12%) .NET Framework
11 18 (1.12%) EDI
11 18 (1.12%) Middleware
11 18 (1.12%) XML
12 17 (1.05%) Next.js
13 16 (0.99%) OAuth
14 15 (0.93%) Kafka
15 13 (0.81%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.89%) Management Information System
2 92 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 71 (4.40%) Driving Licence
5 50 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 50 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.11%) Social Media
7 33 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 29 (1.80%) Blog
9 24 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 22 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.24%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.18%) NHS
13 18 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 16 (0.99%) Analogue Electronics
15 16 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 126 (7.81%) Windows
2 75 (4.65%) Linux
3 50 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.56%) Unix
6 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.43%) CentOS
7 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.37%) Debian
9 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.25%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.19%) Android
11 3 (0.19%) VMS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.062%) Rocky
13 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
2 479 (29.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 356 (22.06%) Agile
4 244 (15.12%) Decision-Making
5 195 (12.08%) Analytics
6 180 (11.15%) AI
6 180 (11.15%) Mentoring
7 175 (10.84%) Roadmaps
8 172 (10.66%) Customer Service
9 165 (10.22%) CI/CD
10 162 (10.04%) Service Delivery
11 146 (9.05%) CRM
12 144 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 136 (8.43%) Project Delivery
14 135 (8.36%) Project Management
15 133 (8.24%) Collaborative Culture
16 131 (8.12%) Validation
17 127 (7.87%) DevOps
18 125 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 121 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 196 (12.14%) SQL
2 168 (10.41%) Python
3 91 (5.64%) JavaScript
4 74 (4.58%) Java
5 69 (4.28%) C#
6 68 (4.21%) TypeScript
7 39 (2.42%) C
8 38 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 25 (1.55%) PHP
10 24 (1.49%) VBA
11 18 (1.12%) C++
12 16 (0.99%) Embedded C
13 14 (0.87%) ABAP
13 14 (0.87%) Bash
14 11 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.68%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.56%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.50%) VB
17 6 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 280 (17.35%) Degree
2 178 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 86 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 61 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 49 (3.04%) ACCA
6 48 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 48 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (2.54%) CIMA
8 39 (2.42%) DBS Check
9 37 (2.29%) CISSP
10 28 (1.73%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.30%) PMI Certification
13 19 (1.18%) HND
14 18 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.12%) CISM
15 16 (0.99%) CCNP
15 16 (0.99%) PMP
16 15 (0.93%) CEH
16 15 (0.93%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (6.26%) QA
2 90 (5.58%) Accessibility
3 88 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.66%) GDPR
5 35 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (2.11%) PMO
7 29 (1.80%) GAAP
8 26 (1.61%) NIST
9 23 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.24%) SLA
11 18 (1.12%) WCAG
12 12 (0.74%) TickIT
13 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
14 8 (0.50%) NCSC
15 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.37%) JSP 440
System Software
1 69 (4.28%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.42%) Docker
3 23 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 19 (1.18%) Firmware
5 18 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.37%) ProxySG
8 5 (0.31%) ClearTrust
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.062%) KVM
11 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 51 (3.16%) Terraform
3 35 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (1.98%) Ansible
5 19 (1.18%) SCCM
6 8 (0.50%) Puppet
7 7 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.25%) Grafana
10 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.25%) ServiceCenter
11 3 (0.19%) BMC PATROL
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
11 3 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.19%) Nessus
11 3 (0.19%) Plesk
11 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.19%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 363 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 63 (3.90%) Google
3 49 (3.04%) Salesforce
4 41 (2.54%) Oracle
5 40 (2.48%) SAP
6 38 (2.35%) Cisco
7 31 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.86%) VMware
9 28 (1.73%) Adobe
10 21 (1.30%) Databricks
11 19 (1.18%) HubSpot
12 18 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 17 (1.05%) Remedy
14 15 (0.93%) iManage
15 14 (0.87%) HP
15 14 (0.87%) IBM
16 13 (0.81%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.81%) SolarWinds
17 9 (0.56%) F5
17 9 (0.56%) Red Hat