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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 89 89
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 944 1,459 1,985
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.68% 3.12% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 3.41% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 593 731 1,460
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £45,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,429 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62,498 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £96,964 £90,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.17% +26.32% -20.90%

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 45,015 42,838 55,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.15% 91.65% 88.71%
Number of salaries quoted 27,213 20,764 44,303
10th Percentile £28,865 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,425 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% +6.83% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,063
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,751
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.62% -10.80%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -51 280 £60,000 -4.00% 185
South East -32 179 £38,000 -39.20% 142
North of England -44 169 £42,500 -15.00% 101
Midlands -26 125 £41,750 -24.09% 77
North West 0 110 £45,000 -10.05% 46
South West -2 82 £47,500 -12.04% 46
West Midlands -16 80 £30,000 -47.83% 47
East of England -24 77 £52,500 +3.01% 34
East Midlands -13 45 £42,500 -15.00% 28
Yorkshire -48 39 £42,500 -12.82% 42
North East -10 20 £29,000 -17.14% 16
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 37 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.75%) Confluence
4 11 (1.17%) WordPress
5 8 (0.85%) CMS
6 7 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.64%) IIS
8 4 (0.42%) Apache
8 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 70 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.85%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.42%) SketchUp
8 3 (0.32%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.21%) Simulink
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) Sketch
10 1 (0.11%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
2 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.11%) assyst
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 185 (19.60%) Azure
2 99 (10.49%) AWS
3 97 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (7.94%) Power Platform
5 42 (4.45%) Entra ID
6 35 (3.71%) GCP
7 28 (2.97%) SaaS
8 25 (2.65%) Azure AI
9 24 (2.54%) Amazon SageMaker
10 21 (2.22%) Vertex AI
11 16 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.59%) GitHub
13 13 (1.38%) OpenShift
13 13 (1.38%) Serverless
14 11 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.17%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
15 10 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.30%) Firewall
2 34 (3.60%) Wireless
3 32 (3.39%) VLAN
4 31 (3.28%) DNS
5 30 (3.18%) TCP/IP
6 29 (3.07%) VPN
7 25 (2.65%) DHCP
7 25 (2.65%) LAN
7 25 (2.65%) WAN
8 19 (2.01%) Network Security
9 13 (1.38%) BGP
10 12 (1.27%) Broadband
11 11 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
12 9 (0.95%) OSPF
12 9 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (0.95%) VoIP
13 8 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.85%) WAAS
13 8 (0.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.57%) Power BI
2 26 (2.75%) Tableau
3 20 (2.12%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.91%) Looker
5 14 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.27%) Big Data
6 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.95%) Hadoop
9 9 (0.95%) Power Query
9 9 (0.95%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.74%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.74%) MySQL
10 7 (0.74%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.53%) Metadata
13 4 (0.42%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 36 (3.81%) Git
2 35 (3.71%) JIRA
3 16 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.59%) GitLab
5 7 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.42%) Subversion
6 4 (0.42%) TestRail
6 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.32%) Selenium
8 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.21%) Storybook
9 1 (0.11%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.11%) gulp
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 466 (49.36%) Social Skills
2 235 (24.89%) Finance
3 183 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (16.53%) Marketing
5 98 (10.38%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (9.53%) Law
7 61 (6.46%) Telecoms
8 53 (5.61%) Aerospace
9 49 (5.19%) Public Sector
10 43 (4.56%) Retail
11 42 (4.45%) Legal
12 41 (4.34%) Banking
12 41 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (4.24%) Military
14 34 (3.60%) Billing
14 34 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 31 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (2.33%) Manufacturing
18 20 (2.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 112 (11.86%) Analyst
2 80 (8.47%) Senior
3 77 (8.16%) Lead
4 68 (7.20%) Developer
5 63 (6.67%) IT Support
6 43 (4.56%) Business Analyst
7 41 (4.34%) Architect
7 41 (4.34%) Support Engineer
8 34 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
9 31 (3.28%) Consultant
9 31 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 30 (3.18%) Digital Analyst
11 26 (2.75%) Administrator
11 26 (2.75%) Coordinator
11 26 (2.75%) Junior
12 25 (2.65%) Digital Business Analyst
13 24 (2.54%) Account Manager
14 23 (2.44%) Data Analyst
15 22 (2.33%) IT Engineer
16 21 (2.22%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.72%) .NET
2 46 (4.87%) HTML
3 24 (2.54%) React
4 20 (2.12%) .NET Core
5 19 (2.01%) CSS
5 19 (2.01%) RESTful
6 13 (1.38%) AngularJS
6 13 (1.38%) Middleware
7 9 (0.95%) Node.js
7 9 (0.95%) Spring
7 9 (0.95%) Spring Boot
8 8 (0.85%) Kafka
9 7 (0.74%) ASP.NET
9 7 (0.74%) OAuth
9 7 (0.74%) REST
10 6 (0.64%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.64%) PySpark
11 5 (0.53%) Django
11 5 (0.53%) EDI
11 5 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 92 (9.75%) Onboarding
2 59 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (4.56%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.81%) Driving Licence
5 34 (3.60%) Social Media
6 26 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.33%) Life Science
8 21 (2.22%) Pharmacovigilance
9 19 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 19 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.91%) FMCG
11 17 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.85%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.74%) IoT
16 7 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 91 (9.64%) Windows
2 38 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 33 (3.50%) Linux
4 10 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.53%) CentOS
6 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.53%) Unix
7 4 (0.42%) Android
7 4 (0.42%) Debian
7 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.32%) AIX
8 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.11%) Rocky
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (29.77%) Problem-Solving
2 211 (22.35%) Agile
3 175 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 121 (12.82%) Analytics
5 91 (9.64%) Project Management
6 89 (9.43%) AI
7 88 (9.32%) CRM
8 86 (9.11%) Computer Science
9 85 (9.00%) Service Delivery
10 84 (8.90%) Coaching
10 84 (8.90%) Decision-Making
11 78 (8.26%) Customer Service
12 76 (8.05%) Project Delivery
13 75 (7.94%) DevOps
14 71 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
14 71 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
14 71 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 69 (7.31%) Mentoring
16 66 (6.99%) Process Improvement
17 64 (6.78%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 91 (9.64%) SQL
2 89 (9.43%) Python
3 49 (5.19%) PowerShell
4 42 (4.45%) C#
5 39 (4.13%) Java
6 32 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.59%) Bash
8 10 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.85%) C++
10 7 (0.74%) VBA
11 6 (0.64%) Scala
11 6 (0.64%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.64%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.42%) Bicep
12 4 (0.42%) Go
12 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.42%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) ABAP
13 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 226 (23.94%) Degree
2 101 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (4.13%) DBS Check
6 38 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 38 (4.03%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (2.54%) CISSP
9 18 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.91%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.69%) PMP
12 14 (1.48%) HND
13 11 (1.17%) CISM
13 11 (1.17%) HNC
14 10 (1.06%) CCIE
14 10 (1.06%) CCNP
15 8 (0.85%) MBA
15 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.63%) QA
2 51 (5.40%) Accessibility
3 50 (5.30%) Data Quality
4 47 (4.98%) GDPR
5 32 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.44%) EU AI Act
7 22 (2.33%) PMO
8 21 (2.22%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.22%) PSD2
8 21 (2.22%) Solvency II
9 16 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (1.69%) NIST
10 13 (1.38%) SLA
11 8 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.85%) GRC
11 8 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 5 (0.53%) ARP4761
12 5 (0.53%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 22 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.22%) Docker
4 8 (0.85%) ProxySG
5 6 (0.64%) Firmware
5 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.42%) vSphere
7 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) pfSense
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.11%) XenApp
8 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.60%) Terraform
3 29 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (2.12%) Ansible
5 11 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.06%) Puppet
7 9 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.64%) Grafana
10 4 (0.42%) Argo
10 4 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.42%) Rancher
10 4 (0.42%) yum
11 3 (0.32%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.32%) cPanel
11 3 (0.32%) Netcool
11 3 (0.32%) Plesk
11 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 188 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.98%) Google
3 31 (3.28%) Cisco
4 30 (3.18%) VMware
5 28 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.01%) SAP
6 19 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.80%) Oracle
8 12 (1.27%) Adobe
9 11 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.17%) SolarWinds
10 10 (1.06%) Veeam
11 9 (0.95%) Infoblox
12 8 (0.85%) Blue Coat
12 8 (0.85%) BT
12 8 (0.85%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.85%) F5
12 8 (0.85%) Guidewire
12 8 (0.85%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.85%) Motorola