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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 84 95
Rank change year-on-year -39 +11 +35
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,322 1,481 2,414
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.57% 3.68% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.99% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 806 670 1,684
10th Percentile £29,120 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,803 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.28% +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 62,143 37,121 76,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 92.27% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 43,798 20,470 55,428
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £72,500
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% -9.54%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -51 380 £65,000 - 175
South East -28 275 £50,000 +6.95% 138
North of England +13 257 £51,696 +3.39% 108
Midlands -1 201 £45,000 -13.78% 103
North West +26 154 £47,271 -5.46% 74
East Midlands +18 100 £41,250 -2.94% 49
West Midlands -33 100 £46,042 -16.29% 54
South West -40 98 £36,869 -35.88% 65
East of England -68 77 £55,000 +57.14% 55
Yorkshire -25 73 £58,750 +0.43% 19
North East -32 30 £57,500 +79.69% 15
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 54 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.21%) WordPress
4 15 (1.13%) CMS
5 14 (1.06%) Confluence
6 9 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.68%) SAS
7 6 (0.45%) Apache
7 6 (0.45%) IIS
8 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.15%) Drupal
9 2 (0.15%) Gentran
9 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Luigi
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.076%) Appian
10 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
Applications
1 63 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.38%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.38%) InDesign
7 5 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.30%) Simulink
9 3 (0.23%) Blender
9 3 (0.23%) Maya
9 3 (0.23%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.076%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.51%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.38%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.076%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.076%) FastStats
6 1 (0.076%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.076%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.076%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.076%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 244 (18.46%) Azure
2 179 (13.54%) AWS
3 138 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (9.15%) Power Platform
5 69 (5.22%) GCP
6 65 (4.92%) SaaS
7 50 (3.78%) Entra ID
8 47 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (2.72%) Serverless
10 29 (2.19%) Google Analytics
11 27 (2.04%) GitHub
12 26 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.44%) Figma
15 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.21%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.13%) Boomi
17 15 (1.13%) Snowflake
18 13 (0.98%) OCI
19 12 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.05%) Firewall
2 42 (3.18%) DNS
3 39 (2.95%) VPN
4 38 (2.87%) Network Security
4 38 (2.87%) VLAN
5 35 (2.65%) DHCP
6 34 (2.57%) WAN
7 27 (2.04%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.89%) LAN
8 25 (1.89%) Wireless
9 22 (1.66%) Broadband
10 21 (1.59%) HTTP
11 20 (1.51%) BGP
12 15 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (1.06%) SNMP
14 12 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.91%) EIGRP
14 12 (0.91%) WAAS
14 12 (0.91%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.25%) Power BI
2 36 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.97%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (1.82%) Tableau
6 17 (1.29%) MySQL
7 16 (1.21%) Big Data
7 16 (1.21%) GIS
7 16 (1.21%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
9 14 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.98%) Metadata
11 12 (0.91%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.76%) Redis
13 7 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.53%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.45%) Power Query
15 5 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 59 (4.46%) Git
2 45 (3.40%) JIRA
3 34 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.21%) GitLab
5 9 (0.68%) Postman
6 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.23%) Selenium
8 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.076%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.076%) MSI
10 1 (0.076%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.076%) TestRail
General
1 583 (44.10%) Social Skills
2 349 (26.40%) Finance
3 254 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (10.59%) Marketing
5 119 (9.00%) Organisational Skills
6 95 (7.19%) Legal
7 93 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 87 (6.58%) Public Sector
9 74 (5.60%) Law
10 70 (5.30%) Aerospace
11 55 (4.16%) Retail
12 52 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (3.86%) Telecoms
14 40 (3.03%) Manufacturing
15 37 (2.80%) Banking
16 34 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (2.27%) Electronics
18 29 (2.19%) Local Government
19 24 (1.82%) Advertising
20 20 (1.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 197 (14.90%) Senior
2 136 (10.29%) Analyst
3 100 (7.56%) Developer
4 89 (6.73%) Lead
5 60 (4.54%) Consultant
6 48 (3.63%) Support Engineer
7 47 (3.56%) IT Support
7 47 (3.56%) Software Engineer
8 46 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
9 45 (3.40%) Architect
10 42 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 41 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
11 41 (3.10%) Senior Manager
12 35 (2.65%) IT Manager
13 29 (2.19%) Business Analyst
14 28 (2.12%) Senior Developer
15 25 (1.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (1.89%) IT Analyst
15 25 (1.89%) Network Engineer
16 24 (1.82%) Financial Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (4.46%) Node.js
2 53 (4.01%) REST
3 43 (3.25%) .NET
4 38 (2.87%) React
5 33 (2.50%) HTML
6 28 (2.12%) JSON
7 26 (1.97%) XML
8 25 (1.89%) CSS
9 22 (1.66%) .NET Core
9 22 (1.66%) Vue
10 19 (1.44%) SOAP
11 17 (1.29%) Middleware
12 16 (1.21%) EDI
12 16 (1.21%) Next.js
13 14 (1.06%) OAuth
14 13 (0.98%) AWS CDK
15 12 (0.91%) RESTful
16 11 (0.83%) AngularJS
17 8 (0.61%) OpenID
17 8 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.13%) Onboarding
2 67 (5.07%) Management Information System
3 61 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 55 (4.16%) Driving Licence
5 50 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 35 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.57%) Social Media
8 33 (2.50%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.19%) Public Cloud
10 24 (1.82%) Blog
11 20 (1.51%) Algorithms
11 20 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.13%) NHS
14 14 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.98%) EPoS
16 12 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 115 (8.70%) Windows
2 66 (4.99%) Linux
3 47 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 8 (0.61%) Unix
6 7 (0.53%) CentOS
7 6 (0.45%) Android
7 6 (0.45%) Debian
8 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.30%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.23%) VMS
9 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (34.11%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (24.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 286 (21.63%) Agile
4 191 (14.45%) Decision-Making
5 166 (12.56%) Analytics
6 161 (12.18%) Mentoring
7 154 (11.65%) Roadmaps
8 152 (11.50%) AI
9 139 (10.51%) Service Delivery
10 134 (10.14%) CI/CD
11 120 (9.08%) Customer Service
12 119 (9.00%) Validation
13 115 (8.70%) DevOps
14 114 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 111 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
16 109 (8.25%) Computer Science
17 107 (8.09%) Project Management
18 103 (7.79%) Project Delivery
19 102 (7.72%) CRM
20 96 (7.26%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 171 (12.93%) SQL
2 158 (11.95%) Python
3 59 (4.46%) JavaScript
4 57 (4.31%) C#
5 56 (4.24%) Java
6 48 (3.63%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.66%) C
9 19 (1.44%) C++
10 18 (1.36%) VBA
11 17 (1.29%) PHP
12 15 (1.13%) Bash
13 14 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.91%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.76%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.68%) VB
17 8 (0.61%) ABAP
17 8 (0.61%) Bicep
18 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.38%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 237 (17.93%) Degree
2 131 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 57 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 50 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.33%) DBS Check
6 42 (3.18%) ACCA
7 38 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.65%) CIMA
8 35 (2.65%) CISSP
9 32 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.59%) PMI Certification
13 19 (1.44%) CCNP
13 19 (1.44%) PMP
14 15 (1.13%) CISM
14 15 (1.13%) HND
15 14 (1.06%) CCIE
16 13 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.51%) QA
2 78 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 64 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 40 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.87%) PMO
6 30 (2.27%) GDPR
7 25 (1.89%) GAAP
8 24 (1.82%) NIST
9 20 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.91%) TickIT
11 11 (0.83%) SLA
12 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
12 8 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 7 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.53%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.53%) WCAG
14 5 (0.38%) Def Stans
System Software
1 62 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.42%) Docker
3 24 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.13%) Firmware
5 14 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.91%) ProxySG
7 11 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.38%) ClearTrust
10 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) vSphere
12 1 (0.076%) XenApp
12 1 (0.076%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.63%) Terraform
3 32 (2.42%) Ansible
4 19 (1.44%) SCCM
5 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.61%) Puppet
6 8 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.30%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.30%) Grafana
8 4 (0.30%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (0.23%) Argo
9 3 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.23%) Kibana
9 3 (0.23%) Plesk
9 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Rancher
10 2 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 284 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.46%) Google
3 45 (3.40%) Salesforce
4 37 (2.80%) Cisco
5 32 (2.42%) ServiceNow
6 24 (1.82%) Oracle
6 24 (1.82%) VMware
7 23 (1.74%) SAP
8 19 (1.44%) Adobe
9 18 (1.36%) Remedy
10 15 (1.13%) Databricks
11 14 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.06%) SolarWinds
12 12 (0.91%) Blue Coat
12 12 (0.91%) CheckPoint
12 12 (0.91%) F5
12 12 (0.91%) iManage
12 12 (0.91%) Infoblox
12 12 (0.91%) Motorola
13 11 (0.83%) HubSpot