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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 88 94
Rank change year-on-year -36 +6 +34
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,371 1,503 2,355
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.59% 3.55% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.90% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 832 686 1,628
10th Percentile £29,120 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,875 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -13.04%

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 63,821 38,568 75,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 90.98% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 45,100 21,810 54,142
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,990 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £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 £73,410
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% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -52 382 £65,000 - 281
South East -19 291 £50,000 +6.95% 168
North of England +7 264 £51,772 +3.54% 148
Midlands -9 212 £43,750 -15.68% 116
North West +12 159 £47,271 -5.46% 85
West Midlands -34 108 £45,000 -18.18% 66
South West -43 106 £38,738 -35.44% 80
East Midlands +22 103 £41,250 -2.94% 50
East of England -62 78 £55,000 +57.14% 60
Yorkshire -7 73 £60,000 +2.56% 40
North East -30 32 £57,500 +64.29% 24
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 57 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 45 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.31%) WordPress
4 14 (1.02%) CMS
5 13 (0.95%) Confluence
6 12 (0.88%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.66%) SAS
8 7 (0.51%) Apache
9 6 (0.44%) IIS
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.15%) Drupal
11 2 (0.15%) Gentran
11 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Luigi
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
12 1 (0.073%) Appian
12 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.073%) OpenStack
Applications
1 67 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.36%) Fusion 360
7 5 (0.36%) InDesign
7 5 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.29%) Simulink
9 3 (0.22%) Blender
9 3 (0.22%) Maya
9 3 (0.22%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.073%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.36%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.073%) FastStats
7 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 252 (18.38%) Azure
2 188 (13.71%) AWS
3 146 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
4 128 (9.34%) Power Platform
5 73 (5.32%) SaaS
6 72 (5.25%) GCP
7 51 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 49 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (2.84%) Serverless
10 30 (2.19%) Google Analytics
11 27 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (1.97%) GitHub
12 23 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.24%) Figma
15 17 (1.24%) Snowflake
16 16 (1.17%) OCI
17 15 (1.09%) Boomi
18 13 (0.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.13%) Firewall
2 49 (3.57%) DNS
3 43 (3.14%) VPN
4 41 (2.99%) Network Security
5 38 (2.77%) DHCP
5 38 (2.77%) VLAN
6 37 (2.70%) WAN
7 31 (2.26%) TCP/IP
8 28 (2.04%) LAN
9 26 (1.90%) Wireless
10 22 (1.60%) BGP
10 22 (1.60%) Broadband
11 21 (1.53%) HTTP
12 17 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 14 (1.02%) SNMP
14 12 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.88%) EIGRP
14 12 (0.88%) WAAS
14 12 (0.88%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.32%) Power BI
2 43 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.97%) BigQuery
4 25 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (1.82%) Tableau
5 19 (1.39%) Big Data
6 18 (1.31%) MySQL
7 17 (1.24%) GIS
7 17 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.02%) Metadata
9 14 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
10 12 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.88%) Redis
10 12 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.73%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 61 (4.45%) Git
2 47 (3.43%) JIRA
3 34 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.17%) GitLab
5 9 (0.66%) Postman
6 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.22%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.22%) Selenium
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) MSI
9 2 (0.15%) MSTest
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.073%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.073%) Qt Creator
10 1 (0.073%) TestRail
General
1 611 (44.57%) Social Skills
2 362 (26.40%) Finance
3 267 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (10.72%) Marketing
5 124 (9.04%) Organisational Skills
6 97 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 96 (7.00%) Legal
8 90 (6.56%) Public Sector
9 78 (5.69%) Aerospace
9 78 (5.69%) Law
10 57 (4.16%) Retail
11 53 (3.87%) Telecoms
12 52 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (3.06%) Manufacturing
14 40 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (2.55%) Banking
16 31 (2.26%) Electronics
17 29 (2.12%) Local Government
18 28 (2.04%) Advertising
19 20 (1.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 202 (14.73%) Senior
2 141 (10.28%) Analyst
3 111 (8.10%) Developer
4 96 (7.00%) Lead
5 63 (4.60%) Consultant
6 50 (3.65%) IT Support
6 50 (3.65%) Software Engineer
7 47 (3.43%) Support Engineer
8 45 (3.28%) Architect
8 45 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 45 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
9 42 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
10 41 (2.99%) Senior Manager
11 37 (2.70%) IT Manager
12 32 (2.33%) Business Analyst
13 30 (2.19%) Senior Developer
14 28 (2.04%) IT Analyst
14 28 (2.04%) Network Engineer
15 26 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
16 25 (1.82%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (4.81%) Node.js
2 59 (4.30%) REST
3 45 (3.28%) .NET
4 41 (2.99%) React
5 37 (2.70%) HTML
6 28 (2.04%) CSS
6 28 (2.04%) JSON
7 26 (1.90%) Vue
7 26 (1.90%) XML
8 22 (1.60%) .NET Core
9 21 (1.53%) SOAP
10 18 (1.31%) Middleware
11 16 (1.17%) EDI
11 16 (1.17%) Next.js
11 16 (1.17%) OAuth
12 14 (1.02%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.02%) RESTful
13 13 (0.95%) AWS CDK
14 10 (0.73%) Spring
15 9 (0.66%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.98%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.18%) Management Information System
3 62 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 58 (4.23%) Driving Licence
5 52 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 34 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (2.48%) Social Media
7 33 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 30 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 27 (1.97%) Blog
10 21 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.17%) NHS
13 15 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.02%) EPoS
15 13 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 118 (8.61%) Windows
2 75 (5.47%) Linux
3 48 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
5 9 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.58%) CentOS
6 8 (0.58%) Unix
7 7 (0.51%) Debian
8 6 (0.44%) Android
9 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (34.79%) Problem-Solving
2 351 (25.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 305 (22.25%) Agile
4 199 (14.51%) Decision-Making
5 173 (12.62%) Analytics
6 164 (11.96%) Mentoring
7 162 (11.82%) Roadmaps
8 157 (11.45%) AI
9 147 (10.72%) CI/CD
10 145 (10.58%) Service Delivery
11 126 (9.19%) Customer Service
12 120 (8.75%) Validation
13 119 (8.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 118 (8.61%) DevOps
15 116 (8.46%) Project Delivery
15 116 (8.46%) Project Management
16 114 (8.32%) Computer Science
17 108 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
18 105 (7.66%) Collaborative Culture
19 103 (7.51%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 181 (13.20%) SQL
2 169 (12.33%) Python
3 67 (4.89%) JavaScript
4 64 (4.67%) Java
5 62 (4.52%) C#
6 52 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.97%) C
9 21 (1.53%) PHP
10 20 (1.46%) VBA
11 19 (1.39%) C++
12 15 (1.09%) Bash
13 14 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.95%) Embedded C
15 11 (0.80%) ABAP
16 10 (0.73%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.66%) VB
18 8 (0.58%) Bicep
19 5 (0.36%) Embedded C++
19 5 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 250 (18.23%) Degree
2 139 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 60 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.14%) ACCA
6 42 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (3.06%) DBS Check
7 36 (2.63%) CIMA
8 35 (2.55%) CISSP
9 31 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (2.04%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.53%) PMI Certification
13 20 (1.46%) CCNP
14 17 (1.24%) PMP
15 16 (1.17%) CISM
16 14 (1.02%) CCIE
16 14 (1.02%) HND
17 12 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.56%) QA
2 77 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.77%) PMO
6 29 (2.12%) GDPR
7 27 (1.97%) GAAP
8 25 (1.82%) NIST
9 20 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.95%) SLA
11 12 (0.88%) TickIT
12 9 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
13 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 8 (0.58%) WCAG
14 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.36%) Def Stans
System Software
1 64 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.33%) Docker
3 25 (1.82%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.17%) Firmware
5 14 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
6 12 (0.88%) ProxySG
7 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.36%) ClearTrust
9 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
11 1 (0.073%) XenApp
11 1 (0.073%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.57%) Terraform
3 33 (2.41%) Ansible
4 20 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.39%) SCCM
6 9 (0.66%) Puppet
7 8 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.29%) Grafana
9 4 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.22%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 300 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.74%) Google
3 42 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.84%) Cisco
5 31 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 29 (2.12%) Oracle
7 28 (2.04%) SAP
8 24 (1.75%) VMware
9 19 (1.39%) Adobe
10 18 (1.31%) Remedy
11 16 (1.17%) Databricks
12 15 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.09%) SolarWinds
13 14 (1.02%) iManage
14 12 (0.88%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.88%) F5
14 12 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.88%) IBM
14 12 (0.88%) Infoblox
14 12 (0.88%) Motorola