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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 89 102
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +13
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,985 1,402 1,660
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.97% 3.25% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 3.66% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 691 847
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £30,562
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £52,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% -3.67% -3.54%
75th Percentile £70,031 £69,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £95,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.11%

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 73,754 38,333 56,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 88.82% 81.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52,343 22,038 32,065
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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
North of England +79 461 £45,000 - 566
London -45 432 £65,000 - 1,372
South East -1 407 £47,500 +5.56% 378
North West +81 281 £45,000 - 383
Midlands -1 270 £40,500 -4.71% 231
South West +3 259 £63,813 +6.36% 329
West Midlands -19 163 £42,500 -4.01% 166
East of England -36 130 £47,500 +26.67% 161
Yorkshire +53 125 £42,500 -28.27% 140
East Midlands +16 106 £32,500 -23.53% 64
North East -30 55 £56,250 +93.97% 47
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 84 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (1.31%) Confluence
4 18 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.60%) CMS
5 12 (0.60%) WordPress
6 9 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.20%) nginx
7 4 (0.20%) SAS
8 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.10%) Drupal
8 2 (0.10%) Gentran
8 2 (0.10%) IIS
8 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.10%) Luigi
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.050%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 132 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.71%) Revit
5 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (0.45%) Simulink
7 8 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.40%) InDesign
7 8 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.25%) Fusion 360
9 5 (0.25%) Navisworks
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.20%) CapCut
11 3 (0.15%) Blender
11 3 (0.15%) Maya
11 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.15%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 26 (1.31%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.30%) Exchequer
4 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.10%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.10%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.050%) Academy Housing
6 1 (0.050%) FastStats
6 1 (0.050%) Maximo
6 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.050%) Primavera
6 1 (0.050%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.050%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 265 (13.35%) Azure
2 192 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
3 182 (9.17%) AWS
4 167 (8.41%) Power Platform
5 88 (4.43%) SaaS
6 65 (3.27%) GCP
7 63 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 38 (1.91%) GitHub
10 37 (1.86%) Serverless
11 30 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (1.36%) Google Analytics
14 24 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.16%) OneDrive
16 22 (1.11%) OCI
17 21 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
18 19 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (0.96%) Snowflake
19 16 (0.81%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.68%) Firewall
2 58 (2.92%) DNS
3 43 (2.17%) DHCP
4 40 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 40 (2.02%) VPN
5 37 (1.86%) Network Security
6 28 (1.41%) HTTP
7 27 (1.36%) WAN
8 26 (1.31%) VLAN
9 23 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.86%) LAN
10 17 (0.86%) Wireless
11 14 (0.71%) Broadband
12 12 (0.60%) BGP
13 10 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.50%) VoIP
14 9 (0.45%) Internet
15 7 (0.35%) AMQP
15 7 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.25%) Power BI
2 59 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 39 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 27 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (1.21%) BigQuery
5 24 (1.21%) Redis
6 22 (1.11%) Tableau
7 20 (1.01%) Big Data
8 18 (0.91%) Metadata
8 18 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.76%) GIS
9 15 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.71%) MySQL
10 14 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.65%) Hadoop
11 13 (0.65%) Power Query
12 11 (0.55%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 90 (4.53%) Git
2 76 (3.83%) JIRA
3 33 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.86%) GitLab
5 8 (0.40%) Postman
6 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.25%) LabVIEW
7 5 (0.25%) MSI
7 5 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.20%) Maven
8 4 (0.20%) Storybook
9 3 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.15%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.15%) JUnit
9 3 (0.15%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.15%) Vite
General
1 896 (45.14%) Social Skills
2 447 (22.52%) Finance
3 332 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (11.23%) Organisational Skills
5 182 (9.17%) Marketing
6 153 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 140 (7.05%) Public Sector
8 136 (6.85%) Aerospace
9 102 (5.14%) Legal
10 97 (4.89%) Law
10 97 (4.89%) Manufacturing
11 92 (4.63%) Retail
12 83 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (3.43%) Electronics
14 67 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
14 67 (3.38%) Telecoms
15 46 (2.32%) Banking
16 40 (2.02%) Military
17 32 (1.61%) Local Government
18 31 (1.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 252 (12.70%) Senior
2 174 (8.77%) Developer
3 171 (8.61%) Analyst
4 151 (7.61%) Lead
5 83 (4.18%) Software Engineer
6 76 (3.83%) IT Support
7 66 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 56 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 55 (2.77%) Consultant
9 55 (2.77%) IT Manager
10 53 (2.67%) Architect
11 51 (2.57%) Security Engineer
12 49 (2.47%) Development Manager
13 47 (2.37%) Support Analyst
13 47 (2.37%) Support Engineer
14 46 (2.32%) Business Development Manager
14 46 (2.32%) Business Manager
15 45 (2.27%) Senior Developer
16 43 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
17 42 (2.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (4.48%) Node.js
2 79 (3.98%) REST
3 61 (3.07%) Terraform
4 60 (3.02%) HTML
5 48 (2.42%) CSS
6 47 (2.37%) .NET
7 36 (1.81%) React
8 28 (1.41%) Middleware
8 28 (1.41%) Vue
9 26 (1.31%) AngularJS
10 25 (1.26%) RESTful
11 24 (1.21%) JSON
11 24 (1.21%) SOAP
12 21 (1.06%) EDI
13 16 (0.81%) .NET Core
13 16 (0.81%) XML
14 15 (0.76%) .NET Framework
14 15 (0.76%) Kafka
14 15 (0.76%) OAuth
15 14 (0.71%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.10%) Onboarding
2 114 (5.74%) Management Information System
3 100 (5.04%) Driving Licence
4 82 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 79 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.52%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.12%) Social Media
8 33 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 30 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.16%) Blog
10 23 (1.16%) NHS
11 22 (1.11%) Analogue Electronics
12 21 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.01%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 19 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.86%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.71%) EPoS
16 14 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 128 (6.45%) Windows
2 85 (4.28%) Linux
3 51 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.71%) Unix
5 12 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
7 10 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.45%) CentOS
9 8 (0.40%) Debian
9 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.30%) Android
11 3 (0.15%) VMS
12 2 (0.10%) Rocky
12 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (30.98%) Problem-Solving
2 593 (29.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 385 (19.40%) Agile
4 287 (14.46%) Decision-Making
5 245 (12.34%) Customer Service
6 227 (11.44%) AI
7 219 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 214 (10.78%) Analytics
9 203 (10.23%) Mentoring
10 191 (9.62%) CRM
11 189 (9.52%) CI/CD
12 188 (9.47%) Project Delivery
13 181 (9.12%) Service Delivery
14 180 (9.07%) Cyber Intelligence
15 175 (8.82%) Roadmaps
16 156 (7.86%) Validation
17 154 (7.76%) Collaborative Culture
18 153 (7.71%) Project Management
19 150 (7.56%) Software Engineering
20 146 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 222 (11.18%) SQL
2 177 (8.92%) Python
3 107 (5.39%) JavaScript
4 77 (3.88%) Java
5 66 (3.32%) TypeScript
6 64 (3.22%) C#
7 58 (2.92%) C
8 41 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.21%) PHP
10 20 (1.01%) C++
10 20 (1.01%) VBA
11 17 (0.86%) Embedded C
12 16 (0.81%) Bash
13 15 (0.76%) ABAP
13 15 (0.76%) MATLAB
14 13 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.45%) Bicep
16 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.30%) Go
17 6 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 313 (15.77%) Degree
2 225 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 102 (5.14%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.08%) DV Cleared
5 51 (2.57%) DBS Check
6 48 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 46 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.07%) ACCA
9 35 (1.76%) CIMA
10 28 (1.41%) CISSP
11 26 (1.31%) HND
12 25 (1.26%) HNC
12 25 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.16%) PMI Certification
14 18 (0.91%) PMP
15 17 (0.86%) CISM
15 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
16 16 (0.81%) Postgraduate
17 13 (0.65%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.55%) QA
2 104 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 96 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.27%) GDPR
5 34 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (1.31%) PMO
8 25 (1.26%) GAAP
9 24 (1.21%) SLA
10 20 (1.01%) NIST
11 18 (0.91%) WCAG
12 12 (0.60%) TickIT
13 11 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.45%) NCSC
15 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.30%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.30%) PERC
18 5 (0.25%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 77 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.07%) Docker
3 24 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.06%) Firmware
4 21 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.25%) ClearTrust
7 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.050%) KVM
8 1 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.050%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (1.96%) Ansible
4 11 (0.55%) Puppet
5 10 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.45%) SCCM
7 6 (0.30%) Grafana
7 6 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.15%) BMC PATROL
9 3 (0.15%) Control-M
9 3 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (0.15%) Nessus
9 3 (0.15%) Plesk
9 3 (0.15%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.10%) Kibana
10 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 433 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.27%) Google
3 55 (2.77%) Salesforce
4 43 (2.17%) Oracle
5 39 (1.96%) SAP
6 34 (1.71%) ServiceNow
6 34 (1.71%) VMware
7 32 (1.61%) Sage
8 31 (1.56%) Cisco
9 26 (1.31%) Adobe
9 26 (1.31%) Databricks
10 21 (1.06%) YouTube
11 19 (0.96%) HubSpot
12 15 (0.76%) Civica
12 15 (0.76%) Fortinet
12 15 (0.76%) Palo Alto
13 13 (0.65%) iManage
14 12 (0.60%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.55%) IBM
16 10 (0.50%) Juniper