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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 70 90
Rank change year-on-year -64 +20 +21
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,192 1,559 2,395
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.45% 4.06% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 4.35% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 705 701 1,712
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -16.00%

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 60,779 35,855 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.78% 93.41% 84.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,146 19,238 53,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,288
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -44 364 £65,000 - 229
North of England +2 248 £50,000 - 132
South East -59 226 £52,500 -4.55% 152
Midlands -42 162 £42,500 -19.05% 93
North West +26 151 £48,750 -2.50% 76
South West -44 92 £38,738 -29.57% 54
West Midlands -56 84 £42,500 -22.73% 60
East Midlands -11 77 £42,500 -10.53% 33
Yorkshire -33 75 £60,850 +4.02% 33
East of England -86 65 £55,000 +7.91% 49
North East -26 22 £44,249 +26.42% 25
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 40 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.59%) Confluence
4 15 (1.26%) WordPress
5 14 (1.17%) CMS
6 9 (0.76%) SAS
7 7 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.50%) IIS
9 5 (0.42%) Apache
10 4 (0.34%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) Gentran
12 2 (0.17%) Luigi
12 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.084%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.084%) Jupyter
Applications
1 57 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.42%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.25%) Simulink
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Stateflow
10 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.084%) Blender
10 1 (0.084%) InDesign
10 1 (0.084%) Maya
10 1 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.17%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.084%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.084%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.084%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 227 (19.04%) Azure
2 158 (13.26%) AWS
3 110 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 104 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (4.95%) GCP
6 47 (3.94%) SaaS
7 42 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 39 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.77%) Serverless
10 30 (2.52%) GitHub
11 24 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (1.85%) Google Analytics
14 17 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.34%) Figma
16 14 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (1.17%) Boomi
17 12 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (0.92%) OpenShift
18 11 (0.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.70%) Firewall
2 37 (3.10%) Network Security
3 36 (3.02%) VPN
4 33 (2.77%) VLAN
4 33 (2.77%) WAN
5 30 (2.52%) Wireless
6 27 (2.27%) DNS
7 25 (2.10%) LAN
8 22 (1.85%) BGP
8 22 (1.85%) DHCP
9 19 (1.59%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.51%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (1.43%) OSPF
11 17 (1.43%) SNMP
12 16 (1.34%) Broadband
12 16 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.34%) Cisco Wireless
12 16 (1.34%) EIGRP
12 16 (1.34%) WAAS
12 16 (1.34%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (8.56%) Power BI
2 27 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.10%) Tableau
4 23 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (1.68%) BigQuery
6 17 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.26%) GIS
7 15 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (1.17%) Big Data
8 14 (1.17%) Metadata
8 14 (1.17%) MySQL
9 11 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.50%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.42%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.34%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 63 (5.29%) Git
2 47 (3.94%) JIRA
3 27 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.34%) GitLab
5 9 (0.76%) Postman
6 5 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.34%) Selenium
7 4 (0.34%) Subversion
7 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.17%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.17%) MSTest
9 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.17%) Storybook
9 2 (0.17%) TestRail
10 1 (0.084%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.084%) JUnit
10 1 (0.084%) Qt Creator
General
1 498 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 312 (26.17%) Finance
3 235 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (10.32%) Marketing
5 121 (10.15%) Organisational Skills
6 89 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 86 (7.21%) Public Sector
8 79 (6.63%) Law
9 78 (6.54%) Legal
10 63 (5.29%) Aerospace
11 55 (4.61%) Telecoms
12 54 (4.53%) Retail
13 36 (3.02%) Manufacturing
14 33 (2.77%) Banking
15 29 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (2.27%) Electronics
16 27 (2.27%) Military
17 21 (1.76%) Billing
18 20 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (14.01%) Senior
2 115 (9.65%) Analyst
3 90 (7.55%) Developer
4 69 (5.79%) Lead
5 49 (4.11%) Architect
6 48 (4.03%) Consultant
7 45 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
8 44 (3.69%) Support Engineer
9 39 (3.27%) Software Engineer
10 38 (3.19%) IT Support
11 35 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (2.85%) IT Manager
13 33 (2.77%) Senior Manager
14 27 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
15 26 (2.18%) Senior Developer
16 24 (2.01%) Network Engineer
17 23 (1.93%) Applications Developer
18 22 (1.85%) Technical Manager
19 21 (1.76%) Solutions Architect
19 21 (1.76%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.28%) .NET
2 39 (3.27%) REST
3 36 (3.02%) React
4 35 (2.94%) Node.js
5 30 (2.52%) HTML
6 29 (2.43%) .NET Core
7 27 (2.27%) JSON
8 26 (2.18%) XML
9 25 (2.10%) CSS
10 20 (1.68%) EDI
11 18 (1.51%) Middleware
12 14 (1.17%) Next.js
12 14 (1.17%) Vue
13 13 (1.09%) AngularJS
13 13 (1.09%) RESTful
13 13 (1.09%) SOAP
14 12 (1.01%) ASP.NET
14 12 (1.01%) AWS CDK
14 12 (1.01%) OAuth
15 10 (0.84%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (5.20%) Onboarding
2 51 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 48 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.44%) Cloud Native
5 38 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (3.02%) Social Media
7 35 (2.94%) Driving Licence
8 28 (2.35%) Data Structures
9 23 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 23 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 22 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 16 (1.34%) Blog
13 15 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.09%) NHS
16 11 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.92%) CCTV
16 11 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 105 (8.81%) Windows
2 57 (4.78%) Linux
3 38 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.84%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (0.59%) CentOS
5 7 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.50%) Android
6 6 (0.50%) Debian
6 6 (0.50%) Unix
7 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.34%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.084%) Rocky
10 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 257 (21.56%) Agile
4 159 (13.34%) Decision-Making
5 148 (12.42%) Analytics
6 144 (12.08%) Mentoring
7 128 (10.74%) AI
8 118 (9.90%) CI/CD
8 118 (9.90%) DevOps
9 116 (9.73%) Roadmaps
9 116 (9.73%) Service Delivery
10 110 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 106 (8.89%) Computer Science
11 106 (8.89%) Validation
12 100 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
13 95 (7.97%) Customer Service
14 94 (7.89%) Project Delivery
15 90 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
16 89 (7.47%) CRM
17 87 (7.30%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 144 (12.08%) Python
2 138 (11.58%) SQL
3 57 (4.78%) C#
4 49 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 47 (3.94%) Java
6 40 (3.36%) PowerShell
7 37 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.51%) C
9 16 (1.34%) C++
10 14 (1.17%) Bash
11 13 (1.09%) PHP
11 13 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.92%) Embedded C
13 9 (0.76%) VBA
14 8 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.67%) Scala
14 8 (0.67%) VB
15 7 (0.59%) Bicep
16 6 (0.50%) Go
16 6 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 216 (18.12%) Degree
2 128 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 54 (4.53%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.19%) DBS Check
5 47 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.36%) CISSP
6 40 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.19%) ACCA
8 33 (2.77%) CIMA
9 31 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (2.18%) PMI Certification
11 24 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (1.85%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.85%) PMP
13 20 (1.68%) CCNP
14 19 (1.59%) CCIE
15 15 (1.26%) CISM
16 13 (1.09%) HND
16 13 (1.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.21%) QA
3 50 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (2.60%) PMO
6 29 (2.43%) GDPR
7 28 (2.35%) NIST
8 27 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (1.34%) GAAP
10 12 (1.01%) TickIT
11 10 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.84%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.84%) SLA
12 7 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.59%) WCAG
13 5 (0.42%) GRC
14 4 (0.34%) Def Stans
System Software
1 57 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.27%) Docker
3 16 (1.34%) ProxySG
4 15 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.17%) Firmware
6 12 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.25%) vSphere
10 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.084%) ClearTrust
11 1 (0.084%) XenApp
11 1 (0.084%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 50 (4.19%) Terraform
3 30 (2.52%) Ansible
4 19 (1.59%) SCCM
5 14 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.59%) Puppet
6 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.42%) Argo
9 4 (0.34%) Backup Exec
9 4 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.34%) Rancher
9 4 (0.34%) ServiceCenter
9 4 (0.34%) yum
10 3 (0.25%) Grafana
10 3 (0.25%) Kibana
10 3 (0.25%) Plesk
11 2 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 257 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.03%) Google
3 41 (3.44%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.02%) Cisco
5 33 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 21 (1.76%) VMware
7 20 (1.68%) Adobe
8 18 (1.51%) Remedy
9 17 (1.43%) Infoblox
9 17 (1.43%) SolarWinds
10 16 (1.34%) Blue Coat
10 16 (1.34%) CheckPoint
10 16 (1.34%) F5
10 16 (1.34%) Motorola
11 15 (1.26%) SAP
12 14 (1.17%) Oracle
13 12 (1.01%) Databricks
14 10 (0.84%) Pardot
15 9 (0.76%) HubSpot
15 9 (0.76%) Red Hat