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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 91 98
Rank change year-on-year -42 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 961 1,522 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.84% 3.10% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.43% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 615 775 992
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £48,998 £59,000 £49,044
% change year-on-year -16.95% +20.30% -21.40%

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 42,678 44,368 42,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.92% 90.27% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,472 22,014 32,621
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -33 278 £61,250 -2.59% 141
South East -48 172 £35,000 -44.00% 174
North of England -34 156 £42,500 -15.00% 126
Midlands -6 150 £40,000 -25.93% 93
West Midlands 0 105 £30,000 -47.83% 51
North West -3 103 £42,500 -15.00% 58
South West +12 98 £52,500 +9.38% 69
East of England -26 79 £47,500 -6.80% 64
East Midlands -18 45 £42,500 -15.00% 39
Yorkshire -50 31 £42,500 -5.56% 49
North East +2 22 £29,000 -53.88% 20
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 38 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.29%) Confluence
4 11 (1.14%) WordPress
5 5 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.52%) IIS
6 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.31%) Apache
7 3 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.10%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 84 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.83%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.52%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.42%) SketchUp
7 3 (0.31%) Windchill
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.21%) Simulink
8 2 (0.21%) Sketch
8 2 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) InDesign
9 1 (0.10%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) NetSuite
1 7 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.52%) Infor SunSystems
3 5 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.10%) assyst
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.10%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 169 (17.59%) Azure
2 93 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (8.64%) AWS
4 68 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 47 (4.89%) Entra ID
6 27 (2.81%) Azure AI
7 25 (2.60%) GCP
7 25 (2.60%) SaaS
8 24 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
9 21 (2.19%) Vertex AI
10 19 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.46%) GitHub
13 12 (1.25%) Serverless
14 10 (1.04%) OpenShift
15 9 (0.94%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.94%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.58%) Firewall
2 35 (3.64%) TCP/IP
3 33 (3.43%) Wireless
4 29 (3.02%) DNS
5 27 (2.81%) VLAN
6 25 (2.60%) LAN
7 24 (2.50%) DHCP
7 24 (2.50%) WAN
8 18 (1.87%) VPN
9 16 (1.66%) Broadband
10 15 (1.56%) Network Security
11 10 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (0.83%) SAN
14 7 (0.73%) Internet
14 7 (0.73%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.73%) VoIP
15 6 (0.62%) BGP
15 6 (0.62%) NAS
16 5 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.52%) Power BI
2 26 (2.71%) Tableau
3 19 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.87%) Looker
5 13 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.14%) Big Data
7 10 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.94%) Power Query
8 9 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.83%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.73%) Hadoop
11 6 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.62%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.52%) Metadata
13 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.42%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 30 (3.12%) JIRA
2 29 (3.02%) Git
3 13 (1.35%) GitLab
4 12 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.42%) Selenium
6 4 (0.42%) TestRail
7 3 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.31%) Subversion
8 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.21%) Storybook
8 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.10%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.10%) gulp
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 498 (51.82%) Social Skills
2 222 (23.10%) Finance
3 207 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (17.90%) Marketing
5 93 (9.68%) Law
6 81 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (6.66%) Telecoms
8 54 (5.62%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.20%) Retail
10 49 (5.10%) Aerospace
11 48 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (3.95%) Billing
13 37 (3.85%) Banking
14 35 (3.64%) Legal
14 35 (3.64%) Military
15 31 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 31 (3.23%) Manufacturing
16 30 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
18 26 (2.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 114 (11.86%) Analyst
2 89 (9.26%) Lead
3 74 (7.70%) Senior
4 71 (7.39%) IT Support
5 58 (6.04%) Developer
6 47 (4.89%) Business Analyst
7 38 (3.95%) Support Engineer
8 37 (3.85%) Architect
9 36 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
10 33 (3.43%) Consultant
11 30 (3.12%) Digital Analyst
12 28 (2.91%) Coordinator
13 25 (2.60%) Administrator
13 25 (2.60%) Digital Business Analyst
13 25 (2.60%) Technical Support
14 24 (2.50%) Junior
15 23 (2.39%) Data Analyst
16 22 (2.29%) IT Engineer
17 21 (2.19%) Technical Engineer
18 20 (2.08%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.10%) .NET
2 40 (4.16%) HTML
3 19 (1.98%) React
4 18 (1.87%) RESTful
5 13 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 13 (1.35%) CSS
6 12 (1.25%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.25%) Middleware
7 8 (0.83%) Kafka
7 8 (0.83%) Node.js
8 7 (0.73%) Spring
8 7 (0.73%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.52%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.52%) ASP.NET
9 5 (0.52%) EDI
9 5 (0.52%) REST
10 4 (0.42%) Django
10 4 (0.42%) HTML5
10 4 (0.42%) OAuth
10 4 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 105 (10.93%) Onboarding
2 69 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 33 (3.43%) Driving Licence
5 29 (3.02%) Social Media
6 23 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.29%) Life Science
8 21 (2.19%) Pharmacovigilance
9 19 (1.98%) FMCG
10 16 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 13 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.25%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.14%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.04%) Hedge funds
17 9 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 8 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 8 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
18 8 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 89 (9.26%) Windows
2 44 (4.58%) Windows Server
3 26 (2.71%) Linux
4 14 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.42%) CentOS
8 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.42%) Unix
8 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.31%) AIX
9 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Android
10 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (28.51%) Problem-Solving
2 200 (20.81%) Agile
3 182 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 112 (11.65%) Project Management
5 103 (10.72%) Analytics
6 94 (9.78%) Coaching
6 94 (9.78%) CRM
7 85 (8.84%) B2B
7 85 (8.84%) Customer Service
7 85 (8.84%) Decision-Making
8 81 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 78 (8.12%) E-Commerce
10 77 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
10 77 (8.01%) Project Delivery
11 76 (7.91%) Service Delivery
12 74 (7.70%) Business Intelligence
12 74 (7.70%) Digital Marketing
12 74 (7.70%) Process Improvement
13 72 (7.49%) AI
13 72 (7.49%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 88 (9.16%) SQL
2 60 (6.24%) Python
3 48 (4.99%) PowerShell
4 36 (3.75%) Java
5 34 (3.54%) C#
6 25 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.35%) Bash
7 13 (1.35%) VBA
8 8 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.62%) C++
10 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.52%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.42%) Scala
11 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.31%) Go
12 3 (0.31%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) Bicep
13 2 (0.21%) R
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 259 (26.95%) Degree
2 83 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 49 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 30 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.91%) CISSP
7 28 (2.91%) DBS Check
8 25 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.39%) PMI Certification
10 21 (2.19%) PMP
11 16 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.35%) ACCA
13 13 (1.35%) HND
14 12 (1.25%) CIMA
15 11 (1.14%) CISM
15 11 (1.14%) MCP
16 10 (1.04%) HNC
16 10 (1.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.01%) QA
2 50 (5.20%) GDPR
3 48 (4.99%) Accessibility
4 42 (4.37%) Data Quality
5 26 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (2.39%) EU AI Act
7 22 (2.29%) PMO
8 21 (2.19%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.19%) PSD2
8 21 (2.19%) Solvency II
9 18 (1.87%) NIST
10 13 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (1.14%) SLA
12 9 (0.94%) GRC
13 8 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.52%) ARP4761
15 5 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.46%) Docker
5 7 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.62%) vSphere
7 5 (0.52%) Firmware
8 4 (0.42%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) KVM
9 1 (0.10%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 37 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (3.12%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.91%) Terraform
4 14 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (1.14%) Ansible
7 10 (1.04%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.94%) Puppet
9 6 (0.62%) Grafana
10 4 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.31%) Argo
11 3 (0.31%) cPanel
11 3 (0.31%) Netcool
11 3 (0.31%) Plesk
11 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.31%) Rancher
11 3 (0.31%) SCCM
11 3 (0.31%) yum
12 2 (0.21%) Nagios
12 2 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 192 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.06%) Google
3 36 (3.75%) SAP
4 33 (3.43%) VMware
5 30 (3.12%) Cisco
6 25 (2.60%) Oracle
7 24 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.25%) BT
9 12 (1.25%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.14%) Adobe
10 11 (1.14%) Veeam
11 10 (1.04%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.04%) Reuters
11 10 (1.04%) SonicWALL
11 10 (1.04%) WatchGuard
11 10 (1.04%) Workday
12 9 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.83%) HubSpot
13 8 (0.83%) Red Hat