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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -37 +9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 972 1,535 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.87% 3.10% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 3.43% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 619 784 961
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +7.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £49,429 £59,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.22% +18.00% -19.87%

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 42,885 44,702 41,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.30% 90.14% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,602 22,418 32,186
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 -40 280 £62,500 -0.60% 213
South East -44 173 £35,000 -41.67% 331
Midlands -2 153 £40,000 -27.27% 246
North of England -40 152 £42,500 -15.00% 325
West Midlands -3 108 £30,000 -47.83% 117
South West +18 103 £52,500 +8.25% 161
North West -12 100 £42,500 -15.00% 165
East of England -29 81 £47,500 -6.80% 180
East Midlands -21 45 £42,500 -15.00% 118
Yorkshire -42 30 £42,455 -5.66% 134
North East -2 22 £29,000 -53.88% 28
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 39 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.26%) Confluence
4 11 (1.13%) WordPress
5 5 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.51%) IIS
6 4 (0.41%) 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 86 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.82%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.51%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.41%) 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 10 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.51%) Infor SunSystems
3 5 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.21%) C-CURE
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%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.10%) assyst
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (17.28%) Azure
2 96 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (8.44%) AWS
4 69 (7.10%) Power Platform
5 48 (4.94%) Entra ID
6 27 (2.78%) Azure AI
7 25 (2.57%) SaaS
8 24 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
8 24 (2.47%) GCP
9 21 (2.16%) Vertex AI
10 18 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.44%) GitHub
12 13 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.23%) Serverless
14 10 (1.03%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.03%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.03%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.63%) Firewall
2 36 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 33 (3.40%) Wireless
4 30 (3.09%) DNS
5 26 (2.67%) LAN
5 26 (2.67%) VLAN
6 25 (2.57%) DHCP
6 25 (2.57%) WAN
7 18 (1.85%) VPN
8 16 (1.65%) Broadband
8 16 (1.65%) Network Security
9 10 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.82%) SAN
10 8 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
11 7 (0.72%) Internet
11 7 (0.72%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.72%) VoIP
12 6 (0.62%) BGP
12 6 (0.62%) NAS
13 5 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.56%) Power BI
2 26 (2.67%) Tableau
3 19 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.85%) Looker
5 13 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.13%) Big Data
6 11 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 8 (0.82%) Oracle Database
8 8 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.82%) Power Query
8 8 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.72%) Hadoop
9 7 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.51%) Metadata
12 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (3.19%) JIRA
2 29 (2.98%) Git
3 13 (1.34%) GitLab
4 12 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.41%) Selenium
6 4 (0.41%) TestRail
7 3 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.31%) Subversion
8 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.21%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.21%) Storybook
9 1 (0.10%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) gulp
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 502 (51.65%) Social Skills
2 227 (23.35%) Finance
3 212 (21.81%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (18.11%) Marketing
5 93 (9.57%) Law
6 79 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
7 67 (6.89%) Telecoms
8 56 (5.76%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.14%) Aerospace
9 50 (5.14%) Retail
10 48 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (3.91%) Billing
12 37 (3.81%) Banking
13 35 (3.60%) Legal
13 35 (3.60%) Military
14 33 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (3.40%) Manufacturing
15 29 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (2.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 112 (11.52%) Analyst
2 89 (9.16%) Lead
3 76 (7.82%) Senior
4 73 (7.51%) IT Support
5 57 (5.86%) Developer
6 49 (5.04%) Business Analyst
7 37 (3.81%) Architect
7 37 (3.81%) Support Engineer
8 36 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
9 35 (3.60%) Consultant
10 30 (3.09%) Digital Analyst
11 29 (2.98%) Coordinator
12 25 (2.57%) Administrator
12 25 (2.57%) Digital Business Analyst
12 25 (2.57%) Technical Support
13 24 (2.47%) Junior
14 22 (2.26%) Data Analyst
14 22 (2.26%) IT Engineer
14 22 (2.26%) Technical Director
15 20 (2.06%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.73%) .NET
2 40 (4.12%) HTML
3 19 (1.95%) React
4 18 (1.85%) RESTful
5 13 (1.34%) AngularJS
5 13 (1.34%) CSS
6 12 (1.23%) Middleware
7 10 (1.03%) .NET Core
8 8 (0.82%) Kafka
8 8 (0.82%) Node.js
9 7 (0.72%) Spring
9 7 (0.72%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.51%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.51%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.51%) EDI
10 5 (0.51%) REST
10 5 (0.51%) Web Services
11 4 (0.41%) Django
11 4 (0.41%) HTML5
11 4 (0.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 105 (10.80%) Onboarding
2 72 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (4.73%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 30 (3.09%) Social Media
6 23 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.26%) Life Science
8 21 (2.16%) Pharmacovigilance
9 19 (1.95%) FMCG
10 17 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.54%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 12 (1.23%) Cloud Native
14 11 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.13%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.82%) Client/Server
16 8 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (9.16%) Windows
2 45 (4.63%) Windows Server
3 26 (2.67%) Linux
4 15 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.41%) CentOS
8 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.41%) Unix
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.31%) AIX
9 3 (0.31%) Android
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.31%) Debian
10 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (28.91%) Problem-Solving
2 201 (20.68%) Agile
3 179 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 116 (11.93%) Project Management
5 102 (10.49%) Analytics
6 96 (9.88%) Coaching
7 93 (9.57%) CRM
8 89 (9.16%) Customer Service
9 88 (9.05%) Decision-Making
10 87 (8.95%) B2B
11 80 (8.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 79 (8.13%) Project Delivery
13 78 (8.02%) E-Commerce
13 78 (8.02%) Process Improvement
14 77 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
14 77 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
14 77 (7.92%) Service Delivery
15 75 (7.72%) Digital Marketing
16 72 (7.41%) Customer Experience
17 71 (7.30%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (9.26%) SQL
2 60 (6.17%) Python
3 48 (4.94%) PowerShell
4 36 (3.70%) Java
5 32 (3.29%) C#
6 25 (2.57%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.65%) VBA
8 13 (1.34%) Bash
9 8 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.62%) C++
10 6 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.41%) Scala
11 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.31%) Go
12 3 (0.31%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) Perl
13 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.21%) Swift
Qualifications
1 266 (27.37%) Degree
2 82 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 47 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.22%) Master's Degree
6 30 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.98%) CISSP
8 27 (2.78%) DBS Check
9 24 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (2.26%) PMI Certification
11 20 (2.06%) PMP
12 16 (1.65%) ACCA
12 16 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.54%) CIMA
14 14 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (1.34%) HND
16 12 (1.23%) CISM
16 12 (1.23%) MCP
17 10 (1.03%) HNC
17 10 (1.03%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.13%) QA
2 52 (5.35%) GDPR
3 48 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 40 (4.12%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (2.37%) EU AI Act
7 22 (2.26%) PMO
8 21 (2.16%) HIPAA
8 21 (2.16%) PSD2
8 21 (2.16%) Solvency II
9 18 (1.85%) NIST
10 13 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (1.23%) SLA
12 9 (0.93%) GRC
13 8 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.72%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 5 (0.51%) ARP4761
16 5 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.34%) Docker
5 7 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.62%) vSphere
7 5 (0.51%) Firmware
8 4 (0.41%) 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 38 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.98%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.78%) Terraform
4 15 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (1.13%) Ansible
7 10 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.93%) Puppet
9 6 (0.62%) Grafana
10 4 (0.41%) 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
1 191 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.32%) SAP
3 39 (4.01%) Google
4 33 (3.40%) VMware
5 30 (3.09%) Cisco
6 29 (2.98%) Oracle
7 23 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.34%) Workday
10 12 (1.23%) BT
10 12 (1.23%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.13%) Adobe
11 11 (1.13%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.13%) Reuters
11 11 (1.13%) Veeam
12 10 (1.03%) Adaptive Insights
12 10 (1.03%) SonicWALL
12 10 (1.03%) WatchGuard
13 9 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.82%) HubSpot