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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 92 91
Rank change year-on-year -44 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 952 1,397 2,065
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.57% 3.20% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 3.45% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 610 732 1,523
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,100 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63,419 £81,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,899 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -20.83%

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 48,095 40,444 58,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.20% 92.67% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,525 20,215 46,647
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,404 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,813 £46,250 £40,113
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -46 282 £60,000 -7.69% 151
South East -34 196 £42,500 -34.62% 142
North of England -49 168 £45,000 -10.05% 112
Midlands -37 113 £42,500 -20.93% 72
North West -20 97 £47,500 -13.64% 69
South West -10 79 £45,750 -14.08% 52
East of England -35 75 £55,000 +7.91% 33
West Midlands -52 60 £30,000 -45.45% 46
East Midlands -17 53 £42,500 -12.82% 25
Yorkshire -47 49 £42,500 -10.53% 29
North East -20 22 £47,875 +36.79% 16
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 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.84%) Confluence
4 11 (1.16%) WordPress
5 9 (0.95%) CMS
5 9 (0.95%) IIS
6 7 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.42%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 56 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.84%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.42%) SketchUp
8 3 (0.32%) Trello
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.21%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 206 (21.64%) Azure
2 118 (12.39%) AWS
3 101 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (8.40%) Power Platform
5 45 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 42 (4.41%) GCP
7 36 (3.78%) SaaS
8 25 (2.63%) Azure AI
9 24 (2.52%) Amazon SageMaker
9 24 (2.52%) Vertex AI
10 19 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.00%) Serverless
11 16 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.58%) GitHub
13 14 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.47%) OpenShift
14 13 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
14 13 (1.37%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.57%) Firewall
2 37 (3.89%) Wireless
3 36 (3.78%) VPN
4 33 (3.47%) DNS
4 33 (3.47%) VLAN
5 28 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 27 (2.84%) WAN
7 26 (2.73%) DHCP
8 25 (2.63%) LAN
9 24 (2.52%) Network Security
10 18 (1.89%) BGP
11 13 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
11 13 (1.37%) OSPF
12 12 (1.26%) Broadband
12 12 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (1.26%) Cisco Wireless
12 12 (1.26%) EIGRP
12 12 (1.26%) SNMP
12 12 (1.26%) WAAS
12 12 (1.26%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.14%) Power BI
2 25 (2.63%) Tableau
3 24 (2.52%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.89%) Looker
5 15 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (1.16%) Big Data
8 11 (1.16%) MySQL
8 11 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 8 (0.84%) Power Query
9 8 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.63%) Metadata
11 6 (0.63%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (4.31%) Git
2 39 (4.10%) JIRA
3 20 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.79%) GitLab
5 7 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.53%) Subversion
7 4 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.42%) Selenium
7 4 (0.42%) TestRail
7 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.21%) Postman
9 2 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.21%) Storybook
10 1 (0.11%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.11%) gulp
10 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 458 (48.11%) Social Skills
2 237 (24.89%) Finance
3 185 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (14.39%) Marketing
5 98 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
6 81 (8.51%) Law
7 58 (6.09%) Telecoms
8 57 (5.99%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.25%) Aerospace
9 50 (5.25%) Legal
10 42 (4.41%) Retail
11 40 (4.20%) Banking
12 36 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (3.68%) Military
14 32 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (2.94%) Billing
16 27 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (2.42%) Manufacturing
19 21 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (11.24%) Analyst
2 103 (10.82%) Senior
3 68 (7.14%) Developer
4 66 (6.93%) Lead
5 60 (6.30%) IT Support
6 45 (4.73%) Support Engineer
7 44 (4.62%) Architect
8 38 (3.99%) Business Analyst
8 38 (3.99%) Consultant
9 31 (3.26%) Account Manager
9 31 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
10 26 (2.73%) Data Analyst
10 26 (2.73%) Digital Analyst
10 26 (2.73%) Senior Manager
11 24 (2.52%) Coordinator
12 23 (2.42%) IT Engineer
12 23 (2.42%) Junior
12 23 (2.42%) Technical Support
13 22 (2.31%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.46%) .NET
2 43 (4.52%) HTML
3 29 (3.05%) React
4 21 (2.21%) .NET Core
5 20 (2.10%) CSS
6 16 (1.68%) RESTful
7 14 (1.47%) Middleware
8 13 (1.37%) AngularJS
9 11 (1.16%) Spring
10 10 (1.05%) Node.js
10 10 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 9 (0.95%) JSON
11 9 (0.95%) OAuth
11 9 (0.95%) REST
11 9 (0.95%) XML
12 8 (0.84%) Kafka
13 7 (0.74%) ASP.NET
13 7 (0.74%) Next.js
13 7 (0.74%) OpenID
14 6 (0.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.35%) Onboarding
2 52 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 46 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.89%) Driving Licence
5 36 (3.78%) Social Media
6 30 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.42%) Life Science
9 22 (2.31%) Cloud Native
10 21 (2.21%) Pharmacovigilance
11 18 (1.89%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.89%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.68%) FMCG
13 13 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 12 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.05%) Blog
15 10 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.95%) NHS
16 9 (0.95%) PKI
16 9 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 97 (10.19%) Windows
2 39 (4.10%) Linux
3 36 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.84%) Unix
5 8 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.53%) CentOS
7 5 (0.53%) Debian
7 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.42%) Android
8 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.32%) AIX
9 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (30.04%) Problem-Solving
2 228 (23.95%) Agile
3 180 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (13.13%) Analytics
5 102 (10.71%) AI
6 96 (10.08%) Computer Science
7 91 (9.56%) Decision-Making
8 87 (9.14%) Service Delivery
9 83 (8.72%) DevOps
9 83 (8.72%) Mentoring
10 80 (8.40%) Project Delivery
11 78 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
12 77 (8.09%) Project Management
13 76 (7.98%) Coaching
14 75 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
15 74 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 73 (7.67%) CRM
17 70 (7.35%) Customer Service
18 68 (7.14%) Process Improvement
19 67 (7.04%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 105 (11.03%) Python
2 94 (9.87%) SQL
3 50 (5.25%) PowerShell
4 43 (4.52%) C#
4 43 (4.52%) Java
5 35 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.68%) Bash
7 14 (1.47%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.05%) VBA
9 9 (0.95%) C++
9 9 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.63%) Go
10 6 (0.63%) Scala
10 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
11 5 (0.53%) PHP
12 4 (0.42%) Bicep
12 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.42%) VB
12 4 (0.42%) VBScript
13 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 198 (20.80%) Degree
2 113 (11.87%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 51 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 39 (4.10%) DBS Check
7 35 (3.68%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.84%) CISSP
9 26 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.68%) PMI Certification
13 14 (1.47%) CCIE
13 14 (1.47%) CCNP
13 14 (1.47%) CISM
13 14 (1.47%) PMP
14 12 (1.26%) HND
15 9 (0.95%) CRISC
15 9 (0.95%) HNC
16 8 (0.84%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.46%) QA
2 56 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 47 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 44 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (4.41%) GDPR
6 23 (2.42%) EU AI Act
6 23 (2.42%) PMO
7 21 (2.21%) HIPAA
7 21 (2.21%) PSD2
7 21 (2.21%) Solvency II
8 19 (2.00%) NIST
9 15 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (1.58%) SLA
10 9 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.74%) GRC
11 7 (0.74%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.53%) ARP4761
12 5 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 78 (8.19%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.52%) Docker
2 24 (2.52%) Hyper-V
3 21 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.26%) ProxySG
5 6 (0.63%) Firmware
5 6 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.32%) vSphere
8 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.11%) KVM
9 1 (0.11%) pfSense
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.11%) XenApp
9 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.89%) Terraform
3 25 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (2.42%) Ansible
5 11 (1.16%) Puppet
6 9 (0.95%) SCCM
7 8 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.63%) Argo
9 6 (0.63%) Grafana
10 5 (0.53%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.53%) Rancher
10 5 (0.53%) yum
11 4 (0.42%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.32%) cPanel
12 3 (0.32%) Netcool
12 3 (0.32%) Plesk
13 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 189 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.88%) Google
3 35 (3.68%) Cisco
4 33 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 31 (3.26%) VMware
6 22 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.00%) SAP
8 18 (1.89%) Oracle
9 15 (1.58%) Adobe
9 15 (1.58%) SolarWinds
10 13 (1.37%) Infoblox
11 12 (1.26%) Blue Coat
11 12 (1.26%) CheckPoint
11 12 (1.26%) F5
11 12 (1.26%) Motorola
12 11 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.05%) Veeam
14 8 (0.84%) IBM
15 7 (0.74%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.74%) Zoho