Collaborative Working Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 92 95
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +13
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,162 1,095 1,849
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 3.24% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 3.67% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 774 484 1,221
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,800 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,170 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,462 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +4.13% -10.38%
75th Percentile £61,250 £64,906 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £51,321
% change year-on-year -8.26% +6.20% -9.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,714 29,818 56,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.54% 88.25% 79.92%
Number of salaries quoted 35,727 16,034 38,597
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Collaborative Working.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
South East -22 301 £48,000 +4.35% 146
North of England +10 274 £51,619 +3.24% 133
Midlands -10 231 £42,500 -15.00% 90
North West +34 175 £45,497 -9.01% 68
West Midlands -30 127 £46,042 -13.13% 53
South West -39 116 £38,738 -42.15% 61
East Midlands +24 103 £35,220 -17.13% 37
East of England -67 75 £55,000 +57.14% 53
Wales -12 69 £53,171 +39.58% 9
Yorkshire -12 67 £60,425 +6.48% 40
Scotland +9 50 £35,000 -30.62% 21
Northern Ireland -21 46 - - 7
North East -37 32 £57,500 +64.29% 28
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -
Collaborative Working
UK

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 62 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.29%) Confluence
4 10 (0.86%) WordPress
5 8 (0.69%) SAS
6 6 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.43%) Apache
8 4 (0.34%) CMS
8 4 (0.34%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.26%) IIS
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 2 (0.17%) Gentran
10 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.17%) Luigi
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 63 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.43%) Fusion 360
7 4 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.34%) Simulink
7 4 (0.34%) Sketch
8 3 (0.26%) Stateflow
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.086%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.086%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.43%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.086%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.086%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.086%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.086%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.086%) Shopify
7 1 (0.086%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 256 (22.03%) Azure
2 146 (12.56%) Microsoft 365
3 130 (11.19%) AWS
4 110 (9.47%) Power Platform
5 93 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 65 (5.59%) SaaS
7 54 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (3.96%) Serverless
9 33 (2.84%) GCP
10 30 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (2.32%) GitHub
12 26 (2.24%) Power Automate
13 22 (1.89%) PowerApps
14 19 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.29%) OCI
16 14 (1.20%) Google Analytics
16 14 (1.20%) Snowflake
17 13 (1.12%) Boomi
18 12 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.16%) Firewall
2 33 (2.84%) DNS
3 29 (2.50%) WAN
4 27 (2.32%) DHCP
4 27 (2.32%) VLAN
5 26 (2.24%) Network Security
5 26 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.24%) VPN
6 20 (1.72%) LAN
7 18 (1.55%) Wireless
8 16 (1.38%) VoIP
9 13 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.86%) BGP
11 9 (0.77%) Broadband
11 9 (0.77%) Internet
12 8 (0.69%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.60%) SNMP
13 7 (0.60%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.52%) SMS
14 6 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.31%) Power BI
2 46 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (1.72%) MySQL
5 17 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.29%) Big Data
6 15 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.29%) Tableau
7 14 (1.20%) Redis
8 13 (1.12%) GIS
9 11 (0.95%) Metadata
10 10 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
10 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.60%) Power Query
12 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.43%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.43%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.34%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 44 (3.79%) JIRA
2 43 (3.70%) Git
3 16 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.03%) GitLab
5 8 (0.69%) Postman
6 4 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.26%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.26%) MSI
7 3 (0.26%) Selenium
8 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.17%) MSTest
8 2 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.17%) RSpec
8 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.086%) Maven
9 1 (0.086%) Mocha
9 1 (0.086%) Qt Creator
9 1 (0.086%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.086%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 587 (50.52%) Social Skills
2 231 (19.88%) Analytical Skills
3 203 (17.47%) Finance
4 105 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 100 (8.61%) Marketing
6 98 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
7 94 (8.09%) Legal
8 78 (6.71%) Law
9 71 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (5.94%) Aerospace
11 54 (4.65%) Retail
12 46 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (3.79%) Manufacturing
14 36 (3.10%) Electronics
15 33 (2.84%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.55%) Local Government
18 16 (1.38%) Advertising
19 13 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 190 (16.35%) Senior
2 122 (10.50%) Developer
3 110 (9.47%) Analyst
4 75 (6.45%) Lead
5 72 (6.20%) Senior Manager
6 57 (4.91%) IT Support
7 53 (4.56%) Support Engineer
8 43 (3.70%) Consultant
9 42 (3.61%) Systems Engineer
10 39 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 37 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
12 35 (3.01%) Business Analyst
12 35 (3.01%) Senior Developer
13 32 (2.75%) Architect
14 30 (2.58%) IT Engineer
15 29 (2.50%) IT Analyst
16 28 (2.41%) Software Developer
17 27 (2.32%) Development Manager
17 27 (2.32%) IT Manager
17 27 (2.32%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (4.82%) Node.js
2 44 (3.79%) HTML
3 42 (3.61%) .NET
4 40 (3.44%) React
5 35 (3.01%) CSS
5 35 (3.01%) REST
6 28 (2.41%) JSON
6 28 (2.41%) Vue
7 26 (2.24%) XML
8 22 (1.89%) SOAP
9 19 (1.64%) .NET Core
10 17 (1.46%) Next.js
11 15 (1.29%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.29%) EDI
12 14 (1.20%) Middleware
13 13 (1.12%) AWS CDK
13 13 (1.12%) RESTful
14 11 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
15 10 (0.86%) .NET Framework
15 10 (0.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.88%) Onboarding
2 76 (6.54%) Driving Licence
3 73 (6.28%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 35 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.55%) NHS
9 15 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.20%) EPoS
10 14 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.20%) Social Media
11 13 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.03%) PMI
12 12 (1.03%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.95%) Analogue Electronics
14 10 (0.86%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.86%) Blog
14 10 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.21%) Windows
2 59 (5.08%) Linux
3 41 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.12%) FreeRTOS
5 12 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.60%) CentOS
7 7 (0.60%) Unix
7 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.52%) Debian
9 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Android
11 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.26%) VMS
12 1 (0.086%) AIX
12 1 (0.086%) Rocky
12 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (38.73%) Problem-Solving
2 403 (34.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 282 (24.27%) Agile
4 191 (16.44%) Mentoring
5 163 (14.03%) Decision-Making
6 146 (12.56%) AI
7 139 (11.96%) Customer Service
8 138 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 134 (11.53%) Cybersecurity
10 126 (10.84%) Analytics
10 126 (10.84%) ITIL
11 122 (10.50%) Service Delivery
12 118 (10.15%) CI/CD
13 117 (10.07%) DevOps
14 110 (9.47%) CRM
15 98 (8.43%) Validation
16 97 (8.35%) Roadmaps
17 96 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
18 86 (7.40%) Project Delivery
19 83 (7.14%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 135 (11.62%) SQL
2 109 (9.38%) Python
3 72 (6.20%) JavaScript
4 61 (5.25%) C#
5 56 (4.82%) TypeScript
6 38 (3.27%) PowerShell
7 37 (3.18%) Java
8 22 (1.89%) C
9 18 (1.55%) PHP
10 15 (1.29%) Embedded C
11 14 (1.20%) ABAP
11 14 (1.20%) C++
12 12 (1.03%) Bash
13 11 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.95%) VBA
14 10 (0.86%) Bicep
14 10 (0.86%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.43%) Embedded C++
17 4 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 197 (16.95%) Degree
2 114 (9.81%) Security Cleared
3 53 (4.56%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.30%) CISM
4 50 (4.30%) CISSP
5 46 (3.96%) Network+ Certification
6 45 (3.87%) A+ Certification
7 38 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (2.75%) DBS Check
10 20 (1.72%) PMI Certification
11 17 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.29%) PMP
13 12 (1.03%) CCNP
13 12 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.95%) HNC
14 11 (0.95%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.94%) Accessibility
2 65 (5.59%) QA
3 56 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.98%) PMO
6 21 (1.81%) GDPR
7 13 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (1.03%) TickIT
9 10 (0.86%) Good Clinical Practice
9 10 (0.86%) WCAG
10 9 (0.77%) SLA
11 7 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 7 (0.60%) NIST
12 6 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.43%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.34%) IEC 61508
14 4 (0.34%) NCSC
15 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.26%) PERC
System Software
1 109 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.41%) Docker
3 23 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.46%) Firmware
5 14 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.43%) ClearTrust
9 4 (0.34%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.17%) vSphere
11 1 (0.086%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.086%) XenApp
11 1 (0.086%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (4.04%) Terraform
3 40 (3.44%) Kubernetes
4 23 (1.98%) Ansible
5 14 (1.20%) SCCM
6 8 (0.69%) Puppet
7 5 (0.43%) Grafana
8 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.26%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.26%) Plesk
9 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.17%) Argo
10 2 (0.17%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (0.17%) Control-M
10 2 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.17%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.17%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 339 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.87%) CyberArk
3 40 (3.44%) Salesforce
4 29 (2.50%) Google
5 28 (2.41%) SAP
6 24 (2.07%) Cisco
7 19 (1.64%) Oracle
8 17 (1.46%) VMware
9 14 (1.20%) Remedy
10 13 (1.12%) Adobe
10 13 (1.12%) Databricks
10 13 (1.12%) HubSpot
11 12 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.86%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.77%) iManage
14 9 (0.77%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.77%) SolarWinds
15 7 (0.60%) Meraki
15 7 (0.60%) Sage