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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 83 68
Rank change year-on-year -44 -15 +11
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 682 1,140 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.63% 3.17% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 3.56% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 444 537 1,003
10th Percentile £26,560 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,359 £26,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £53,000 £39,634
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% +33.72% -31.44%
75th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £88,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £48,250 £59,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.22% +24.21% -24.00%

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 32,958 31,987 30,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.54% 88.93% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,919 14,386 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 12 January 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 12 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
South East -52 169 £35,000 -44.00% 198
North of England -34 159 £42,500 -15.00% 123
Midlands -18 138 £40,000 -25.93% 85
North West 0 103 £42,500 -15.00% 52
West Midlands -9 93 £30,000 -45.45% 37
South West +8 89 £49,499 -3.89% 86
East of England -25 79 £48,750 -4.35% 87
East Midlands -14 45 £42,500 -15.00% 47
Yorkshire -48 33 £42,500 -6.59% 50
Scotland -35 32 £26,000 -56.67% 17
North East 0 23 £29,000 -35.56% 22
Wales -38 10 £49,359 +51.87% 35
Northern Ireland -8 7 - - 11
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 25 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.17%) Confluence
3 8 (1.17%) WordPress
4 3 (0.44%) Apache
4 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 72 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.17%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.73%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.59%) SketchUp
7 3 (0.44%) Windchill
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.29%) Simulink
9 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.15%) InDesign
9 1 (0.15%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) assyst
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 114 (16.72%) Azure
2 79 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (7.04%) AWS
3 48 (7.04%) Power Platform
4 25 (3.67%) Entra ID
5 19 (2.79%) SaaS
6 13 (1.91%) GCP
7 11 (1.61%) Serverless
8 9 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.32%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.03%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.03%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.73%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.99%) Firewall
2 26 (3.81%) Wireless
3 22 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 22 (3.23%) VLAN
4 18 (2.64%) Broadband
5 16 (2.35%) VPN
6 13 (1.91%) DNS
7 12 (1.76%) DHCP
8 11 (1.61%) Network Security
9 9 (1.32%) LAN
9 9 (1.32%) WAN
10 7 (1.03%) SAN
10 7 (1.03%) VoIP
11 6 (0.88%) Internet
11 6 (0.88%) NAS
11 6 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.73%) BGP
12 5 (0.73%) MPLS
12 5 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.59%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.87%) Power BI
2 17 (2.49%) Looker
2 17 (2.49%) Tableau
3 12 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.32%) Power Query
5 7 (1.03%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.88%) Big Data
7 5 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.59%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.59%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.44%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.44%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.29%) IBM InfoSphere
10 2 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (2.05%) Git
1 14 (2.05%) JIRA
2 7 (1.03%) GitLab
3 6 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.59%) Selenium
4 4 (0.59%) TestRail
5 3 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.44%) Subversion
6 2 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) gulp
7 1 (0.15%) JUnit
7 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 326 (47.80%) Social Skills
2 126 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (15.84%) Marketing
4 91 (13.34%) Finance
5 77 (11.29%) Law
6 64 (9.38%) Telecoms
7 54 (7.92%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (6.45%) Aerospace
9 37 (5.43%) Military
10 29 (4.25%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (3.52%) Public Sector
12 23 (3.37%) Billing
13 22 (3.23%) Retail
14 19 (2.79%) Manufacturing
15 17 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (2.35%) Aviation
17 14 (2.05%) Legal
17 14 (2.05%) Local Government
18 13 (1.91%) Electronics
19 12 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (11.00%) Analyst
2 48 (7.04%) IT Support
3 47 (6.89%) Senior
4 44 (6.45%) Lead
5 37 (5.43%) Consultant
6 36 (5.28%) Developer
7 31 (4.55%) Support Engineer
8 30 (4.40%) Business Analyst
9 29 (4.25%) Digital Analyst
10 28 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
11 27 (3.96%) Coordinator
12 25 (3.67%) Digital Business Analyst
13 23 (3.37%) Technical Support
14 22 (3.23%) Architect
15 19 (2.79%) Administrator
15 19 (2.79%) Technical Engineer
15 19 (2.79%) Technical Support Engineer
16 17 (2.49%) Recruitment Consultant
17 16 (2.35%) Account Manager
17 16 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.13%) HTML
2 22 (3.23%) .NET
3 18 (2.64%) React
4 11 (1.61%) .NET Core
5 8 (1.17%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.17%) CSS
6 7 (1.03%) Spring
6 7 (1.03%) Spring Boot
7 6 (0.88%) Node.js
8 5 (0.73%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.73%) REST
9 4 (0.59%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.59%) Middleware
9 4 (0.59%) RESTful
9 4 (0.59%) Web Services
10 3 (0.44%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (0.44%) EDI
10 3 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.29%) Onboarding
2 49 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (4.99%) Driving Licence
3 34 (4.99%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.23%) Social Media
5 17 (2.49%) FMCG
6 15 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.47%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.32%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.03%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.88%) Multi-touch
11 6 (0.88%) Pricing Data
12 5 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.73%) Digital Signage
12 5 (0.73%) IoT
12 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.73%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.53%) Windows
2 20 (2.93%) Linux
2 20 (2.93%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.47%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.59%) CentOS
5 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.59%) Unix
6 3 (0.44%) AIX
6 3 (0.44%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (28.15%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 127 (18.62%) Agile
4 79 (11.58%) CRM
5 76 (11.14%) B2B
6 70 (10.26%) E-Commerce
7 68 (9.97%) Coaching
7 68 (9.97%) Customer Service
8 67 (9.82%) Project Management
9 63 (9.24%) Customer Experience
10 61 (8.94%) Service Delivery
11 60 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
12 58 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (8.06%) Analytics
13 55 (8.06%) Change Management
14 54 (7.92%) Decision-Making
14 54 (7.92%) Process Improvement
15 51 (7.48%) Digital Marketing
16 50 (7.33%) Dashboard Development
17 48 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 60 (8.80%) SQL
2 36 (5.28%) Python
3 24 (3.52%) PowerShell
4 20 (2.93%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.64%) Java
6 17 (2.49%) C#
7 9 (1.32%) VBA
8 7 (1.03%) Bash
9 5 (0.73%) C++
10 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.44%) Go
10 3 (0.44%) PHP
10 3 (0.44%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.29%) R
11 2 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) ABAP
12 1 (0.15%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 168 (24.63%) Degree
2 63 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 39 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.11%) DBS Check
5 21 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.05%) CISSP
8 13 (1.91%) HND
9 11 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.47%) CISM
10 10 (1.47%) HNC
11 9 (1.32%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.17%) ACCA
12 8 (1.17%) CIMA
12 8 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.03%) PMP
14 6 (0.88%) CCIE
14 6 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (0.88%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.04%) QA
2 39 (5.72%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.20%) GDPR
6 14 (2.05%) NIST
7 13 (1.91%) PMO
8 10 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.03%) GRC
9 7 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.73%) ARP4761
11 5 (0.73%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.73%) SLA
12 4 (0.59%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.59%) NCSC
13 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.44%) RMADS
14 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (8.36%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.08%) Hyper-V
3 19 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.03%) Docker
4 7 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.88%) vSphere
6 5 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.59%) ProxySG
8 3 (0.44%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 30 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.35%) Terraform
4 9 (1.32%) Ansible
4 9 (1.32%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.59%) Grafana
5 4 (0.59%) Puppet
6 3 (0.44%) Argo
6 3 (0.44%) cPanel
6 3 (0.44%) Netcool
6 3 (0.44%) Plesk
6 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.44%) Rancher
6 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.44%) yum
7 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) Nessus
8 1 (0.15%) SCCM
8 1 (0.15%) WMI
8 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 151 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.96%) Cisco
3 26 (3.81%) VMware
4 20 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 13 (1.91%) SAP
6 11 (1.61%) BT
7 10 (1.47%) Google
7 10 (1.47%) HubSpot
7 10 (1.47%) Oracle
7 10 (1.47%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.32%) SonicWALL
8 9 (1.32%) Veeam
8 9 (1.32%) WatchGuard
9 8 (1.17%) Adobe
9 8 (1.17%) Apple
10 7 (1.03%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.03%) Sage
10 7 (1.03%) SolarWinds
11 6 (0.88%) Zoho