Collaborative Culture Job Trends

Culture of Collaboration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Collaborative Culture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 256 279
Rank change year-on-year +121 +23 +58
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Culture 1,123 704 620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.15% 1.05% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.26% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 808 266 391
10th Percentile £30,000 £39,875 £39,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £48,750 £47,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,217 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% -3.70% -0.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,560 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.79% +0.10% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Culture 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,363 55,823 49,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 82.88% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26,894 29,023 37,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

Collaborative Culture
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Collaborative Culture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Collaborative Culture job vacancy trend in the UK

Collaborative Culture
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Collaborative Culture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Collaborative Culture

Collaborative Culture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Culture over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Culture in the UK

Collaborative Culture
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Culture within the UK over the 6 months to 12 November 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
England +139 993 £57,500 -11.54% 1,416
UK excluding London +99 643 £52,500 -8.79% 803
Work from Home +135 541 £60,000 -14.29% 799
London +149 390 £75,000 -1.64% 696
North of England +38 188 £55,250 -11.60% 198
South East +76 152 £52,500 -12.50% 282
South West +75 94 £55,000 -10.20% 97
Midlands +55 88 £53,750 +2.38% 115
North West +24 85 £60,000 +4.24% 114
Yorkshire +25 69 £55,000 - 63
East of England +44 62 £38,250 -42.26% 55
West Midlands +44 60 £57,500 -4.17% 81
Scotland -5 47 £51,000 +13.33% 39
North East +35 38 £44,000 -45.00% 21
East Midlands +26 28 £42,500 -10.53% 33
Wales +14 14 £50,000 -7.41% 12
Northern Ireland +1 4 £40,000 -49.21% 13

Collaborative Culture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 31 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.78%) Confluence
4 16 (1.42%) IIS
4 16 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.71%) CMS
7 7 (0.62%) Apache
7 7 (0.62%) WordPress
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.089%) FileNet
9 1 (0.089%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.089%) TPMS
9 1 (0.089%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 70 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.98%) InDesign
5 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.62%) Trello
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.18%) Sketch
9 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.089%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.089%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.62%) SAP PS
4 5 (0.45%) Sage 200
4 5 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.36%) Magento
5 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.27%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.18%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.089%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 272 (24.22%) Azure
2 179 (15.94%) AWS
3 141 (12.56%) SaaS
4 93 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (7.66%) GCP
6 73 (6.50%) Power Platform
7 38 (3.38%) PaaS
8 36 (3.21%) Entra ID
9 31 (2.76%) GitHub
10 28 (2.49%) Serverless
11 26 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (2.05%) Amazon S3
13 20 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.69%) Google Analytics
15 18 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (1.60%) Google Ads
16 17 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.42%) Figma
18 14 (1.25%) IaaS
19 12 (1.07%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.74%) Firewall
2 32 (2.85%) DNS
3 29 (2.58%) VPN
4 18 (1.60%) DHCP
5 16 (1.42%) Broadband
5 16 (1.42%) Wireless
6 15 (1.34%) WAN
7 12 (1.07%) LAN
7 12 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 12 (1.07%) VoIP
8 11 (0.98%) VLAN
9 10 (0.89%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.71%) Modbus
11 8 (0.71%) RS-485
12 7 (0.62%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.53%) IPsec
14 5 (0.45%) Network Security
15 4 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.52%) Power BI
3 36 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 27 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.05%) Big Data
6 21 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.60%) Hadoop
8 18 (1.60%) MySQL
9 14 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (1.25%) Power Query
9 14 (1.25%) Tableau
10 10 (0.89%) DynamoDB
11 9 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.80%) Redis
12 8 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.71%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (4.81%) JIRA
2 40 (3.56%) Git
3 18 (1.60%) GitLab
4 12 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.71%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.53%) Vite
8 5 (0.45%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.36%) JMeter
9 4 (0.36%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.27%) MLflow
10 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.27%) Subversion
11 2 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.18%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.18%) NUnit
General
1 551 (49.07%) Social Skills
2 328 (29.21%) Finance
3 171 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (13.09%) Marketing
5 99 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 73 (6.50%) Law
7 68 (6.06%) Legal
8 60 (5.34%) Manufacturing
9 55 (4.90%) Telecoms
10 51 (4.54%) Electronics
11 49 (4.36%) Retail
12 48 (4.27%) Banking
13 46 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (3.29%) Financial Institution
17 24 (2.14%) Aviation
18 22 (1.96%) Fire and Rescue
18 22 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
18 22 (1.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 167 (14.87%) Senior
2 101 (8.99%) Lead
3 86 (7.66%) Developer
4 74 (6.59%) Analyst
5 73 (6.50%) Consultant
6 48 (4.27%) Support Engineer
7 41 (3.65%) IT Support
8 35 (3.12%) Architect
8 35 (3.12%) Senior Manager
8 35 (3.12%) Software Engineer
9 33 (2.94%) Senior Developer
10 29 (2.58%) Data Engineer
10 29 (2.58%) Service Manager
11 28 (2.49%) Operations Manager
12 27 (2.40%) Software Developer
13 23 (2.05%) IT Manager
14 22 (1.96%) Marketing Executive
14 22 (1.96%) Project Manager
14 22 (1.96%) Service Operations Manager
15 21 (1.87%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.61%) .NET
2 37 (3.29%) Spring
2 37 (3.29%) Spring Boot
3 32 (2.85%) React
4 31 (2.76%) Kafka
5 26 (2.32%) RESTful
6 23 (2.05%) REST
7 22 (1.96%) YAML
8 20 (1.78%) JSON
9 18 (1.60%) HTML
9 18 (1.60%) SAP CAF
9 18 (1.60%) Vue
10 17 (1.51%) .NET Core
10 17 (1.51%) CSS
11 16 (1.42%) Node.js
12 14 (1.25%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.07%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.80%) Flash
14 9 (0.80%) Hugging Face
15 8 (0.71%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 84 (7.48%) Onboarding
2 80 (7.12%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 47 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (3.56%) Social Media
5 33 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.76%) Virtual Team
7 28 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.40%) Driving Licence
8 27 (2.40%) Robotics
9 23 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
10 19 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.51%) e-Learning
12 16 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
14 12 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.07%) IoT
14 12 (1.07%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.73%) Windows
2 44 (3.92%) Linux
3 39 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.16%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.62%) VMS
8 5 (0.45%) CentOS
9 4 (0.36%) Android
9 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) SUSE
10 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.089%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.089%) SafeRTOS
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 280 (24.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 269 (23.95%) Agile
4 211 (18.79%) Mentoring
5 190 (16.92%) DevOps
6 175 (15.58%) Analytics
7 165 (14.69%) CI/CD
8 155 (13.80%) AI
9 134 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
10 133 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 126 (11.22%) Software Engineering
12 122 (10.86%) Decision-Making
13 118 (10.51%) Roadmaps
14 100 (8.90%) ITIL
15 95 (8.46%) Service Delivery
16 91 (8.10%) Coaching
16 91 (8.10%) Project Delivery
17 85 (7.57%) CRM
18 81 (7.21%) Project Management
19 80 (7.12%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 138 (12.29%) SQL
2 125 (11.13%) Python
3 74 (6.59%) Java
4 72 (6.41%) C#
4 72 (6.41%) PowerShell
5 53 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 33 (2.94%) Bash
7 29 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 26 (2.32%) C++
9 22 (1.96%) C
10 11 (0.98%) PHP
11 10 (0.89%) Embedded C
12 9 (0.80%) Bicep
12 9 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.71%) Ruby
13 8 (0.71%) Scala
14 7 (0.62%) Go
15 5 (0.45%) Elixir
15 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (16.03%) Degree
2 89 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 60 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.83%) AWS Certification
5 43 (3.83%) Master's Degree
6 33 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.58%) CISSP
8 24 (2.14%) CISM
8 24 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.78%) ACCA
10 20 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 17 (1.51%) PMI Certification
13 16 (1.42%) PMP
14 15 (1.34%) PhD
15 12 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.98%) CIMA
17 8 (0.71%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.86%) QA
2 72 (6.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (4.01%) NIST
4 44 (3.92%) GDPR
5 32 (2.85%) Data Quality
6 26 (2.32%) GRC
7 24 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 23 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (1.34%) PMO
10 14 (1.25%) SLA
11 13 (1.16%) ISO 9001
12 12 (1.07%) GAAP
13 11 (0.98%) NCSC
14 9 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.53%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.36%) IFRS
17 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.27%) WCAG
18 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 68 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 58 (5.16%) Docker
3 34 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 22 (1.96%) Firmware
6 17 (1.51%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.36%) KVM
10 1 (0.089%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.089%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.089%) HDFS
10 1 (0.089%) Postfix
10 1 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 62 (5.52%) Terraform
3 26 (2.32%) Ansible
4 23 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.89%) Grafana
5 10 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.80%) Autotask
6 9 (0.80%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.62%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.53%) SCCM
9 5 (0.45%) Argo
9 5 (0.45%) SCOM
9 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.27%) Kibana
11 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 3 (0.27%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
13 1 (0.089%) Plesk
13 1 (0.089%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 218 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.79%) SAP
3 52 (4.63%) Google
4 40 (3.56%) VMware
5 35 (3.12%) Oracle
5 35 (3.12%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.40%) Cisco
7 26 (2.32%) Adobe
8 16 (1.42%) HubSpot
9 13 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.07%) Sage
11 10 (0.89%) Talend
12 9 (0.80%) Informatica
12 9 (0.80%) NEC
12 9 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.80%) Xero
12 9 (0.80%) Zoho
13 8 (0.71%) Ahrefs
13 8 (0.71%) TikTok
13 8 (0.71%) YouTube