Collaborative Engineering Job Trends

Collaborative Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 662 830
Rank change year-on-year +154 +168 +10
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 282 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.024% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.027% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 232 12 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,188 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -28.95% +49.02%
75th Percentile £80,625 £83,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -21.05% +30.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Engineering 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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Collaborative Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Collaborative Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Collaborative Engineering

Collaborative Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Engineering over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Engineering in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +147 251 £65,000 -13.33% 179
UK excluding London +125 217 £60,000 -20.00% 152
Work from Home +60 96 £60,000 -20.00% 94
North of England - 55 £65,000 - 41
Midlands +17 54 £57,000 -5.00% 26
London +19 49 £87,500 -18.60% 52
South East - 49 £57,500 - 37
North West - 31 £60,000 - 21
West Midlands -2 28 £50,000 -16.67% 17
East Midlands - 26 £60,000 - 9
South West -41 19 £56,250 -37.50% 21
Wales - 18 £58,750 - 6
East of England -12 14 £60,000 -20.00% 16
North East - 14 £65,000 - 14
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 6
Scotland +20 8 £60,000 +60.00% 10

Collaborative Engineering
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 7 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.42%) Apache
2 4 (1.42%) Confluence
3 3 (1.06%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (31.91%) AWS
2 84 (29.79%) Azure
3 37 (13.12%) GCP
4 19 (6.74%) GitHub
5 17 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (4.96%) SaaS
6 14 (4.96%) Serverless
7 11 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (3.90%) dbt
8 10 (3.55%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.84%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.96%) Firewall
2 13 (4.61%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.90%) DNS
4 8 (2.84%) Wireless
5 7 (2.48%) LTE
6 6 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.42%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.42%) BGP
7 4 (1.42%) VoIP
7 4 (1.42%) VPN
7 4 (1.42%) VSAT
8 3 (1.06%) WAN
9 2 (0.71%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.71%) 5G
9 2 (0.71%) LAN
10 1 (0.35%) DHCP
10 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.35%) HTTP
10 1 (0.35%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.61%) MongoDB
2 12 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (2.84%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.84%) MySQL
5 8 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.77%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.06%) Big Data
9 3 (1.06%) Power BI
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.71%) Redis
10 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (16.31%) Git
2 9 (3.19%) GitLab
3 7 (2.48%) JIRA
4 6 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.13%) Selenium
5 5 (1.77%) NUnit
6 4 (1.42%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.42%) Mocha
6 4 (1.42%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.71%) CMake
7 2 (0.71%) Postman
7 2 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) GDB
8 1 (0.35%) git-flow
8 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.35%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 98 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (13.48%) Finance
4 26 (9.22%) Electronics
5 13 (4.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.26%) Aviation
7 9 (3.19%) Games
8 7 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.77%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.42%) Local Government
11 3 (1.06%) Advertising
11 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Law
11 3 (1.06%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.71%) Front Office
12 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (25.53%) Senior
2 61 (21.63%) Software Engineer
3 52 (18.44%) Developer
4 30 (10.64%) Lead
5 29 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.51%) Embedded Engineer
7 23 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.45%) Data Engineer
9 18 (6.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 15 (5.32%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (4.96%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.55%) Electronics Engineer
14 10 (3.55%) Site Engineer
14 10 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (3.19%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 9 (3.19%) Technical Engineer
15 9 (3.19%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.02%) .NET
2 27 (9.57%) React
3 21 (7.45%) .NET Framework
4 20 (7.09%) REST
5 18 (6.38%) ASP.NET
5 18 (6.38%) Kafka
6 16 (5.67%) Entity Framework
6 16 (5.67%) Node.js
7 15 (5.32%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (3.90%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.55%) RESTful
10 9 (3.19%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (3.19%) Spring
11 8 (2.84%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.84%) PySpark
11 8 (2.84%) Vue
11 8 (2.84%) Yocto
12 7 (2.48%) React Native
12 7 (2.48%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 39 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.74%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.61%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.48%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.48%) IoT
8 6 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.13%) Device Driver
9 5 (1.77%) FPGA
9 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.77%) PCIe
9 5 (1.77%) Verilog
9 5 (1.77%) VHDL
10 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.42%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.38%) Linux
2 14 (4.96%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (4.61%) Unix
4 10 (3.55%) Android
4 10 (3.55%) Windows
5 6 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (48.58%) CI/CD
2 134 (47.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 126 (44.68%) Software Engineering
4 116 (41.13%) Agile
5 102 (36.17%) DevOps
6 87 (30.85%) Collaborative Culture
7 84 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 60 (21.28%) Mentoring
10 58 (20.57%) Test Automation
11 49 (17.38%) AI
12 46 (16.31%) Observability
13 39 (13.83%) Technical Leadership
14 38 (13.48%) SDLC
15 34 (12.06%) Platform Engineering
16 33 (11.70%) Clean Code
16 33 (11.70%) Containerisation
17 31 (10.99%) Microservices
18 30 (10.64%) Code Quality
18 30 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 95 (33.69%) Python
2 49 (17.38%) SQL
3 46 (16.31%) C#
4 40 (14.18%) Java
5 39 (13.83%) TypeScript
6 36 (12.77%) JavaScript
7 29 (10.28%) C++
8 21 (7.45%) Bash
9 19 (6.74%) C
10 11 (3.90%) Embedded C
10 11 (3.90%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.55%) Go
12 9 (3.19%) PHP
12 9 (3.19%) Scala
13 6 (2.13%) Embedded C++
13 6 (2.13%) Kotlin
13 6 (2.13%) Perl
14 5 (1.77%) Bicep
14 5 (1.77%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.26%) Degree
3 12 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.13%) HNC
5 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.42%) HND
7 3 (1.06%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) CCIE
9 1 (0.35%) CCNP
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.51%) QA
2 12 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 35 (12.41%) Docker
2 10 (3.55%) Firmware
3 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 62 (21.99%) Terraform
2 49 (17.38%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.90%) Grafana
3 11 (3.90%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.19%) Ansible
5 6 (2.13%) Argo
6 4 (1.42%) Istio
7 3 (1.06%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.06%) Puppet
8 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) linkerd
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.32%) Google
3 13 (4.61%) Databricks
4 9 (3.19%) Cisco
5 5 (1.77%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.42%) VMware
7 3 (1.06%) Dell
7 3 (1.06%) F5
7 3 (1.06%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.06%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.71%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.35%) Apple
9 1 (0.35%) Arista
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) FXall
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.35%) Sophos