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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 654 787
Rank change year-on-year +176 +133 -8
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 350 18 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.036% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.041% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 283 14 3
10th Percentile £42,100 - £57,400
25th Percentile £50,500 £36,750 £75,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -31.82% +100.00%
75th Percentile £79,275 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +64.84% +7.06%

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 81,075 43,637 63,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.47% 80.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56,400 24,673 38,159
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,700 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.74%

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 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Engineering in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 5 September 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 +153 311 £65,000 -13.33% 211
UK excluding London +125 265 £60,000 -20.00% 167
Work from Home +79 121 £63,750 -15.00% 105
London +10 68 £87,500 -23.08% 78
North of England +1 64 £65,000 -13.33% 37
South East +24 63 £55,000 -38.89% 42
Midlands +19 59 £57,000 -5.00% 18
North West - 32 £65,000 - 18
West Midlands -6 31 £50,000 -16.67% 10
South West -50 28 £67,500 -25.00% 23
East Midlands - 28 £60,000 - 8
Wales - 24 £58,750 - 5
North East -42 22 £60,000 -20.00% 13
East of England -21 18 £60,000 -20.00% 24
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 8
Scotland +12 9 £60,000 +60.00% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 9

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 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.43%) Apache
3 3 (0.86%) Confluence
3 3 (0.86%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Simulink
2 2 (0.57%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.29%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (32.00%) AWS
2 103 (29.43%) Azure
3 52 (14.86%) GCP
4 25 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.86%) GitHub
6 20 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (4.86%) dbt
8 15 (4.29%) Serverless
9 13 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.43%) SaaS
11 11 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.57%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.71%) Azure AKS
15 6 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.00%) Firewall
3 12 (3.43%) DNS
4 11 (3.14%) Wireless
5 10 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.29%) LTE
7 6 (1.71%) VPN
8 5 (1.43%) BGP
9 4 (1.14%) 5G
9 4 (1.14%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.14%) VoIP
9 4 (1.14%) VSAT
10 3 (0.86%) WAN
11 2 (0.57%) 3GPP
11 2 (0.57%) DHCP
11 2 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.57%) LAN
11 2 (0.57%) OSPF
11 2 (0.57%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.57%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.71%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.57%) MySQL
6 8 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.29%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.14%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.57%) Big Data
11 2 (0.57%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.57%) Power BI
11 2 (0.57%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (14.29%) Git
2 9 (2.57%) GitLab
3 8 (2.29%) JIRA
4 7 (2.00%) Selenium
5 6 (1.71%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.43%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.43%) Mocha
6 5 (1.43%) NUnit
7 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.86%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.57%) CMake
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) git-flow
9 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.29%) Postman
9 1 (0.29%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 127 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.86%) Finance
4 41 (11.71%) Electronics
5 18 (5.14%) Aviation
6 17 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.71%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.57%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.57%) Games
9 6 (1.71%) Automotive
10 5 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.43%) Law
10 5 (1.43%) Welsh Language
11 4 (1.14%) Banking
11 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.14%) Front Office
11 4 (1.14%) Local Government
12 3 (0.86%) Advertising
12 3 (0.86%) Military
12 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (26.86%) Senior
2 71 (20.29%) Software Engineer
3 59 (16.86%) Developer
4 34 (9.71%) Lead
5 33 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (9.43%) Embedded Engineer
6 26 (7.43%) Python Engineer
6 26 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 22 (6.29%) Electronics Engineer
9 21 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 19 (5.43%) Site Engineer
10 19 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (5.14%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.71%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.43%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.86%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (23.14%) Terraform
2 46 (13.14%) .NET
3 28 (8.00%) React
4 23 (6.57%) REST
5 20 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 20 (5.71%) Kafka
6 17 (4.86%) ASP.NET
6 17 (4.86%) Node.js
7 15 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (4.29%) Entity Framework
8 14 (4.00%) RESTful
9 11 (3.14%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.86%) Yocto
11 9 (2.57%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (2.57%) PySpark
11 9 (2.57%) Spring
12 8 (2.29%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.29%) Playwright
12 8 (2.29%) Vue
13 7 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.14%) Cloud Native
1 53 (15.14%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.00%) Embedded Systems
3 20 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 15 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.57%) IoT
7 8 (2.29%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.29%) FPGA
8 7 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.00%) Device Driver
8 7 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.43%) PCIe
10 5 (1.43%) Verilog
10 5 (1.43%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.57%) Linux
2 19 (5.43%) Unix
3 17 (4.86%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.14%) Android
5 10 (2.86%) Windows
6 6 (1.71%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.57%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (48.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 161 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 157 (44.86%) Software Engineering
4 127 (36.29%) Agile
5 121 (34.57%) DevOps
6 114 (32.57%) Collaborative Culture
7 104 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 83 (23.71%) Mentoring
10 71 (20.29%) Test Automation
11 61 (17.43%) Observability
12 54 (15.43%) AI
13 47 (13.43%) SDLC
13 47 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
14 45 (12.86%) Platform Engineering
15 42 (12.00%) Containerisation
16 40 (11.43%) Clean Code
16 40 (11.43%) Code Quality
17 37 (10.57%) Software Architecture
18 35 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.86%) Python
2 59 (16.86%) SQL
3 50 (14.29%) C#
4 44 (12.57%) Java
5 40 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 37 (10.57%) JavaScript
7 30 (8.57%) C++
8 26 (7.43%) Bash
9 23 (6.57%) C
10 21 (6.00%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.29%) Scala
12 14 (4.00%) Go
13 12 (3.43%) Embedded C
14 9 (2.57%) PHP
15 7 (2.00%) Kotlin
15 7 (2.00%) Perl
16 6 (1.71%) Embedded C++
17 5 (1.43%) MATLAB
17 5 (1.43%) Rust
18 4 (1.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 84 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.86%) Degree
4 13 (3.71%) HNC
5 12 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.86%) HND
7 8 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.57%) City & Guilds
12 2 (0.57%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.29%) CCIE
13 1 (0.29%) CCNP
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.86%) QA
2 12 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.14%) GDPR
4 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.29%) JTAG
System Software
1 42 (12.00%) Docker
2 17 (4.86%) Firmware
3 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (17.71%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.29%) Ansible
3 14 (4.00%) Grafana
4 11 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.71%) Argo
6 4 (1.14%) Istio
7 3 (0.86%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.86%) Puppet
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.29%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.29%) Google
3 15 (4.29%) Databricks
4 9 (2.57%) Cisco
5 8 (2.29%) VMware
6 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.14%) EMC
7 4 (1.14%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.86%) Dell
8 3 (0.86%) F5
8 3 (0.86%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.86%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.57%) Apple
10 1 (0.29%) Aruba
10 1 (0.29%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.29%) IBM
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.29%) Veeam