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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 661 765
Rank change year-on-year +209 +104 -31
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 406 19 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.038% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.043% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 312 14 3
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £90,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £58,438 £95,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% -13.73%
75th Percentile £77,813 £89,063 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% -14.29% +105.88%

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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +176 358 £65,000 -13.33% 248
UK excluding London +142 317 £60,000 -20.00% 178
Work from Home +93 130 £66,250 -11.67% 131
North of England +9 84 £65,000 -13.33% 48
London -1 70 £87,500 -12.50% 84
South East +17 69 £55,000 -38.89% 41
Midlands +14 60 £60,000 - 22
North West - 45 £65,000 - 29
South West -39 39 £73,750 -10.61% 13
East Midlands - 34 £60,000 - 5
Wales - 29 £57,500 - 5
North East -39 28 £65,000 -13.33% 6
West Midlands -16 26 £50,000 -16.67% 17
East of England -17 25 £60,000 -20.00% 28
Scotland +21 11 £71,991 +91.98% 16
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 14
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 5

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 9 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.72%) Apache
3 3 (0.74%) CMS
3 3 (0.74%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.74%) SAS
4 2 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Simulink
2 5 (1.23%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.74%) EPLAN
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.25%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.25%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (27.83%) AWS
1 113 (27.83%) Azure
2 56 (13.79%) GCP
3 30 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (5.91%) GitHub
5 22 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (5.17%) Serverless
7 16 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.94%) dbt
8 14 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (2.96%) SaaS
10 11 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.97%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.97%) Snowflake
13 7 (1.72%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.17%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.19%) Firewall
3 15 (3.69%) DNS
4 14 (3.45%) Wireless
5 13 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.22%) VPN
7 8 (1.97%) BGP
7 8 (1.97%) LTE
8 4 (0.99%) 5G
8 4 (0.99%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (0.99%) VoIP
8 4 (0.99%) VSAT
9 3 (0.74%) WAN
10 2 (0.49%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.49%) DHCP
10 2 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.49%) LAN
10 2 (0.49%) OSPF
10 2 (0.49%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.49%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.94%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.22%) MySQL
6 8 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.72%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.74%) Big Data
10 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.74%) Redis
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.49%) Power BI
12 1 (0.25%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 52 (12.81%) Git
2 12 (2.96%) GitLab
3 7 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.72%) JIRA
4 5 (1.23%) Jasmine
4 5 (1.23%) Mocha
4 5 (1.23%) NUnit
4 5 (1.23%) Selenium
5 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.99%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.49%) CMake
7 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.25%) git-flow
8 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 153 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (13.05%) Finance
3 48 (11.82%) Electronics
4 31 (7.64%) Manufacturing
5 22 (5.42%) Aviation
6 14 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.96%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.22%) Automotive
9 8 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.48%) Games
10 6 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.23%) Welsh Language
12 4 (0.99%) Banking
12 4 (0.99%) Front Office
12 4 (0.99%) Retail
13 3 (0.74%) Law
13 3 (0.74%) Military
13 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 124 (30.54%) Senior
2 96 (23.65%) Software Engineer
3 50 (12.32%) Developer
4 42 (10.34%) Embedded Engineer
5 38 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (9.36%) Senior Software Engineer
6 32 (7.88%) Lead
7 30 (7.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 29 (7.14%) Electronics Engineer
8 29 (7.14%) Python Engineer
9 22 (5.42%) Data Engineer
10 21 (5.17%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.68%) Site Engineer
11 19 (4.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.94%) Design Engineer
13 16 (3.94%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (3.20%) Linux Engineer
14 13 (3.20%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 12 (2.96%) Embedded Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (22.41%) Terraform
2 47 (11.58%) .NET
3 36 (8.87%) React
4 30 (7.39%) REST
5 23 (5.67%) Kafka
6 19 (4.68%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.69%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.69%) Node.js
8 14 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (3.20%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.20%) RESTful
9 13 (3.20%) Yocto
10 12 (2.96%) Spring
11 11 (2.71%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.22%) Spring Boot
13 8 (1.97%) NestJS
13 8 (1.97%) PySpark
13 8 (1.97%) Vue
14 7 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 59 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.05%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.65%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (3.69%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.20%) Analogue Electronics
6 12 (2.96%) IoT
7 11 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.46%) Device Driver
8 10 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.46%) FPGA
9 9 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.48%) VHDL
13 5 (1.23%) PCIe
13 5 (1.23%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.24%) Linux
2 21 (5.17%) Embedded Linux
3 19 (4.68%) Unix
4 13 (3.20%) Windows
5 9 (2.22%) Android
6 6 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.49%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (46.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 186 (45.81%) Software Engineering
3 175 (43.10%) CI/CD
4 135 (33.25%) DevOps
5 131 (32.27%) Agile
6 130 (32.02%) Collaborative Culture
7 122 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (23.65%) Mentoring
9 93 (22.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (19.21%) Test Automation
11 63 (15.52%) Observability
12 62 (15.27%) AI
13 52 (12.81%) Technical Leadership
14 49 (12.07%) SDLC
15 47 (11.58%) Code Quality
15 47 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (11.33%) Containerisation
17 43 (10.59%) Clean Code
18 39 (9.61%) Microservices
19 35 (8.62%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 116 (28.57%) Python
2 54 (13.30%) SQL
3 51 (12.56%) C#
4 46 (11.33%) Java
4 46 (11.33%) TypeScript
5 35 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.14%) C
6 29 (7.14%) C++
7 27 (6.65%) Bash
8 24 (5.91%) PowerShell
9 16 (3.94%) Embedded C
9 16 (3.94%) Scala
10 14 (3.45%) Go
11 11 (2.71%) PHP
12 7 (1.72%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.72%) Perl
13 6 (1.48%) Embedded C++
13 6 (1.48%) MATLAB
13 6 (1.48%) Rust
14 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 52 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.65%) Degree
4 20 (4.93%) HNC
5 18 (4.43%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.94%) HND
7 7 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.49%) City & Guilds
9 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.49%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.25%) CCIE
10 1 (0.25%) CCNP
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.88%) QA
2 12 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.99%) GDPR
4 4 (0.99%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.25%) ECSS
6 1 (0.25%) GAMP
6 1 (0.25%) GMP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.25%) JTAG
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (14.04%) Docker
2 20 (4.93%) Firmware
3 7 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.48%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.49%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (18.72%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.94%) Ansible
3 14 (3.45%) Grafana
4 11 (2.71%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.72%) Argo
6 4 (0.99%) Istio
7 3 (0.74%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.74%) Puppet
8 2 (0.49%) Kibana
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.49%) Packer
8 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 41 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.91%) Google
3 16 (3.94%) Databricks
4 12 (2.96%) Cisco
5 11 (2.71%) VMware
6 7 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.48%) Dell
7 6 (1.48%) F5
7 6 (1.48%) Infoblox
8 5 (1.23%) EMC
8 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.74%) Siemens
11 2 (0.49%) Apple
11 2 (0.49%) Oracle
11 2 (0.49%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.25%) Allen-Bradley
12 1 (0.25%) Anaplan
12 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.25%) New Relic