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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 676 899
Rank change year-on-year +120 +223 -12
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 184 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.022% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.024% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 146 10 7
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,700 £73,700
25th Percentile £51,000 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -40.26% +72.73%
75th Percentile £81,875 £91,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £94,375 £115,375 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% -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 70,129 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,378 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +88 166 £62,500 -16.67% 105
UK excluding London +67 143 £57,500 -23.33% 97
Work from Home +59 56 £57,500 -23.33% 70
North of England - 36 £58,750 - 18
South East - 35 £55,000 - 28
Midlands - 31 £52,500 - 19
London -4 25 £87,500 -18.60% 26
North West - 22 £55,000 - 10
West Midlands - 22 £50,000 - 11
South West -52 15 £72,500 -19.44% 11
East of England +2 13 £60,000 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 4
East Midlands - 9 £60,000 - 8
Wales - 7 £57,500 - 4
Scotland +24 6 £60,000 +60.00% 4
North East - 3 £65,000 - 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 6 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.72%) Apache
3 4 (2.17%) Confluence
4 3 (1.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (30.43%) AWS
1 56 (30.43%) Azure
2 18 (9.78%) GCP
3 11 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.43%) GitHub
4 10 (5.43%) SaaS
5 9 (4.89%) Serverless
6 8 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.72%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.09%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.09%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) Firewall
2 8 (4.35%) DNS
3 4 (2.17%) LTE
3 4 (2.17%) VPN
4 3 (1.63%) BGP
5 2 (1.09%) WAN
5 2 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.09%) Wireless
6 1 (0.54%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) Junos
6 1 (0.54%) LAN
6 1 (0.54%) NFC
6 1 (0.54%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.80%) BigQuery
4 7 (3.80%) MySQL
5 6 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.63%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.54%) Big Data
9 1 (0.54%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.54%) Power BI
9 1 (0.54%) Redis
9 1 (0.54%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 23 (12.50%) Git
2 10 (5.43%) GitLab
3 7 (3.80%) JIRA
4 4 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.63%) Postman
6 2 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.09%) Selenium
6 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.54%) CMake
7 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.54%) git-flow
7 1 (0.54%) JUnit
7 1 (0.54%) NUnit
7 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.54%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (16.30%) Finance
3 15 (8.15%) Electronics
4 8 (4.35%) Games
5 7 (3.80%) Aviation
5 7 (3.80%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.17%) Law
6 4 (2.17%) Local Government
7 3 (1.63%) Advertising
7 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.63%) Military
8 2 (1.09%) Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.09%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.54%) Front Office
9 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (19.02%) Senior
2 34 (18.48%) Developer
3 33 (17.93%) Software Engineer
4 17 (9.24%) Data Engineer
4 17 (9.24%) Lead
5 13 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) Embedded Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) Support Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) Electronics Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) Technical Support
9 9 (4.89%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (23.91%) .NET
2 20 (10.87%) React
3 19 (10.33%) .NET Framework
4 18 (9.78%) ASP.NET
5 16 (8.70%) Entity Framework
6 15 (8.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 14 (7.61%) Kafka
8 12 (6.52%) Node.js
9 9 (4.89%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (4.89%) REST
10 7 (3.80%) PySpark
10 7 (3.80%) React Native
11 5 (2.72%) AWS CDK
12 4 (2.17%) Blazor
12 4 (2.17%) Next.js
12 4 (2.17%) Playwright
12 4 (2.17%) RESTful
12 4 (2.17%) Spring
12 4 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.07%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.43%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.26%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.72%) FPGA
6 5 (2.72%) NHS
6 5 (2.72%) PCIe
6 5 (2.72%) Verilog
6 5 (2.72%) VHDL
7 4 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.63%) Photography
8 3 (1.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.78%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Android
3 5 (2.72%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (2.17%) Windows
5 3 (1.63%) Unix
6 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 77 (41.85%) CI/CD
3 75 (40.76%) Agile
4 64 (34.78%) DevOps
4 64 (34.78%) Software Engineering
5 58 (31.52%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (21.20%) Test Automation
7 38 (20.65%) Collaborative Culture
8 34 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (16.85%) AI
10 30 (16.30%) Mentoring
11 27 (14.67%) Observability
12 26 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (13.04%) Microservices
14 23 (12.50%) Containerisation
15 21 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
17 19 (10.33%) Clean Code
17 19 (10.33%) Data Engineering
18 18 (9.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.89%) Python
2 42 (22.83%) C#
3 36 (19.57%) TypeScript
4 35 (19.02%) SQL
5 26 (14.13%) Java
5 26 (14.13%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.87%) C++
7 10 (5.43%) Bash
7 10 (5.43%) C
8 7 (3.80%) Embedded C
9 6 (3.26%) Go
9 6 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.72%) Bicep
10 5 (2.72%) Embedded C++
10 5 (2.72%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.72%) PHP
10 5 (2.72%) Scala
11 2 (1.09%) Perl
11 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.26%) Degree
5 5 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.72%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.24%) QA
2 8 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (8.70%) Docker
2 10 (5.43%) Firmware
3 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (20.11%) Terraform
2 31 (16.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.26%) Ansible
4 5 (2.72%) Grafana
4 5 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.17%) Argo
6 1 (0.54%) Istio
6 1 (0.54%) linkerd
6 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.89%) Databricks
3 5 (2.72%) Cisco
4 4 (2.17%) Palo Alto
4 4 (2.17%) VMware
5 3 (1.63%) Dell
5 3 (1.63%) F5
5 3 (1.63%) Infoblox
5 3 (1.63%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.09%) Rollbar
6 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.54%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.54%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.54%) FXall
7 1 (0.54%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.54%) New Relic
7 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle
7 1 (0.54%) Solace