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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 685 812
Rank change year-on-year +200 +127 +10
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 329 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.022% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.025% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 269 11 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -36.84% +49.02%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 -
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 77,641 44,566 67,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 89.32% 81.09%
Number of salaries quoted 53,461 25,406 43,850
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,073 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.41% -3.85% -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 9 August 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 August 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 +177 294 £65,000 -3.70% 225
UK excluding London +143 253 £60,000 -20.00% 171
Work from Home +76 109 £65,000 -13.33% 111
North of England - 62 £65,000 - 33
London +6 60 £87,500 -23.08% 79
South East - 59 £55,000 - 56
Midlands +29 58 £54,000 -10.00% 22
North West - 35 £62,500 - 17
West Midlands +1 31 £50,000 -16.67% 12
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 10
South West -37 24 £62,500 -30.56% 23
East of England -11 20 £60,000 -20.00% 31
Wales - 20 £62,500 - 4
North East - 18 £65,000 - 10
Scotland +13 9 £60,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire - 9 £90,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 1

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 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.22%) Apache
2 4 (1.22%) Confluence
3 3 (0.91%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Simulink
2 2 (0.61%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.30%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (31.91%) AWS
2 96 (29.18%) Azure
3 48 (14.59%) GCP
4 22 (6.69%) GitHub
5 20 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.17%) dbt
7 14 (4.26%) Serverless
8 12 (3.65%) SaaS
9 11 (3.34%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.74%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.78%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.26%) Firewall
3 11 (3.34%) DNS
4 8 (2.43%) Wireless
5 7 (2.13%) LTE
5 7 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.22%) Asterisk PBX
6 4 (1.22%) BGP
6 4 (1.22%) VoIP
6 4 (1.22%) VPN
6 4 (1.22%) VSAT
7 3 (0.91%) WAN
8 2 (0.61%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.61%) 5G
8 2 (0.61%) LAN
9 1 (0.30%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.30%) DHCP
9 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.30%) HTTP
9 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.95%) MongoDB
1 13 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.74%) MySQL
4 8 (2.43%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.43%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.91%) Big Data
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.61%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.61%) Power BI
9 2 (0.61%) Redis
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (14.59%) Git
2 9 (2.74%) GitLab
3 7 (2.13%) JIRA
3 7 (2.13%) Selenium
4 6 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.82%) NUnit
5 5 (1.52%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.52%) Mocha
6 4 (1.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.61%) CMake
7 2 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) GDB
8 1 (0.30%) git-flow
8 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.30%) Postman
8 1 (0.30%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 117 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.46%) Finance
4 37 (11.25%) Electronics
5 21 (6.38%) Manufacturing
6 14 (4.26%) Aviation
7 13 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.74%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.74%) Games
9 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.52%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.22%) Automotive
10 4 (1.22%) Local Government
11 3 (0.91%) Advertising
11 3 (0.91%) Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Law
11 3 (0.91%) Military
11 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (27.36%) Senior
2 68 (20.67%) Software Engineer
3 59 (17.93%) Developer
4 32 (9.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (9.73%) Lead
5 27 (8.21%) Embedded Engineer
5 27 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (7.29%) Python Engineer
7 21 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 21 (6.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 18 (5.47%) Electronics Engineer
8 18 (5.47%) Site Engineer
8 18 (5.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
13 10 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.04%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.74%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.20%) .NET
2 29 (8.81%) React
3 22 (6.69%) REST
4 21 (6.38%) .NET Framework
5 19 (5.78%) Kafka
6 18 (5.47%) ASP.NET
7 17 (5.17%) Node.js
8 16 (4.86%) Entity Framework
9 15 (4.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 12 (3.65%) RESTful
11 11 (3.34%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.74%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.74%) Spring
13 8 (2.43%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.43%) PySpark
13 8 (2.43%) React Native
13 8 (2.43%) Vue
13 8 (2.43%) Yocto
14 7 (2.13%) Playwright
14 7 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 49 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.08%) Mobile App
4 18 (5.47%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.43%) IoT
9 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.13%) Analogue Electronics
9 7 (2.13%) FPGA
10 6 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.82%) Device Driver
11 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.52%) PCIe
11 5 (1.52%) Verilog
11 5 (1.52%) VHDL
12 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.22%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 59 (17.93%) Linux
2 19 (5.78%) Unix
3 14 (4.26%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.34%) Android
4 11 (3.34%) Windows
5 7 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (48.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 153 (46.50%) CI/CD
3 146 (44.38%) Software Engineering
4 123 (37.39%) Agile
5 115 (34.95%) DevOps
6 102 (31.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 95 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (23.40%) Mentoring
9 67 (20.36%) Test Automation
10 55 (16.72%) Observability
11 52 (15.81%) AI
12 45 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (13.07%) SDLC
14 41 (12.46%) Clean Code
15 39 (11.85%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (11.25%) Containerisation
17 35 (10.64%) Code Quality
18 34 (10.33%) Microservices
18 34 (10.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 107 (32.52%) Python
2 51 (15.50%) SQL
3 48 (14.59%) C#
4 42 (12.77%) Java
5 41 (12.46%) TypeScript
6 37 (11.25%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.81%) C++
8 23 (6.99%) Bash
9 20 (6.08%) C
10 14 (4.26%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.95%) Scala
12 12 (3.65%) Go
13 11 (3.34%) Embedded C
14 9 (2.74%) PHP
15 7 (2.13%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.82%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.82%) Perl
17 5 (1.52%) Bicep
17 5 (1.52%) MATLAB
18 2 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 45 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.47%) Degree
4 13 (3.95%) HNC
5 12 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.04%) HND
7 7 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.61%) City & Guilds
12 2 (0.61%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.30%) CCIE
13 1 (0.30%) CCNP
13 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.21%) QA
2 12 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.91%) GDPR
3 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 38 (11.55%) Docker
2 15 (4.56%) Firmware
3 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (22.49%) Terraform
2 54 (16.41%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.95%) Grafana
4 11 (3.34%) Ansible
4 11 (3.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.82%) Argo
6 4 (1.22%) Istio
7 3 (0.91%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.91%) Puppet
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.30%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.30%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.69%) Google
3 14 (4.26%) Databricks
4 9 (2.74%) Cisco
5 7 (2.13%) VMware
6 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.22%) EMC
7 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.91%) Dell
8 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.91%) F5
8 3 (0.91%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.91%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.61%) Apple
9 2 (0.61%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.30%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Sophos
10 1 (0.30%) Veeam