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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 659 799
Rank change year-on-year +195 +140 -50
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 374 21 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.043% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.048% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 295 16 3
10th Percentile £42,000 - £57,400
25th Percentile £51,000 £36,750 £75,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% +72.55%
75th Percentile £79,275 £91,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,875 -
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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 17 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 17 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 +173 331 £65,000 -13.33% 277
UK excluding London +130 287 £60,000 -20.00% 195
Work from Home +90 124 £65,000 -13.33% 129
North of England +18 74 £65,000 -13.33% 53
London +6 70 £87,500 -18.60% 104
South East +14 66 £55,000 -38.89% 42
Midlands +16 60 £60,000 - 32
North West - 37 £65,000 - 34
West Midlands -7 30 £50,000 -16.67% 20
South West -46 30 £67,500 -18.18% 12
East Midlands - 30 £60,000 - 12
Wales - 27 £57,500 - 5
North East -40 26 £61,250 -18.33% 10
East of England -13 20 £60,000 -20.00% 33
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 10
Scotland +11 10 £65,996 +75.99% 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 2

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 (1.87%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.34%) Apache
3 3 (0.80%) Confluence
3 3 (0.80%) SAS
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.60%) Simulink
2 3 (0.80%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.27%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.27%) EPLAN
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) MicroStation
3 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (30.75%) AWS
2 109 (29.14%) Azure
3 53 (14.17%) GCP
4 28 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.68%) GitHub
6 20 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (4.55%) dbt
7 17 (4.55%) Serverless
8 14 (3.74%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.21%) SaaS
10 11 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.41%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.87%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.35%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.01%) Firewall
3 13 (3.48%) DNS
4 12 (3.21%) Wireless
5 11 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.14%) LTE
7 7 (1.87%) VPN
8 6 (1.60%) BGP
9 4 (1.07%) 5G
9 4 (1.07%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.07%) VoIP
9 4 (1.07%) VSAT
10 3 (0.80%) WAN
11 2 (0.53%) 3GPP
11 2 (0.53%) DHCP
11 2 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.53%) LAN
11 2 (0.53%) OSPF
11 2 (0.53%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.53%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.28%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.41%) MySQL
6 8 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.14%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.34%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.53%) Big Data
11 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.53%) Power BI
11 2 (0.53%) Redis
12 1 (0.27%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 49 (13.10%) Git
2 11 (2.94%) GitLab
3 8 (2.14%) JIRA
4 7 (1.87%) Selenium
5 6 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.34%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.34%) Mocha
6 5 (1.34%) NUnit
7 4 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.80%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.53%) CMake
9 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.27%) GDB
10 1 (0.27%) git-flow
10 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 140 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (12.30%) Finance
4 45 (12.03%) Electronics
5 23 (6.15%) Manufacturing
6 19 (5.08%) Aviation
7 12 (3.21%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.94%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.14%) Automotive
9 8 (2.14%) Games
10 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.34%) Law
11 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.34%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.07%) Banking
12 4 (1.07%) Front Office
13 3 (0.80%) Advertising
13 3 (0.80%) Local Government
13 3 (0.80%) Military
13 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (27.81%) Senior
2 76 (20.32%) Software Engineer
3 56 (14.97%) Developer
4 36 (9.63%) Embedded Engineer
5 34 (9.09%) Lead
6 33 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (7.22%) Electronics Engineer
8 27 (7.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 26 (6.95%) Python Engineer
10 23 (6.15%) Data Engineer
11 20 (5.35%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.08%) Site Engineer
12 19 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
15 13 (3.48%) Support Engineer
16 12 (3.21%) Design Engineer
17 11 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
17 11 (2.94%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (22.99%) Terraform
2 48 (12.83%) .NET
3 32 (8.56%) React
4 25 (6.68%) REST
5 22 (5.88%) Kafka
6 21 (5.61%) .NET Framework
7 15 (4.01%) ASP.NET
8 14 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (3.74%) Node.js
9 13 (3.48%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.48%) RESTful
10 12 (3.21%) Spring
11 11 (2.94%) Yocto
12 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.41%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (2.41%) PySpark
14 8 (2.14%) Playwright
14 8 (2.14%) Spring Boot
15 7 (1.87%) AWS CDK
15 7 (1.87%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 53 (14.17%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.15%) Embedded Systems
4 18 (4.81%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.21%) Analogue Electronics
7 11 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.67%) IoT
8 10 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.41%) FPGA
10 8 (2.14%) Device Driver
11 7 (1.87%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.87%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.60%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.34%) PCIe
13 5 (1.34%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 66 (17.65%) Linux
2 19 (5.08%) Unix
3 18 (4.81%) Embedded Linux
4 14 (3.74%) Windows
5 10 (2.67%) Android
6 6 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.53%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
9 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (47.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 168 (44.92%) CI/CD
3 164 (43.85%) Software Engineering
4 134 (35.83%) Agile
5 128 (34.22%) DevOps
6 120 (32.09%) Collaborative Culture
7 113 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 88 (23.53%) Mentoring
10 75 (20.05%) Test Automation
11 65 (17.38%) Observability
12 62 (16.58%) AI
13 49 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (12.57%) SDLC
15 46 (12.30%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (11.50%) Containerisation
17 41 (10.96%) Code Quality
18 38 (10.16%) Microservices
19 37 (9.89%) Clean Code
20 36 (9.63%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.75%) Python
2 57 (15.24%) SQL
3 53 (14.17%) C#
4 47 (12.57%) Java
5 40 (10.70%) TypeScript
6 38 (10.16%) JavaScript
7 30 (8.02%) C++
8 26 (6.95%) Bash
8 26 (6.95%) C
9 24 (6.42%) PowerShell
10 15 (4.01%) Scala
11 14 (3.74%) Embedded C
11 14 (3.74%) Go
12 9 (2.41%) PHP
13 7 (1.87%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.87%) Perl
14 6 (1.60%) Embedded C++
14 6 (1.60%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.34%) Rust
16 4 (1.07%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 87 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.88%) Degree
4 17 (4.55%) HNC
5 13 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.21%) HND
7 8 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.53%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.53%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.27%) CCIE
12 1 (0.27%) CCNP
12 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.09%) QA
2 12 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.07%) GDPR
4 4 (1.07%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) ECSS
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.27%) JTAG
System Software
1 48 (12.83%) Docker
2 18 (4.81%) Firmware
3 5 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.07%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.01%) Ansible
3 14 (3.74%) Grafana
4 11 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.60%) Argo
6 4 (1.07%) Istio
7 3 (0.80%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.80%) Puppet
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.27%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.27%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) linkerd
9 1 (0.27%) Packer
9 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.88%) Google
3 15 (4.01%) Databricks
4 10 (2.67%) Cisco
5 9 (2.41%) VMware
6 5 (1.34%) EMC
6 5 (1.34%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.34%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.07%) Dell
7 4 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.07%) F5
7 4 (1.07%) Infoblox
8 2 (0.53%) Apple
8 2 (0.53%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.27%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) Aruba
9 1 (0.27%) New Relic
9 1 (0.27%) Solace
9 1 (0.27%) Zerto