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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 652 782
Rank change year-on-year +189 +130 -25
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 381 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 300 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 £78,750 £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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £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 22 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 22 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 +159 337 £65,000 -13.33% 234
UK excluding London +124 294 £60,000 -20.00% 173
Work from Home +78 125 £65,000 -13.33% 120
North of England +7 77 £65,000 -13.33% 50
London -6 70 £87,500 -18.60% 82
South East +21 66 £55,000 -38.89% 33
Midlands +14 60 £60,000 - 24
North West - 39 £65,000 - 34
South West -46 33 £67,500 -18.18% 14
West Midlands -20 30 £50,000 -16.67% 16
East Midlands - 30 £60,000 - 8
Wales - 28 £57,500 - 4
North East -39 27 £65,000 -13.33% 7
East of England -9 20 £60,000 -20.00% 28
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 10
Scotland +15 10 £71,991 +91.98% 20
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 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.31%) Apache
3 3 (0.79%) Confluence
3 3 (0.79%) SAS
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.26%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Simulink
2 3 (0.79%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.26%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.26%) EPLAN
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) MicroStation
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (30.18%) AWS
2 110 (28.87%) Azure
3 53 (13.91%) GCP
4 28 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.56%) GitHub
6 20 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (4.99%) Serverless
8 17 (4.46%) dbt
9 14 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.15%) SaaS
11 11 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.36%) Snowflake
14 8 (2.10%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (1.84%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.25%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.20%) Firewall
3 14 (3.67%) DNS
4 12 (3.15%) Wireless
5 11 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.10%) LTE
6 8 (2.10%) VPN
7 7 (1.84%) BGP
8 4 (1.05%) 5G
8 4 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.05%) VoIP
8 4 (1.05%) VSAT
9 3 (0.79%) WAN
10 2 (0.52%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.52%) DHCP
10 2 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.52%) LAN
10 2 (0.52%) OSPF
10 2 (0.52%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.52%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.20%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.36%) MySQL
6 8 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.10%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.31%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.52%) Big Data
11 2 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.52%) Power BI
11 2 (0.52%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 50 (13.12%) Git
2 11 (2.89%) GitLab
3 8 (2.10%) JIRA
4 7 (1.84%) Selenium
5 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.31%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.31%) Mocha
6 5 (1.31%) NUnit
7 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.52%) CMake
9 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.26%) git-flow
10 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.26%) Postman
10 1 (0.26%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (12.60%) Finance
4 45 (11.81%) Electronics
5 25 (6.56%) Manufacturing
6 19 (4.99%) Aviation
7 12 (3.15%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.89%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.10%) Automotive
9 8 (2.10%) Games
10 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.31%) Law
11 5 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.31%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.05%) Banking
12 4 (1.05%) Front Office
13 3 (0.79%) Advertising
13 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Military
13 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (28.08%) Senior
2 81 (21.26%) Software Engineer
3 55 (14.44%) Developer
4 36 (9.45%) Embedded Engineer
5 34 (8.92%) Lead
6 33 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (7.09%) Electronics Engineer
8 27 (7.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 26 (6.82%) Python Engineer
10 23 (6.04%) Data Engineer
11 20 (5.25%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.99%) Site Engineer
12 19 (4.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
15 13 (3.41%) Design Engineer
15 13 (3.41%) Support Engineer
16 11 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (2.89%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (22.83%) Terraform
2 49 (12.86%) .NET
3 34 (8.92%) React
4 27 (7.09%) REST
5 22 (5.77%) Kafka
6 21 (5.51%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.94%) ASP.NET
8 14 (3.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (3.67%) Node.js
9 13 (3.41%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.41%) RESTful
9 13 (3.41%) Spring
10 11 (2.89%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.89%) Yocto
11 9 (2.36%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (2.36%) PySpark
11 9 (2.36%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.10%) Playwright
13 7 (1.84%) CSS
13 7 (1.84%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.04%) Embedded Systems
4 17 (4.46%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.15%) Analogue Electronics
7 11 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.62%) IoT
8 10 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.36%) FPGA
10 8 (2.10%) Device Driver
11 7 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.84%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.84%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.84%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.31%) Verilog
13 5 (1.31%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 66 (17.32%) Linux
2 19 (4.99%) Unix
3 18 (4.72%) Embedded Linux
4 14 (3.67%) Windows
5 10 (2.62%) Android
6 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.52%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.26%) Debian
9 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (47.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 169 (44.36%) CI/CD
2 169 (44.36%) Software Engineering
3 135 (35.43%) Agile
4 129 (33.86%) DevOps
5 122 (32.02%) Collaborative Culture
6 114 (29.92%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 89 (23.36%) Mentoring
9 75 (19.69%) Test Automation
10 65 (17.06%) Observability
11 63 (16.54%) AI
12 49 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
13 48 (12.60%) SDLC
14 46 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
15 44 (11.55%) Code Quality
16 43 (11.29%) Containerisation
17 39 (10.24%) Clean Code
18 38 (9.97%) Microservices
19 36 (9.45%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.18%) Python
2 57 (14.96%) SQL
3 54 (14.17%) C#
4 47 (12.34%) Java
5 42 (11.02%) TypeScript
6 38 (9.97%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.87%) C++
8 26 (6.82%) Bash
8 26 (6.82%) C
9 24 (6.30%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.94%) Scala
11 14 (3.67%) Embedded C
11 14 (3.67%) Go
12 9 (2.36%) PHP
13 7 (1.84%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.84%) Perl
14 6 (1.57%) Embedded C++
14 6 (1.57%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.31%) Rust
16 4 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 89 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.04%) Degree
4 17 (4.46%) HNC
5 14 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.15%) HND
7 8 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.52%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.52%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.26%) CCIE
12 1 (0.26%) CCNP
12 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.92%) QA
2 12 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.05%) GDPR
4 4 (1.05%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) ECSS
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.26%) JTAG
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (13.12%) Docker
2 18 (4.72%) Firmware
3 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.31%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (18.11%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.94%) Ansible
3 14 (3.67%) Grafana
4 11 (2.89%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.57%) Argo
6 4 (1.05%) Istio
7 3 (0.79%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.79%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.26%) Kibana
9 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 38 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.77%) Google
3 15 (3.94%) Databricks
4 11 (2.89%) Cisco
5 10 (2.62%) VMware
6 6 (1.57%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.31%) Dell
7 5 (1.31%) EMC
7 5 (1.31%) F5
7 5 (1.31%) Infoblox
7 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.05%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.52%) Apple
9 2 (0.52%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.26%) Aruba
10 1 (0.26%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.26%) IBM
10 1 (0.26%) New Relic
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle
10 1 (0.26%) Veeam