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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 662 809
Rank change year-on-year +185 +147 -38
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 345 17 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.034% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.038% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 279 14 3
10th Percentile £42,400 - £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% +100.00%
75th Percentile £79,800 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,105 £108,125 -
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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 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 1 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 +160 308 £65,000 -13.33% 238
UK excluding London +134 259 £60,000 -20.00% 187
Work from Home +92 119 £65,000 -13.33% 115
London +13 68 £87,500 -23.08% 86
North of England +15 63 £65,000 -13.33% 46
South East +21 62 £55,000 -38.89% 55
Midlands +14 58 £54,000 -10.00% 18
North West - 32 £65,000 - 23
West Midlands +7 31 £50,000 -16.67% 10
South West -47 28 £67,500 -25.00% 19
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 8
Wales - 22 £58,750 - 5
North East -41 21 £65,000 -13.33% 13
East of England -5 17 £60,000 -20.00% 29
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 11
Scotland +6 9 £60,000 +60.00% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 7

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 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.45%) Apache
3 3 (0.87%) Confluence
3 3 (0.87%) SAS
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Simulink
2 2 (0.58%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.29%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (32.75%) AWS
2 102 (29.57%) Azure
3 51 (14.78%) GCP
4 25 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.96%) GitHub
6 20 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (4.93%) dbt
8 15 (4.35%) Serverless
9 13 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.48%) SaaS
11 11 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.61%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.74%) Azure AKS
15 6 (1.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.80%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.06%) Firewall
3 12 (3.48%) DNS
4 10 (2.90%) Wireless
5 9 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.32%) LTE
7 6 (1.74%) VPN
8 5 (1.45%) BGP
9 4 (1.16%) 5G
9 4 (1.16%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.16%) VoIP
9 4 (1.16%) VSAT
10 3 (0.87%) WAN
11 2 (0.58%) 3GPP
11 2 (0.58%) DHCP
11 2 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.58%) LAN
11 2 (0.58%) OSPF
11 2 (0.58%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.58%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.61%) MySQL
6 8 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.32%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.32%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.03%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.58%) Big Data
11 2 (0.58%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.58%) Power BI
11 2 (0.58%) Redis
11 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (14.20%) Git
2 9 (2.61%) GitLab
3 8 (2.32%) JIRA
4 7 (2.03%) Selenium
5 6 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.45%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.45%) Mocha
6 5 (1.45%) NUnit
7 4 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.58%) CMake
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) GDB
9 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.29%) Postman
9 1 (0.29%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 125 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (13.04%) Finance
4 39 (11.30%) Electronics
5 17 (4.93%) Aviation
5 17 (4.93%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.61%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.61%) Games
8 5 (1.45%) Automotive
8 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.45%) Law
8 5 (1.45%) Welsh Language
9 4 (1.16%) Banking
9 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.16%) Front Office
9 4 (1.16%) Local Government
10 3 (0.87%) Advertising
10 3 (0.87%) Military
10 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (26.67%) Senior
2 69 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 60 (17.39%) Developer
4 34 (9.86%) Lead
5 33 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (8.99%) Embedded Engineer
7 26 (7.54%) Python Engineer
8 25 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 24 (6.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 21 (6.09%) Data Engineer
11 20 (5.80%) Electronics Engineer
12 19 (5.51%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.51%) Site Engineer
12 19 (5.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 13 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (3.19%) Support Engineer
16 10 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
17 9 (2.61%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (23.48%) Terraform
2 47 (13.62%) .NET
3 27 (7.83%) React
4 23 (6.67%) REST
5 21 (6.09%) .NET Framework
5 21 (6.09%) Kafka
6 18 (5.22%) ASP.NET
7 16 (4.64%) Entity Framework
7 16 (4.64%) Node.js
8 15 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (4.06%) RESTful
10 11 (3.19%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (2.61%) PySpark
11 9 (2.61%) Spring
11 9 (2.61%) Yocto
12 8 (2.32%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.32%) Playwright
12 8 (2.32%) Vue
13 7 (2.03%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.36%) Cloud Native
1 53 (15.36%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (5.80%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (5.80%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.32%) IoT
6 7 (2.03%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.03%) Analogue Electronics
6 7 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.03%) FPGA
6 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.74%) Device Driver
8 5 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.45%) PCIe
8 5 (1.45%) Verilog
8 5 (1.45%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 64 (18.55%) Linux
2 19 (5.51%) Unix
3 16 (4.64%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.19%) Android
5 10 (2.90%) Windows
6 6 (1.74%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.58%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (48.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 160 (46.38%) CI/CD
3 154 (44.64%) Software Engineering
4 127 (36.81%) Agile
5 121 (35.07%) DevOps
6 112 (32.46%) Collaborative Culture
7 101 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (25.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 81 (23.48%) Mentoring
10 70 (20.29%) Test Automation
11 61 (17.68%) Observability
12 53 (15.36%) AI
13 47 (13.62%) Technical Leadership
14 46 (13.33%) SDLC
15 45 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (12.17%) Containerisation
17 41 (11.88%) Clean Code
18 39 (11.30%) Code Quality
19 37 (10.72%) Software Architecture
20 35 (10.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 108 (31.30%) Python
2 59 (17.10%) SQL
3 50 (14.49%) C#
4 44 (12.75%) Java
5 39 (11.30%) TypeScript
6 37 (10.72%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.41%) C++
8 26 (7.54%) Bash
9 21 (6.09%) C
10 20 (5.80%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.35%) Scala
12 14 (4.06%) Go
13 11 (3.19%) Embedded C
14 9 (2.61%) PHP
15 7 (2.03%) Kotlin
15 7 (2.03%) Perl
16 6 (1.74%) Embedded C++
17 5 (1.45%) MATLAB
17 5 (1.45%) Rust
18 4 (1.16%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 84 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.64%) Degree
4 13 (3.77%) HNC
5 12 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.90%) HND
7 8 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.87%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.58%) City & Guilds
12 2 (0.58%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.29%) CCIE
13 1 (0.29%) CCNP
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.99%) QA
2 12 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.16%) GDPR
4 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.29%) JTAG
System Software
1 41 (11.88%) Docker
2 17 (4.93%) Firmware
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.35%) Ansible
3 14 (4.06%) Grafana
4 11 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.74%) Argo
6 4 (1.16%) Istio
7 3 (0.87%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.87%) Puppet
8 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.29%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.38%) Google
3 15 (4.35%) Databricks
4 9 (2.61%) Cisco
5 8 (2.32%) VMware
6 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.16%) EMC
7 4 (1.16%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.87%) Dell
8 3 (0.87%) F5
8 3 (0.87%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.87%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.58%) Apple
9 2 (0.58%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.29%) Arista
10 1 (0.29%) IBM
10 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce