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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 645 766
Rank change year-on-year +186 +121 -26
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 386 21 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.042% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.048% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 298 16 3
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £90,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £50,438 £95,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% -14.29% +105.88%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +179 340 £65,000 -13.33% 258
UK excluding London +122 298 £60,000 -20.00% 203
Work from Home +74 121 £66,250 -11.67% 145
North of England +16 79 £65,000 -13.33% 54
London -3 70 £87,500 -15.66% 84
South East +17 66 £55,000 -38.89% 42
Midlands +9 58 £60,000 - 26
North West - 40 £65,000 - 37
South West -42 35 £67,500 -18.18% 21
East Midlands - 31 £60,000 - 8
North East -36 28 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Wales - 28 £57,500 - 8
West Midlands -14 27 £50,000 -16.67% 18
East of England -21 21 £60,000 -20.00% 30
Scotland +13 11 £71,991 +91.98% 18
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 6

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 9 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.81%) Apache
3 3 (0.78%) SAS
4 2 (0.52%) CMS
4 2 (0.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Simulink
2 3 (0.78%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Civil 3D
4 1 (0.26%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (29.27%) AWS
2 108 (27.98%) Azure
3 55 (14.25%) GCP
4 28 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (5.70%) GitHub
6 20 (5.18%) Serverless
7 17 (4.40%) dbt
8 15 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.11%) SaaS
11 11 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (2.33%) Snowflake
14 8 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (1.81%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.55%) Azure Functions
16 6 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.18%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.15%) Firewall
3 14 (3.63%) DNS
4 13 (3.37%) Wireless
5 12 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.07%) LTE
6 8 (2.07%) VPN
7 7 (1.81%) BGP
8 4 (1.04%) 5G
8 4 (1.04%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.04%) VoIP
8 4 (1.04%) VSAT
9 3 (0.78%) 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 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.15%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.59%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.33%) MySQL
6 8 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.81%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.81%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.30%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.52%) Big Data
11 2 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.52%) Power BI
11 2 (0.52%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (13.73%) Git
2 11 (2.85%) GitLab
3 7 (1.81%) JIRA
4 6 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.55%) Selenium
5 5 (1.30%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.30%) Mocha
5 5 (1.30%) NUnit
6 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.78%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.52%) CMake
8 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) GDB
9 1 (0.26%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 149 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.95%) Finance
4 45 (11.66%) Electronics
5 27 (6.99%) Manufacturing
6 20 (5.18%) Aviation
7 13 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.85%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.07%) Automotive
9 8 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.55%) Games
10 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.30%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.04%) Banking
12 4 (1.04%) Front Office
13 3 (0.78%) Law
13 3 (0.78%) Military
13 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Advertising
14 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (29.02%) Senior
2 88 (22.80%) Software Engineer
3 50 (12.95%) Developer
4 39 (10.10%) Embedded Engineer
5 35 (9.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (8.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 31 (8.03%) Lead
8 29 (7.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 29 (7.51%) Python Engineer
9 27 (6.99%) Electronics Engineer
10 23 (5.96%) Data Engineer
11 21 (5.44%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.92%) Site Engineer
12 19 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.63%) Design Engineer
14 14 (3.63%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (3.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 12 (3.11%) Support Engineer
16 11 (2.85%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (23.06%) Terraform
2 47 (12.18%) .NET
3 35 (9.07%) React
4 29 (7.51%) REST
5 22 (5.70%) Kafka
6 19 (4.92%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.89%) ASP.NET
8 14 (3.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (3.63%) Node.js
9 13 (3.37%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.37%) RESTful
10 12 (3.11%) Spring
10 12 (3.11%) Yocto
11 11 (2.85%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.33%) PySpark
12 9 (2.33%) Spring Boot
13 8 (2.07%) NestJS
13 8 (2.07%) Vue
14 7 (1.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.51%) Cloud Native
2 52 (13.47%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.48%) Embedded Systems
4 16 (4.15%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.37%) Analogue Electronics
6 11 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.85%) IoT
7 10 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.33%) Device Driver
8 9 (2.33%) FPGA
8 9 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.81%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.30%) PCIe
12 5 (1.30%) Verilog
12 5 (1.30%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.36%) Linux
2 19 (4.92%) Embedded Linux
2 19 (4.92%) Unix
3 14 (3.63%) Windows
4 10 (2.59%) Android
5 6 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.52%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (47.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 176 (45.60%) Software Engineering
3 170 (44.04%) CI/CD
4 130 (33.68%) Agile
5 128 (33.16%) DevOps
6 125 (32.38%) Collaborative Culture
7 119 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (24.35%) Mentoring
9 91 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (19.95%) Test Automation
11 64 (16.58%) Observability
12 62 (16.06%) AI
13 50 (12.95%) Technical Leadership
14 48 (12.44%) SDLC
15 46 (11.92%) Code Quality
16 45 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
17 43 (11.14%) Containerisation
18 42 (10.88%) Clean Code
19 37 (9.59%) Microservices
20 36 (9.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 115 (29.79%) Python
2 56 (14.51%) SQL
3 50 (12.95%) C#
4 43 (11.14%) Java
4 43 (11.14%) TypeScript
5 35 (9.07%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.51%) C++
7 27 (6.99%) C
8 26 (6.74%) Bash
9 24 (6.22%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.89%) Embedded C
10 15 (3.89%) Scala
11 13 (3.37%) Go
12 9 (2.33%) PHP
13 7 (1.81%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.81%) Perl
14 6 (1.55%) Embedded C++
14 6 (1.55%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.30%) Rust
16 4 (1.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 88 (22.80%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.48%) Degree
4 19 (4.92%) HNC
5 15 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.89%) HND
6 7 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) City & Guilds
8 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.52%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.26%) CCIE
9 1 (0.26%) CCNP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.29%) QA
2 13 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.04%) GDPR
4 4 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.26%) ECSS
6 1 (0.26%) GAMP
6 1 (0.26%) GMP
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 54 (13.99%) Docker
2 17 (4.40%) Firmware
3 6 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.63%) Ansible
2 14 (3.63%) Grafana
3 11 (2.85%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.55%) Argo
5 4 (1.04%) Istio
6 3 (0.78%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.78%) Puppet
7 2 (0.52%) Kibana
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.52%) Packer
7 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 40 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.22%) Google
3 17 (4.40%) Databricks
4 11 (2.85%) Cisco
5 10 (2.59%) VMware
6 6 (1.55%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.30%) Dell
7 5 (1.30%) EMC
7 5 (1.30%) F5
7 5 (1.30%) Infoblox
7 5 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.52%) Apple
9 2 (0.52%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.26%) Arista
10 1 (0.26%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.26%) IBM
10 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle
10 1 (0.26%) Siemens