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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	443	652	746
Rank change year-on-year	+209	+94	-9
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering	421	18	3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.35%	0.037%	0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.48%	0.041%	0.005%
Number of salaries quoted	323	13	3
10^th Percentile	£41,050	£36,750	£90,000
25^th Percentile	£51,000	£55,000	£95,625
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£75,000	£110,000
Median % change year-on-year	-13.33%	-31.82%	-18.52%
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£86,250	£115,000
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£94,000	-
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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	87,897	43,423	57,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.55%	88.69%	82.20%
Number of salaries quoted	59,865	24,627	30,673
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,854	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-8.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,500	£53,928
% change year-on-year	+18.28%	-13.77%	+0.80%

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 Salary Trend

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 18 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 18 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	+168	371	£65,000	-13.33%	225
UK excluding London	+146	331	£60,000	-20.00%	170
Work from Home	+68	135	£67,500	-10.00%	104
North of England	+13	87	£65,000	-13.33%	41
London	-8	72	£87,500	-1.41%	65
South East	+15	71	£55,000	-38.89%	42
Midlands	+17	59	£60,000	-	25
North West	-	47	£65,000	-	22
South West	-26	44	£75,000	-9.09%	12
East Midlands	-	34	£60,000	-	6
North East	-42	30	£65,000	-13.33%	6
East of England	-13	29	£60,000	-20.00%	32
Wales	-	29	£57,500	-	4
West Midlands	-23	25	£50,000	-16.67%	19
Scotland	+17	12	£71,991	+91.98%	14
Yorkshire	-	10	£90,000	-	13
Northern Ireland	-	1	£71,991	-	3

Collaborative Engineering Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing Collaborative Engineering also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Collaborative Engineering.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	45.6%	192
2	Software Engineering	44.7%	188
3	CI/CD	42.5%	179
4	DevOps	32.8%	138
5	Collaborative Culture	31.1%	131
6	Agile	30.9%	130
7	Problem-Solving	29.5%	124
8	Python	27.1%	114
9	AWS	26.8%	113
10	Azure	26.4%	111
11	Mentoring	23.3%	98
12	Terraform	22.1%	93
13	Infrastructure as Code	21.9%	92
14	Security Cleared	21.6%	91
15	Test Automation	19.0%	80
16	Kubernetes	18.1%	76
17	Linux	16.9%	71
18	AI	15.4%	65
19	Observability	14.7%	62
20	Docker	14.3%	60
21	GCP	13.3%	56
22	Git	12.8%	54
22	SQL	12.8%	54
24	SC Cleared	12.4%	52
25	Technical Leadership	12.1%	51
26	SDLC	11.9%	50
26	TypeScript	11.9%	50
28	C#	11.4%	48
28	Containerisation	11.4%	48
30	Code Quality	10.9%	46

Collaborative Engineering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	45.6%	192
2	Software Engineering	44.7%	188
3	CI/CD	42.5%	179
4	DevOps	32.8%	138
5	Collaborative Culture	31.1%	131
6	Agile	30.9%	130
7	Problem-Solving	29.5%	124
8	Mentoring	23.3%	98
9	Infrastructure as Code	21.9%	92
10	Test Automation	19.0%	80
11	AI	15.4%	65
12	Observability	14.7%	62
13	Technical Leadership	12.1%	51
14	SDLC	11.9%	50
15	Containerisation	11.4%	48
16	Code Quality	10.9%	46
17	Platform Engineering	10.7%	45
18	Clean Code	10.5%	44
19	Microservices	9.7%	41
20	Root Cause Analysis	8.8%	37