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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 667 812
Rank change year-on-year +180 +145 +38
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 297 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.024% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.027% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 244 12 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,188 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £67,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -28.95% +49.02%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -21.05% +30.85%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +160 263 £65,000 -13.33% 187
UK excluding London +142 229 £60,000 -20.00% 159
Work from Home +79 101 £62,500 -16.67% 102
North of England - 56 £65,000 - 38
Midlands +13 55 £54,000 -10.00% 26
London +11 52 £87,500 -18.60% 53
South East - 52 £56,250 - 46
North West - 32 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands +6 28 £50,000 -16.67% 16
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 10
South West -43 21 £57,500 -36.11% 20
Wales - 18 £58,750 - 6
East of England -5 16 £60,000 -20.00% 20
North East - 14 £65,000 - 12
Scotland +18 10 £60,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 1

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 (2.36%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.35%) Apache
2 4 (1.35%) Confluence
3 3 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Simulink
2 2 (0.67%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.34%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (32.32%) AWS
2 88 (29.63%) Azure
3 41 (13.80%) GCP
4 20 (6.73%) GitHub
5 17 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (4.71%) SaaS
7 14 (4.71%) Serverless
8 13 (4.38%) dbt
9 11 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.69%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (2.36%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.05%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.71%) Firewall
3 11 (3.70%) DNS
4 8 (2.69%) Wireless
5 7 (2.36%) LTE
6 6 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.35%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.35%) BGP
7 4 (1.35%) VoIP
7 4 (1.35%) VPN
7 4 (1.35%) VSAT
8 3 (1.01%) WAN
9 2 (0.67%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.67%) 5G
9 2 (0.67%) LAN
10 1 (0.34%) Internet
10 1 (0.34%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.34%) OSPF
10 1 (0.34%) VLAN
10 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.38%) MongoDB
1 13 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.69%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.69%) MySQL
5 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.68%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) Power BI
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.67%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.67%) Redis
10 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (15.82%) Git
2 9 (3.03%) GitLab
3 7 (2.36%) JIRA
4 6 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.02%) Selenium
5 5 (1.68%) NUnit
6 4 (1.35%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.35%) Mocha
6 4 (1.35%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.67%) CMake
7 2 (0.67%) Postman
7 2 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) GDB
8 1 (0.34%) git-flow
8 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.34%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 103 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (13.47%) Finance
3 29 (9.76%) Electronics
4 13 (4.38%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.04%) Aviation
6 11 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.03%) Games
8 6 (2.02%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.68%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.35%) Local Government
11 3 (1.01%) Advertising
11 3 (1.01%) Banking
11 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Military
12 2 (0.67%) Publishing
12 2 (0.67%) Retail
12 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (26.26%) Senior
2 62 (20.88%) Software Engineer
3 53 (17.85%) Developer
4 31 (10.44%) Lead
5 29 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.08%) Embedded Engineer
6 24 (8.08%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (7.07%) Data Engineer
8 19 (6.40%) Python Engineer
9 18 (6.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 16 (5.39%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (4.38%) Site Engineer
12 13 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.04%) Electronics Engineer
14 11 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (3.03%) Technical Engineer
15 9 (3.03%) Technical Support
15 9 (3.03%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.16%) .NET
2 27 (9.09%) React
3 22 (7.41%) REST
4 21 (7.07%) .NET Framework
5 18 (6.06%) ASP.NET
5 18 (6.06%) Kafka
6 16 (5.39%) Entity Framework
6 16 (5.39%) Node.js
7 15 (5.05%) ASP.NET Core
8 11 (3.70%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.37%) RESTful
10 9 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (3.03%) Spring
11 8 (2.69%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.69%) PySpark
11 8 (2.69%) React Native
11 8 (2.69%) Vue
11 8 (2.69%) Yocto
12 7 (2.36%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 42 (14.14%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.73%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.71%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.69%) IoT
9 7 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.02%) Device Driver
10 6 (2.02%) FPGA
11 5 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.68%) PCIe
11 5 (1.68%) Verilog
11 5 (1.68%) VHDL
12 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.35%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.35%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 52 (17.51%) Linux
2 15 (5.05%) Unix
3 14 (4.71%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.70%) Android
4 11 (3.70%) Windows
5 7 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 141 (47.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 130 (43.77%) Software Engineering
4 119 (40.07%) Agile
5 105 (35.35%) DevOps
6 94 (31.65%) Collaborative Culture
7 87 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (22.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (22.56%) Mentoring
10 61 (20.54%) Test Automation
11 50 (16.84%) AI
12 49 (16.50%) Observability
13 41 (13.80%) Technical Leadership
14 39 (13.13%) SDLC
15 37 (12.46%) Clean Code
16 35 (11.78%) Platform Engineering
17 34 (11.45%) Containerisation
18 32 (10.77%) Microservices
19 31 (10.44%) Code Quality
20 30 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 101 (34.01%) Python
2 51 (17.17%) SQL
3 46 (15.49%) C#
4 41 (13.80%) Java
5 39 (13.13%) TypeScript
6 36 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 29 (9.76%) C++
8 22 (7.41%) Bash
9 19 (6.40%) C
10 13 (4.38%) PowerShell
11 11 (3.70%) Embedded C
11 11 (3.70%) Go
12 9 (3.03%) PHP
12 9 (3.03%) Scala
13 7 (2.36%) Kotlin
14 6 (2.02%) Embedded C++
14 6 (2.02%) Perl
15 5 (1.68%) Bicep
15 5 (1.68%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.38%) Degree
4 12 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.37%) HNC
6 7 (2.36%) HND
7 6 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.34%) CCIE
12 1 (0.34%) CCNP
12 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.34%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.34%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.08%) QA
2 12 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.01%) GDPR
3 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
System Software
1 35 (11.78%) Docker
2 11 (3.70%) Firmware
3 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (22.22%) Terraform
2 50 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.04%) Grafana
4 11 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.37%) Ansible
6 6 (2.02%) Argo
7 4 (1.35%) Istio
8 3 (1.01%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.01%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) linkerd
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.06%) Google
3 14 (4.71%) Databricks
4 9 (3.03%) Cisco
5 6 (2.02%) VMware
6 5 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.01%) Dell
8 3 (1.01%) F5
8 3 (1.01%) Infoblox
8 3 (1.01%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.67%) Apple
9 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.67%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.34%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.34%) Arista
10 1 (0.34%) FXall
10 1 (0.34%) New Relic
10 1 (0.34%) OpenAI