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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 672 812
Rank change year-on-year +174 +140 +15
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 312 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.022% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.025% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 257 11 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -36.84% +49.02%
75th Percentile £79,800 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 -
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 76,763 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.58% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,880 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +166 277 £65,000 -3.70% 246
UK excluding London +134 239 £60,000 -20.00% 197
Work from Home +83 106 £65,000 -13.33% 127
North of England - 59 £65,000 - 46
Midlands +24 58 £54,000 -10.00% 24
London +1 57 £87,500 -23.08% 82
South East - 54 £55,000 - 52
North West - 34 £60,000 - 29
West Midlands -1 31 £50,000 -16.67% 14
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 10
South West -39 21 £57,500 -36.11% 29
Wales - 20 £62,500 - 4
East of England -10 17 £60,000 -20.00% 30
North East - 16 £65,000 - 9
Scotland +19 9 £60,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire - 9 £90,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 10

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 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.28%) Apache
2 4 (1.28%) Confluence
3 3 (0.96%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.60%) Simulink
2 2 (0.64%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.32%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (32.37%) AWS
2 94 (30.13%) Azure
3 46 (14.74%) GCP
4 21 (6.73%) GitHub
5 20 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.45%) dbt
8 14 (4.49%) Serverless
9 12 (3.85%) SaaS
10 11 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.88%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 4 (1.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.09%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.49%) Firewall
3 11 (3.53%) DNS
4 8 (2.56%) Wireless
5 7 (2.24%) LTE
6 6 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.28%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.28%) BGP
7 4 (1.28%) VoIP
7 4 (1.28%) VPN
7 4 (1.28%) VSAT
8 3 (0.96%) WAN
9 2 (0.64%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.64%) 5G
9 2 (0.64%) LAN
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.32%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.32%) VLAN
10 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 13 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.88%) MySQL
4 8 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.60%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.96%) Big Data
9 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.64%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.64%) Power BI
9 2 (0.64%) Redis
9 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (15.38%) Git
2 9 (2.88%) GitLab
3 7 (2.24%) JIRA
3 7 (2.24%) Selenium
4 6 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.92%) NUnit
5 5 (1.60%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.60%) Mocha
6 4 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.64%) CMake
7 2 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) GDB
8 1 (0.32%) git-flow
8 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (12.50%) Finance
4 30 (9.62%) Electronics
5 13 (4.17%) Aviation
5 13 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 13 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.88%) Games
7 6 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.60%) Welsh Language
9 4 (1.28%) Local Government
10 3 (0.96%) Advertising
10 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Law
10 3 (0.96%) Military
11 2 (0.64%) Automotive
11 2 (0.64%) Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Retail
11 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (27.56%) Senior
2 67 (21.47%) Software Engineer
3 56 (17.95%) Developer
4 32 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (9.94%) Lead
6 27 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
8 23 (7.37%) Python Engineer
9 21 (6.73%) Data Engineer
10 20 (6.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 17 (5.45%) Site Engineer
11 17 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (5.13%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.49%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (4.17%) Electronics Engineer
14 13 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
16 9 (2.88%) Technical Engineer
16 9 (2.88%) Technical Support Engineer
16 9 (2.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.38%) .NET
2 29 (9.29%) React
3 22 (7.05%) REST
4 21 (6.73%) .NET Framework
5 18 (5.77%) ASP.NET
5 18 (5.77%) Kafka
6 17 (5.45%) Node.js
7 16 (5.13%) Entity Framework
8 15 (4.81%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.53%) RESTful
10 9 (2.88%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (2.88%) Spring
11 8 (2.56%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.56%) PySpark
11 8 (2.56%) React Native
11 8 (2.56%) Vue
11 8 (2.56%) Yocto
12 7 (2.24%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.92%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 47 (15.06%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.09%) Mobile App
4 16 (5.13%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.56%) IoT
9 7 (2.24%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.92%) Device Driver
10 6 (1.92%) FPGA
11 5 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.60%) PCIe
11 5 (1.60%) Verilog
11 5 (1.60%) VHDL
12 4 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.28%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.28%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.27%) Linux
2 19 (6.09%) Unix
3 14 (4.49%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.53%) Android
4 11 (3.53%) Windows
5 7 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (49.04%) Continuous Improvement
2 151 (48.40%) CI/CD
3 141 (45.19%) Software Engineering
4 120 (38.46%) Agile
5 113 (36.22%) DevOps
6 97 (31.09%) Collaborative Culture
7 88 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (23.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (23.72%) Mentoring
9 64 (20.51%) Test Automation
10 54 (17.31%) Observability
11 52 (16.67%) AI
12 43 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (13.14%) Clean Code
13 41 (13.14%) SDLC
14 38 (12.18%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (11.54%) Containerisation
16 33 (10.58%) Microservices
17 32 (10.26%) Code Quality
17 32 (10.26%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.97%) Python
2 50 (16.03%) SQL
3 46 (14.74%) C#
4 41 (13.14%) Java
4 41 (13.14%) TypeScript
5 36 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 29 (9.29%) C++
7 22 (7.05%) Bash
8 20 (6.41%) C
9 13 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.85%) Scala
11 11 (3.53%) Embedded C
11 11 (3.53%) Go
12 9 (2.88%) PHP
13 7 (2.24%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.92%) Embedded C++
14 6 (1.92%) Perl
15 5 (1.60%) Bicep
15 5 (1.60%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 76 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.49%) Degree
4 12 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.53%) HNC
6 8 (2.56%) HND
7 6 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.64%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.64%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.32%) CCIE
12 1 (0.32%) CCNP
12 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.01%) QA
2 12 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.96%) GDPR
3 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 37 (11.86%) Docker
2 12 (3.85%) Firmware
3 5 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (23.08%) Terraform
2 52 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.85%) Grafana
4 11 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.21%) Ansible
6 6 (1.92%) Argo
7 4 (1.28%) Istio
8 3 (0.96%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.96%) Puppet
9 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.32%) Kibana
9 1 (0.32%) linkerd
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.05%) Google
3 14 (4.49%) Databricks
4 9 (2.88%) Cisco
5 6 (1.92%) VMware
6 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.28%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.96%) Dell
8 3 (0.96%) F5
8 3 (0.96%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.96%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.64%) Apple
9 2 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.64%) EMC
9 2 (0.64%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.32%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.32%) New Relic
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle
10 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.32%) Sophos