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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 657 790
Rank change year-on-year +179 +133 -14
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 360 19 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.038% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.043% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 287 15 3
10th Percentile £42,000 - £57,400
25th Percentile £50,500 £36,750 £75,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -31.82% +72.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,250 -
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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 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 11 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 +164 321 £65,000 -13.33% 171
UK excluding London +125 273 £60,000 -20.00% 120
Work from Home +82 122 £62,500 -16.67% 85
London +9 70 £87,500 -18.60% 66
North of England +25 67 £65,000 -13.33% 35
South East +23 67 £55,000 -38.89% 29
Midlands +11 59 £57,000 -5.00% 15
North West - 34 £65,000 - 20
West Midlands -1 31 £50,000 -16.67% 8
South West -49 28 £67,500 -25.00% 14
East Midlands - 28 £60,000 - 7
Wales - 25 £57,500 - 2
North East -35 23 £57,500 -23.33% 10
East of England -12 19 £60,000 -20.00% 16
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 6
Scotland +16 8 £60,000 +60.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 -

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 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.39%) Apache
3 3 (0.83%) Confluence
3 3 (0.83%) SAS
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Simulink
2 3 (0.83%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.28%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.28%) EPLAN
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (31.11%) AWS
2 105 (29.17%) Azure
3 52 (14.44%) GCP
4 26 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.94%) GitHub
6 20 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (4.72%) dbt
7 17 (4.72%) Serverless
8 14 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.33%) SaaS
10 11 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.50%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.94%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.89%) Firewall
3 12 (3.33%) DNS
4 11 (3.06%) Wireless
5 10 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.22%) LTE
7 6 (1.67%) VPN
8 5 (1.39%) BGP
9 4 (1.11%) 5G
9 4 (1.11%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.11%) VoIP
9 4 (1.11%) VSAT
10 3 (0.83%) WAN
11 2 (0.56%) 3GPP
11 2 (0.56%) DHCP
11 2 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.56%) LAN
11 2 (0.56%) OSPF
11 2 (0.56%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.61%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (2.50%) MySQL
6 8 (2.22%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.56%) Big Data
11 2 (0.56%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.56%) Power BI
11 2 (0.56%) Redis
12 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 50 (13.89%) Git
2 9 (2.50%) GitLab
3 8 (2.22%) JIRA
4 7 (1.94%) Selenium
5 6 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.39%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.39%) Mocha
6 5 (1.39%) NUnit
7 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.56%) CMake
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) GDB
9 1 (0.28%) git-flow
9 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 133 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (12.50%) Finance
4 44 (12.22%) Electronics
5 23 (6.39%) Manufacturing
6 19 (5.28%) Aviation
7 13 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.06%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.50%) Games
10 7 (1.94%) Automotive
11 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.39%) Law
11 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.39%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.11%) Banking
12 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Front Office
13 3 (0.83%) Advertising
13 3 (0.83%) Local Government
13 3 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 97 (26.94%) Senior
2 73 (20.28%) Software Engineer
3 58 (16.11%) Developer
4 34 (9.44%) Embedded Engineer
4 34 (9.44%) Lead
5 33 (9.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 26 (7.22%) Python Engineer
6 26 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (6.94%) Electronics Engineer
8 21 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 19 (5.28%) Site Engineer
9 19 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 14 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (3.33%) Support Engineer
14 11 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.78%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (23.33%) Terraform
2 46 (12.78%) .NET
3 28 (7.78%) React
4 23 (6.39%) REST
5 20 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 20 (5.56%) Kafka
6 17 (4.72%) ASP.NET
7 16 (4.44%) Node.js
8 15 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
8 15 (4.17%) Entity Framework
9 14 (3.89%) RESTful
10 11 (3.06%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.78%) Spring
11 10 (2.78%) Yocto
12 9 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.50%) PySpark
13 8 (2.22%) Playwright
13 8 (2.22%) Spring Boot
13 8 (2.22%) Vue
14 7 (1.94%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.72%) Cloud Native
1 53 (14.72%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.11%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (5.28%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.06%) Analogue Electronics
7 9 (2.50%) IoT
8 8 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.22%) FPGA
9 7 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.94%) Device Driver
9 7 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.39%) PCIe
11 5 (1.39%) Verilog
11 5 (1.39%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.06%) Linux
2 19 (5.28%) Unix
3 17 (4.72%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.06%) Android
5 10 (2.78%) Windows
6 6 (1.67%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.56%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.28%) Debian
9 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (47.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 163 (45.28%) CI/CD
3 159 (44.17%) Software Engineering
4 128 (35.56%) Agile
5 124 (34.44%) DevOps
6 115 (31.94%) Collaborative Culture
7 107 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 83 (23.06%) Mentoring
10 71 (19.72%) Test Automation
11 62 (17.22%) Observability
12 54 (15.00%) AI
13 49 (13.61%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (13.06%) SDLC
15 46 (12.78%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (11.94%) Containerisation
17 41 (11.39%) Code Quality
18 40 (11.11%) Clean Code
19 37 (10.28%) Software Architecture
20 34 (9.44%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 109 (30.28%) Python
2 60 (16.67%) SQL
3 50 (13.89%) C#
4 44 (12.22%) Java
5 40 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 36 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 30 (8.33%) C++
8 26 (7.22%) Bash
9 24 (6.67%) C
10 23 (6.39%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.17%) Scala
12 14 (3.89%) Go
13 13 (3.61%) Embedded C
14 9 (2.50%) PHP
15 7 (1.94%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.94%) Perl
16 6 (1.67%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.67%) MATLAB
17 5 (1.39%) Rust
18 4 (1.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 85 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.06%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.83%) Degree
4 17 (4.72%) HNC
5 12 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.33%) HND
6 8 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) City & Guilds
10 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.56%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) CCIE
11 1 (0.28%) CCNP
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.17%) QA
2 12 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) ECSS
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.28%) JTAG
System Software
1 44 (12.22%) Docker
2 19 (5.28%) Firmware
3 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.17%) Ansible
3 14 (3.89%) Grafana
4 11 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.67%) Argo
6 4 (1.11%) Istio
7 3 (0.83%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.83%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.28%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) linkerd
9 1 (0.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.11%) Google
3 15 (4.17%) Databricks
4 9 (2.50%) Cisco
5 8 (2.22%) VMware
6 5 (1.39%) EMC
6 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.11%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.83%) Dell
8 3 (0.83%) F5
8 3 (0.83%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.83%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.56%) Apple
10 1 (0.28%) Aruba
10 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.28%) IBM
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle
10 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.28%) Veeam