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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 666 821
Rank change year-on-year +185 +155 +13
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 301 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.024% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.027% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 248 12 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
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 1 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 1 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 +172 266 £65,000 -13.33% 209
UK excluding London +135 232 £60,000 -20.00% 185
Work from Home +80 102 £63,750 -15.00% 123
North of England - 57 £65,000 - 40
Midlands +24 56 £57,000 -5.00% 25
London +16 53 £87,500 -18.60% 55
South East - 52 £56,250 - 52
North West - 32 £60,000 - 23
West Midlands -1 29 £50,000 -16.67% 16
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 9
South West -50 21 £57,500 -36.11% 27
Wales - 19 £60,000 - 6
East of England -3 16 £60,000 -20.00% 25
North East - 15 £65,000 - 11
Scotland +22 10 £60,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 8

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 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.33%) Apache
2 4 (1.33%) Confluence
3 3 (1.00%) SAS
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Simulink
2 2 (0.66%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.33%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (32.23%) AWS
2 90 (29.90%) Azure
3 43 (14.29%) GCP
4 20 (6.64%) GitHub
5 17 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.65%) dbt
6 14 (4.65%) SaaS
6 14 (4.65%) Serverless
7 11 (3.65%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.66%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.32%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.65%) Firewall
3 11 (3.65%) DNS
4 8 (2.66%) Wireless
5 7 (2.33%) LTE
6 6 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.33%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.33%) BGP
7 4 (1.33%) VoIP
7 4 (1.33%) VPN
7 4 (1.33%) VSAT
8 3 (1.00%) WAN
9 2 (0.66%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.66%) 5G
9 2 (0.66%) LAN
10 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.33%) DHCP
10 1 (0.33%) HTTP
10 1 (0.33%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.32%) MongoDB
1 13 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.66%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.66%) MySQL
5 7 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.99%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.66%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.00%) Big Data
9 3 (1.00%) Power BI
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.66%) Redis
10 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (15.61%) Git
2 9 (2.99%) GitLab
3 7 (2.33%) JIRA
3 7 (2.33%) Selenium
4 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.99%) NUnit
5 5 (1.66%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.66%) Mocha
6 4 (1.33%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.66%) CMake
7 2 (0.66%) Postman
7 2 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.33%) GDB
8 1 (0.33%) git-flow
8 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.33%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (13.29%) Finance
4 29 (9.63%) Electronics
5 13 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.99%) Aviation
7 11 (3.65%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.99%) Games
9 6 (1.99%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.66%) Welsh Language
11 4 (1.33%) Local Government
12 3 (1.00%) Advertising
12 3 (1.00%) Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Law
12 3 (1.00%) Military
13 2 (0.66%) Front Office
13 2 (0.66%) Publishing
13 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (26.91%) Senior
2 64 (21.26%) Software Engineer
3 53 (17.61%) Developer
4 31 (10.30%) Lead
5 30 (9.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (8.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (7.97%) Embedded Engineer
8 21 (6.98%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.64%) Python Engineer
10 18 (5.98%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 16 (5.32%) Senior Developer
12 14 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (4.65%) Site Engineer
12 14 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 13 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.99%) Electronics Engineer
15 11 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
16 9 (2.99%) .NET Developer
16 9 (2.99%) Support Engineer
16 9 (2.99%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.28%) .NET
2 28 (9.30%) React
3 22 (7.31%) REST
4 21 (6.98%) .NET Framework
5 18 (5.98%) ASP.NET
5 18 (5.98%) Kafka
6 17 (5.65%) Node.js
7 16 (5.32%) Entity Framework
8 15 (4.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.65%) RESTful
10 9 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (2.99%) Spring
11 8 (2.66%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.66%) PySpark
11 8 (2.66%) React Native
11 8 (2.66%) Vue
11 8 (2.66%) Yocto
12 7 (2.33%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.99%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.95%) Cloud Native
2 43 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.64%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.65%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.66%) IoT
8 7 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.99%) Device Driver
9 6 (1.99%) FPGA
10 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.66%) PCIe
10 5 (1.66%) Verilog
10 5 (1.66%) VHDL
11 4 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.33%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.33%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 53 (17.61%) Linux
2 16 (5.32%) Unix
3 14 (4.65%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.65%) Android
4 11 (3.65%) Windows
5 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (48.50%) CI/CD
2 144 (47.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 133 (44.19%) Software Engineering
4 120 (39.87%) Agile
5 108 (35.88%) DevOps
6 95 (31.56%) Collaborative Culture
7 88 (29.24%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (23.26%) Mentoring
9 69 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 63 (20.93%) Test Automation
11 51 (16.94%) AI
12 50 (16.61%) Observability
13 42 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (13.29%) SDLC
15 38 (12.62%) Clean Code
16 36 (11.96%) Platform Engineering
17 34 (11.30%) Containerisation
18 32 (10.63%) Code Quality
18 32 (10.63%) Microservices
19 31 (10.30%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 103 (34.22%) Python
2 51 (16.94%) SQL
3 47 (15.61%) C#
4 41 (13.62%) Java
5 40 (13.29%) TypeScript
6 36 (11.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (9.63%) C++
8 22 (7.31%) Bash
9 19 (6.31%) C
10 13 (4.32%) PowerShell
11 11 (3.65%) Embedded C
11 11 (3.65%) Go
12 9 (2.99%) PHP
12 9 (2.99%) Scala
13 7 (2.33%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.99%) Embedded C++
14 6 (1.99%) Perl
15 5 (1.66%) Bicep
15 5 (1.66%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.32%) Degree
4 12 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.32%) HNC
6 7 (2.33%) HND
7 6 (1.99%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.00%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.33%) CCIE
12 1 (0.33%) CCNP
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.33%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.33%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.97%) QA
2 12 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.00%) GDPR
3 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 36 (11.96%) Docker
2 11 (3.65%) Firmware
3 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (22.59%) Terraform
2 51 (16.94%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.99%) Grafana
4 11 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.32%) Ansible
6 6 (1.99%) Argo
7 4 (1.33%) Istio
8 3 (1.00%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.00%) Puppet
9 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) linkerd
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (10.30%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.31%) Google
3 14 (4.65%) Databricks
4 9 (2.99%) Cisco
5 6 (1.99%) VMware
6 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.33%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.00%) Dell
8 3 (1.00%) F5
8 3 (1.00%) Infoblox
8 3 (1.00%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.66%) Apple
9 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.66%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.33%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.33%) Arista
10 1 (0.33%) FXall
10 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.33%) Zerto