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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 642 782
Rank change year-on-year +168 +140 -56
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 381 22 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.044% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.050% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 298 17 3
10th Percentile £41,775 - £57,400
25th Percentile £51,000 £36,750 £75,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% +14.29%
75th Percentile £78,438 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,500 -
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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
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% -2.78%

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 26 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 26 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 +157 336 £65,000 -13.33% 243
UK excluding London +109 294 £60,000 -20.00% 185
Work from Home +71 124 £65,000 -13.33% 136
North of England +17 78 £65,000 -13.33% 49
London -3 69 £87,500 -15.66% 88
South East +28 65 £55,000 -38.89% 36
Midlands +10 60 £60,000 - 24
North West - 39 £65,000 - 34
South West -45 33 £67,500 -18.18% 11
East Midlands - 31 £60,000 - 8
West Midlands -10 29 £50,000 -16.67% 16
North East -36 28 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Wales - 28 £57,500 - 5
East of England -11 20 £60,000 -20.00% 32
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 12
Scotland +19 10 £71,991 +91.98% 20
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 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.31%) Apache
3 3 (0.79%) SAS
4 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.26%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Simulink
2 3 (0.79%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Civil 3D
4 1 (0.26%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (29.92%) AWS
2 109 (28.61%) Azure
3 53 (13.91%) GCP
4 28 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.30%) GitHub
6 21 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (4.99%) Serverless
8 17 (4.46%) dbt
9 14 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.15%) SaaS
12 11 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.36%) Snowflake
15 8 (2.10%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (1.84%) Azure AKS
16 7 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.25%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.20%) Firewall
3 14 (3.67%) DNS
4 13 (3.41%) Wireless
5 12 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.10%) LTE
6 8 (2.10%) VPN
7 7 (1.84%) BGP
8 4 (1.05%) 5G
8 4 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.05%) VoIP
8 4 (1.05%) VSAT
9 3 (0.79%) WAN
10 2 (0.52%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.52%) DHCP
10 2 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.52%) LAN
10 2 (0.52%) OSPF
10 2 (0.52%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.52%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.20%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.36%) MySQL
6 8 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.10%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.31%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.52%) Big Data
11 2 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.52%) Power BI
11 2 (0.52%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (13.39%) Git
2 11 (2.89%) GitLab
3 7 (1.84%) JIRA
4 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.57%) Selenium
5 5 (1.31%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.31%) Mocha
5 5 (1.31%) NUnit
6 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.52%) CMake
8 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) GDB
9 1 (0.26%) git-flow
9 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 144 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (12.60%) Finance
4 44 (11.55%) Electronics
5 26 (6.82%) Manufacturing
6 19 (4.99%) Aviation
7 13 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.89%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.10%) Automotive
10 7 (1.84%) Games
10 7 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.31%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.05%) Banking
12 4 (1.05%) Front Office
12 4 (1.05%) Law
13 3 (0.79%) Advertising
13 3 (0.79%) Military
13 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (28.35%) Senior
2 81 (21.26%) Software Engineer
3 53 (13.91%) Developer
4 37 (9.71%) Embedded Engineer
5 34 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (8.40%) Lead
7 30 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (7.09%) Electronics Engineer
8 27 (7.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 26 (6.82%) Python Engineer
10 23 (6.04%) Data Engineer
11 21 (5.51%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.99%) Site Engineer
12 19 (4.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
15 13 (3.41%) Design Engineer
15 13 (3.41%) Support Engineer
16 12 (3.15%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 11 (2.89%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (22.83%) Terraform
2 48 (12.60%) .NET
3 33 (8.66%) React
4 27 (7.09%) REST
5 22 (5.77%) Kafka
6 20 (5.25%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.94%) ASP.NET
8 14 (3.67%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (3.41%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.41%) Node.js
9 13 (3.41%) RESTful
9 13 (3.41%) Spring
10 12 (3.15%) Yocto
11 11 (2.89%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.36%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.36%) PySpark
12 9 (2.36%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.84%) CSS
13 7 (1.84%) HTML
13 7 (1.84%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.30%) Embedded Systems
4 17 (4.46%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.15%) Analogue Electronics
5 12 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.89%) IoT
7 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.36%) Device Driver
8 9 (2.36%) FPGA
8 9 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.31%) PCIe
11 5 (1.31%) Verilog
11 5 (1.31%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.59%) Linux
2 19 (4.99%) Embedded Linux
2 19 (4.99%) Unix
3 14 (3.67%) Windows
4 10 (2.62%) Android
5 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.52%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (47.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 169 (44.36%) CI/CD
2 169 (44.36%) Software Engineering
3 135 (35.43%) Agile
4 130 (34.12%) DevOps
5 124 (32.55%) Collaborative Culture
6 116 (30.45%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (23.88%) Mentoring
8 89 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 74 (19.42%) Test Automation
10 64 (16.80%) Observability
11 61 (16.01%) AI
12 49 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
13 48 (12.60%) SDLC
14 46 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
15 44 (11.55%) Code Quality
15 44 (11.55%) Containerisation
16 40 (10.50%) Clean Code
17 37 (9.71%) Microservices
18 36 (9.45%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 114 (29.92%) Python
2 57 (14.96%) SQL
3 52 (13.65%) C#
4 47 (12.34%) Java
5 41 (10.76%) TypeScript
6 37 (9.71%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.87%) C++
8 27 (7.09%) C
9 26 (6.82%) Bash
10 24 (6.30%) PowerShell
11 15 (3.94%) Embedded C
11 15 (3.94%) Scala
12 14 (3.67%) Go
13 9 (2.36%) PHP
14 7 (1.84%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.84%) Perl
15 6 (1.57%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.57%) MATLAB
16 5 (1.31%) Rust
17 4 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 90 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.04%) Degree
4 18 (4.72%) HNC
5 14 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.41%) HND
7 8 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.52%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.52%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.26%) CCIE
12 1 (0.26%) CCNP
12 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.92%) QA
2 12 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.05%) GDPR
4 4 (1.05%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.26%) ECSS
6 1 (0.26%) GAMP
6 1 (0.26%) GMP
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.26%) JTAG
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (13.12%) Docker
2 17 (4.46%) Firmware
3 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.31%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.94%) Ansible
3 14 (3.67%) Grafana
4 11 (2.89%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.57%) Argo
6 4 (1.05%) Istio
7 3 (0.79%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.79%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.26%) Kibana
9 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 39 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.77%) Google
3 15 (3.94%) Databricks
4 11 (2.89%) Cisco
5 10 (2.62%) VMware
6 6 (1.57%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.31%) Dell
7 5 (1.31%) EMC
7 5 (1.31%) F5
7 5 (1.31%) Infoblox
7 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.05%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.52%) Apple
9 2 (0.52%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.26%) Arista
10 1 (0.26%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.26%) IBM
10 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle
10 1 (0.26%) Siemens