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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 671 859
Rank change year-on-year +142 +188 -9
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 235 11 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.022% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.025% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 190 11 9
10th Percentile £42,500 - £83,100
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -36.84% +49.02%
75th Percentile £83,438 £87,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -28.95% +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 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
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 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Engineering in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
Top 16 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 18 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 +109 208 £60,000 -11.11% 129
UK excluding London +96 182 £60,000 -11.11% 111
Work from Home +67 75 £58,750 -21.67% 78
Midlands +14 47 £54,000 -10.00% 17
North of England - 43 £65,000 - 27
South East - 39 £57,500 - 35
London +14 37 £87,500 -18.60% 41
North West - 27 £55,000 - 14
West Midlands +4 26 £50,000 -16.67% 9
East Midlands - 21 £60,000 - 8
South West -42 17 £56,250 -37.50% 13
Wales - 15 £57,500 - 5
East of England +2 14 £60,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 6
Scotland +19 7 £60,000 +60.00% 6
North East - 5 £65,000 - 7

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 4 (1.70%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.70%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) Apache
2 3 (1.28%) SAS
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (30.21%) AWS
2 68 (28.94%) Azure
3 27 (11.49%) GCP
4 13 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.53%) GitHub
4 13 (5.53%) SaaS
5 11 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (3.40%) Serverless
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (2.13%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.70%) dbt
10 4 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.70%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.28%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.11%) Firewall
2 10 (4.26%) DNS
3 5 (2.13%) LTE
4 4 (1.70%) VPN
4 4 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.70%) Wireless
5 3 (1.28%) BGP
6 2 (0.85%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.85%) VoIP
6 2 (0.85%) VSAT
6 2 (0.85%) WAN
7 1 (0.43%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.43%) DHCP
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) NFC
7 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.11%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (3.40%) MySQL
5 7 (2.98%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.55%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.28%) Power BI
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.85%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.85%) Redis
9 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.43%) Big Data
10 1 (0.43%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 35 (14.89%) Git
2 9 (3.83%) GitLab
3 7 (2.98%) JIRA
4 4 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.70%) Selenium
5 3 (1.28%) NUnit
5 3 (1.28%) Postman
6 2 (0.85%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.85%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.85%) Mocha
6 2 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.43%) CMake
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) git-flow
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.43%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (13.19%) Finance
4 19 (8.09%) Electronics
5 12 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.26%) Aviation
7 8 (3.40%) Games
8 7 (2.98%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.70%) Local Government
9 4 (1.70%) Welsh Language
10 3 (1.28%) Advertising
10 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Law
10 3 (1.28%) Military
11 2 (0.85%) Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (22.98%) Senior
2 50 (21.28%) Software Engineer
3 45 (19.15%) Developer
4 26 (11.06%) Lead
5 21 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (8.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (7.66%) Embedded Engineer
8 17 (7.23%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 14 (5.96%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (5.53%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (4.26%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Electronics Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Technical Engineer
13 9 (3.83%) Technical Support
13 9 (3.83%) Technical Support Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) .NET Developer
14 8 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.72%) .NET
2 25 (10.64%) React
3 20 (8.51%) .NET Framework
4 18 (7.66%) ASP.NET
5 16 (6.81%) Entity Framework
5 16 (6.81%) Kafka
6 15 (6.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 14 (5.96%) Node.js
7 14 (5.96%) REST
8 11 (4.68%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.83%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (3.83%) Spring
10 8 (3.40%) Vue
11 7 (2.98%) PySpark
11 7 (2.98%) React Native
11 7 (2.98%) RESTful
11 7 (2.98%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.13%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.13%) Yocto
13 4 (1.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.91%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.66%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.68%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.98%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.13%) FPGA
9 5 (2.13%) IoT
9 5 (2.13%) PCIe
9 5 (2.13%) Verilog
9 5 (2.13%) VHDL
10 4 (1.70%) Device Driver
10 4 (1.70%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.34%) Linux
2 10 (4.26%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (3.83%) Android
4 7 (2.98%) Windows
5 5 (2.13%) Unix
6 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (46.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 106 (45.11%) CI/CD
3 98 (41.70%) Agile
4 97 (41.28%) Software Engineering
5 83 (35.32%) DevOps
6 72 (30.64%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (26.81%) Collaborative Culture
8 47 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (19.57%) Test Automation
10 45 (19.15%) AI
11 44 (18.72%) Mentoring
12 33 (14.04%) Observability
13 31 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (12.34%) SDLC
15 28 (11.91%) Containerisation
15 28 (11.91%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (11.49%) Microservices
16 27 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
17 25 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
18 23 (9.79%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (30.64%) Python
2 44 (18.72%) SQL
3 42 (17.87%) C#
4 36 (15.32%) Java
4 36 (15.32%) TypeScript
5 32 (13.62%) JavaScript
6 23 (9.79%) C++
7 15 (6.38%) Bash
8 13 (5.53%) C
9 9 (3.83%) Embedded C
9 9 (3.83%) Go
9 9 (3.83%) PHP
9 9 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.40%) Scala
11 5 (2.13%) Bicep
11 5 (2.13%) Embedded C++
11 5 (2.13%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.13%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.70%) Perl
13 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.11%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.40%) Degree
5 5 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.85%) HNC
8 2 (0.85%) HND
9 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.94%) QA
2 11 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (11.06%) Docker
2 9 (3.83%) Firmware
3 4 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.28%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (20.43%) Terraform
2 41 (17.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.26%) Grafana
3 10 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.40%) Ansible
5 6 (2.55%) Argo
6 4 (1.70%) Istio
7 3 (1.28%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.28%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 26 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.26%) Databricks
3 7 (2.98%) Google
4 6 (2.55%) Cisco
5 4 (1.70%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.70%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.70%) VMware
6 3 (1.28%) Dell
6 3 (1.28%) F5
6 3 (1.28%) Infoblox
6 3 (1.28%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.85%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.43%) Apple
8 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.43%) FXall
8 1 (0.43%) IBM
8 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) Sophos