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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 453 | 650 | 752 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +197 | +102 | -19 |
| Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering | 413 | 19 | 3 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.35% | 0.039% | 0.004% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | 0.47% | 0.044% | 0.005% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 318 | 14 | 3 |
| 10th Percentile | £41,175 | £36,750 | £90,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £51,000 | £58,438 | £95,625 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £65,000 | £75,000 | £110,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -13.33% | -31.82% | -13.73% |
| 75th Percentile | £78,750 | £89,063 | £115,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £105,500 | - |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £60,000 | £75,000 | £87,500 |
| % change year-on-year | -20.00% | -14.29% | +105.88% |
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.
| 6 months to 16 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 87,497 | 43,445 | 57,940 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 73.45% | 88.84% | 82.20% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 59,802 | 24,607 | 31,056 |
| 10th Percentile | £31,250 | £28,250 | £33,099 |
| 25th Percentile | £41,250 | £36,250 | £44,541 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £60,000 | £55,000 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +9.09% | -8.33% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £78,000 | £75,000 | £78,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £95,000 | £97,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £55,000 | £47,000 | £53,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +17.02% | -11.32% | -1.85% |
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 Salary Trend
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 16 October 2026.
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 16 October 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 | +174 | 364 | £65,000 | -13.33% | 175 |
| UK excluding London | +140 | 326 | £60,000 | -20.00% | 121 |
| Work from Home | +83 | 132 | £67,500 | -10.00% | 99 |
| North of England | +18 | 86 | £65,000 | -13.33% | 33 |
| South East | +14 | 70 | £55,000 | -38.89% | 33 |
| London | -14 | 70 | £87,500 | -12.50% | 59 |
| Midlands | +12 | 59 | £60,000 | - | 11 |
| North West | - | 46 | £65,000 | - | 19 |
| South West | -28 | 42 | £75,000 | -9.09% | 9 |
| East Midlands | - | 34 | £60,000 | - | 2 |
| North East | -44 | 29 | £65,000 | -13.33% | 3 |
| Wales | - | 29 | £57,500 | - | 2 |
| East of England | -21 | 28 | £60,000 | -20.00% | 25 |
| West Midlands | -20 | 25 | £50,000 | -16.67% | 9 |
| Scotland | +15 | 12 | £71,991 | +91.98% | 8 |
| Yorkshire | - | 11 | £90,000 | - | 11 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 1 | £71,991 | - | 2 |
Collaborative Engineering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Processes & Methodologies
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Continuous Improvement | 45.5% | 188 |
| 1 | Software Engineering | 45.5% | 188 |
| 3 | CI/CD | 41.6% | 172 |
| 4 | DevOps | 32.9% | 136 |
| 5 | Collaborative Culture | 31.5% | 130 |
| 6 | Agile | 31.0% | 128 |
| 7 | Problem-Solving | 29.1% | 120 |
| 8 | Mentoring | 23.0% | 95 |
| 9 | Infrastructure as Code | 22.3% | 92 |
| 10 | Test Automation | 18.6% | 77 |
| 11 | AI | 15.0% | 62 |
| 12 | Observability | 14.8% | 61 |
| 13 | Technical Leadership | 12.6% | 52 |
| 14 | SDLC | 12.1% | 50 |
| 15 | Code Quality | 11.1% | 46 |
| 16 | Platform Engineering | 10.9% | 45 |
| 17 | Containerisation | 10.7% | 44 |
| 18 | Clean Code | 10.4% | 43 |
| 19 | Microservices | 9.4% | 39 |
| 20 | Root Cause Analysis | 8.7% | 36 |