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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 639 764
Rank change year-on-year +174 +125 -24
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 383 21 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.043% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.048% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 298 16 2
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 -
25th Percentile £51,000 £50,438 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 86,023 43,711 61,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 89.05% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,242 24,267 33,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,880 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 29 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 29 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 +149 338 £65,000 -13.33% 229
UK excluding London +131 297 £60,000 -20.00% 175
Work from Home +76 123 £65,000 -13.33% 131
North of England +6 80 £65,000 -13.33% 52
London -5 68 £87,500 -15.66% 81
South East +16 66 £55,000 -38.89% 28
Midlands +6 60 £60,000 - 23
North West - 41 £65,000 - 39
South West -50 33 £67,500 -18.18% 13
East Midlands - 31 £60,000 - 7
West Midlands -17 29 £50,000 -16.67% 16
North East -42 28 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Wales - 28 £57,500 - 5
East of England -13 20 £60,000 -20.00% 29
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 10
Scotland +21 10 £71,991 +91.98% 20
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 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 7 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.31%) Apache
3 3 (0.78%) SAS
4 2 (0.52%) CMS
4 2 (0.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Simulink
2 3 (0.78%) 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
1 115 (30.03%) AWS
2 109 (28.46%) Azure
3 54 (14.10%) GCP
4 28 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (6.01%) GitHub
6 21 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (5.22%) Serverless
8 17 (4.44%) dbt
9 15 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.13%) SaaS
12 11 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.35%) Snowflake
15 8 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (1.83%) Azure AKS
16 7 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (1.57%) Azure Functions
17 6 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.22%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.18%) Firewall
3 14 (3.66%) DNS
4 13 (3.39%) Wireless
5 12 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.09%) LTE
6 8 (2.09%) VPN
7 7 (1.83%) BGP
8 4 (1.04%) 5G
8 4 (1.04%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.04%) VoIP
8 4 (1.04%) VSAT
9 3 (0.78%) 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 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.18%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.35%) MySQL
6 8 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.09%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.31%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.52%) Big Data
11 2 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.52%) Power BI
11 2 (0.52%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 51 (13.32%) Git
2 11 (2.87%) GitLab
3 7 (1.83%) 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 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.78%) 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
1 146 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (12.79%) Finance
4 44 (11.49%) Electronics
5 26 (6.79%) Manufacturing
6 19 (4.96%) Aviation
7 12 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.87%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.09%) Automotive
10 7 (1.83%) Games
10 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.31%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.04%) Banking
12 4 (1.04%) Front Office
12 4 (1.04%) Law
13 3 (0.78%) Advertising
13 3 (0.78%) Military
13 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (28.72%) Senior
2 84 (21.93%) Software Engineer
3 52 (13.58%) Developer
4 38 (9.92%) Embedded Engineer
5 34 (8.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (8.36%) Lead
6 32 (8.36%) Senior Software Engineer
7 28 (7.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 27 (7.05%) Electronics Engineer
8 27 (7.05%) Python Engineer
9 24 (6.27%) Data Engineer
10 21 (5.48%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.96%) Site Engineer
11 19 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (3.39%) Design Engineer
14 13 (3.39%) Support Engineer
15 12 (3.13%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 11 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (22.72%) Terraform
2 48 (12.53%) .NET
3 34 (8.88%) React
4 28 (7.31%) REST
5 22 (5.74%) Kafka
6 20 (5.22%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.92%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.92%) Node.js
8 14 (3.66%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (3.39%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.39%) RESTful
10 12 (3.13%) Spring
10 12 (3.13%) Yocto
11 9 (2.35%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.35%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (2.35%) PySpark
11 9 (2.35%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.09%) NestJS
13 7 (1.83%) HTML
13 7 (1.83%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.36%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.84%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.27%) Embedded Systems
4 17 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.13%) Analogue Electronics
6 11 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.87%) IoT
6 11 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.35%) Device Driver
8 9 (2.35%) FPGA
8 9 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.31%) PCIe
11 5 (1.31%) Verilog
11 5 (1.31%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.49%) Linux
2 19 (4.96%) Embedded Linux
2 19 (4.96%) Unix
3 14 (3.66%) Windows
4 10 (2.61%) Android
5 6 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.52%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (47.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 172 (44.91%) Software Engineering
3 170 (44.39%) CI/CD
4 133 (34.73%) Agile
5 128 (33.42%) DevOps
6 125 (32.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 116 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (24.02%) Mentoring
9 90 (23.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (19.58%) Test Automation
11 64 (16.71%) Observability
12 63 (16.45%) AI
13 49 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
14 48 (12.53%) SDLC
15 46 (12.01%) Code Quality
15 46 (12.01%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (11.23%) Containerisation
17 40 (10.44%) Clean Code
18 38 (9.92%) Microservices
19 36 (9.40%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 115 (30.03%) Python
2 57 (14.88%) SQL
3 52 (13.58%) C#
4 45 (11.75%) Java
5 42 (10.97%) TypeScript
6 36 (9.40%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.83%) C++
8 27 (7.05%) C
9 26 (6.79%) Bash
10 24 (6.27%) PowerShell
11 15 (3.92%) Embedded C
11 15 (3.92%) Scala
12 14 (3.66%) Go
13 9 (2.35%) PHP
14 7 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.83%) Perl
15 6 (1.57%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.57%) MATLAB
16 5 (1.31%) Rust
17 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.01%) Degree
4 18 (4.70%) HNC
5 15 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.39%) HND
7 8 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.78%) 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 (8.88%) QA
2 13 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.04%) GDPR
4 4 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.78%) 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 52 (13.58%) Docker
2 17 (4.44%) Firmware
3 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.31%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.92%) Ansible
3 14 (3.66%) Grafana
4 11 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.57%) Argo
6 4 (1.04%) Istio
7 3 (0.78%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.78%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Kibana
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%) linkerd
Vendors
1 40 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.74%) Google
3 15 (3.92%) Databricks
4 11 (2.87%) Cisco
5 10 (2.61%) 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 (1.04%) 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