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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 676 790
Rank change year-on-year +201 +114 +7
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 335 13 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.026% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.029% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 272 12 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,188 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £67,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -28.95% +49.02%
75th Percentile £79,013 £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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 16 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 16 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 +177 300 £65,000 -13.33% 221
UK excluding London +136 256 £60,000 -20.00% 172
Work from Home +80 112 £65,000 -13.33% 122
London +12 64 £87,500 -23.08% 81
North of England +8 64 £65,000 -13.33% 33
South East - 61 £55,000 - 54
Midlands +31 58 £54,000 -10.00% 22
North West - 34 £65,000 - 17
West Midlands +2 31 £50,000 -16.67% 13
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 9
South West -52 25 £62,500 -30.56% 18
North East -44 20 £65,000 -13.33% 9
Wales - 20 £62,500 - 3
East of England -13 19 £60,000 -20.00% 29
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 7
Scotland +11 9 £60,000 +60.00% 15
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 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.19%) Apache
2 4 (1.19%) Confluence
3 3 (0.90%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Simulink
2 2 (0.60%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.30%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.24%) AWS
2 99 (29.55%) Azure
3 49 (14.63%) GCP
4 22 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.57%) GitHub
5 20 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.07%) dbt
7 14 (4.18%) Serverless
8 12 (3.58%) SaaS
9 11 (3.28%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.69%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.79%) Datadog
14 6 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.67%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.48%) Firewall
3 11 (3.28%) DNS
4 9 (2.69%) Wireless
5 8 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.79%) LTE
7 5 (1.49%) BGP
7 5 (1.49%) VPN
8 4 (1.19%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.19%) VoIP
8 4 (1.19%) VSAT
8 4 (1.19%) WAN
9 3 (0.90%) LAN
10 2 (0.60%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.60%) 5G
10 2 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.60%) OSPF
10 2 (0.60%) VLAN
10 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
11 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.88%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.69%) MySQL
5 9 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.39%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.79%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.49%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.90%) Big Data
11 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.60%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.60%) Power BI
11 2 (0.60%) Redis
11 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (14.33%) Git
2 9 (2.69%) GitLab
3 7 (2.09%) JIRA
3 7 (2.09%) Selenium
4 6 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.79%) NUnit
5 5 (1.49%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.49%) Mocha
6 4 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.60%) CMake
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) GDB
8 1 (0.30%) git-flow
8 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.30%) Postman
8 1 (0.30%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (36.12%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (12.54%) Finance
4 38 (11.34%) Electronics
5 19 (5.67%) Manufacturing
6 16 (4.78%) Aviation
7 13 (3.88%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.69%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.69%) Games
9 5 (1.49%) Automotive
9 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.49%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.19%) Banking
10 4 (1.19%) Law
10 4 (1.19%) Local Government
11 3 (0.90%) Advertising
11 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 88 (26.27%) Senior
2 68 (20.30%) Software Engineer
3 60 (17.91%) Developer
4 34 (10.15%) Lead
5 32 (9.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (8.66%) Embedded Engineer
7 26 (7.76%) Python Engineer
7 26 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (6.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 21 (6.27%) Data Engineer
10 19 (5.67%) Electronics Engineer
10 19 (5.67%) Site Engineer
10 19 (5.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (5.07%) Senior Developer
12 14 (4.18%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (2.69%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (2.69%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.33%) .NET
2 28 (8.36%) React
3 22 (6.57%) REST
4 21 (6.27%) .NET Framework
5 19 (5.67%) Kafka
6 18 (5.37%) ASP.NET
7 17 (5.07%) Node.js
8 16 (4.78%) Entity Framework
9 15 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
10 12 (3.58%) RESTful
11 11 (3.28%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.69%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.69%) Spring
13 8 (2.39%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.39%) Playwright
13 8 (2.39%) PySpark
13 8 (2.39%) React Native
13 8 (2.39%) Vue
13 8 (2.39%) Yocto
14 7 (2.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 50 (14.93%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.97%) Mobile App
4 18 (5.37%) Embedded Systems
5 15 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.39%) IoT
9 7 (2.09%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.09%) Analogue Electronics
9 7 (2.09%) FPGA
10 6 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.79%) Device Driver
11 5 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.49%) PCIe
11 5 (1.49%) Verilog
11 5 (1.49%) VHDL
12 4 (1.19%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 60 (17.91%) Linux
2 19 (5.67%) Unix
3 14 (4.18%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.28%) Android
4 11 (3.28%) Windows
5 7 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (48.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 156 (46.57%) CI/CD
3 149 (44.48%) Software Engineering
4 125 (37.31%) Agile
5 117 (34.93%) DevOps
6 106 (31.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 94 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 79 (23.58%) Mentoring
10 67 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 58 (17.31%) Observability
12 52 (15.52%) AI
13 47 (14.03%) Technical Leadership
14 44 (13.13%) SDLC
15 41 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (11.94%) Clean Code
17 38 (11.34%) Containerisation
18 37 (11.04%) Code Quality
19 36 (10.75%) Software Architecture
20 33 (9.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 109 (32.54%) Python
2 54 (16.12%) SQL
3 48 (14.33%) C#
4 42 (12.54%) Java
5 40 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 38 (11.34%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.66%) C++
8 24 (7.16%) Bash
9 20 (5.97%) C
10 16 (4.78%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.48%) Scala
12 12 (3.58%) Go
13 11 (3.28%) Embedded C
14 9 (2.69%) PHP
15 7 (2.09%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.79%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.79%) Perl
17 5 (1.49%) MATLAB
18 4 (1.19%) Bicep
19 2 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.03%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.07%) Degree
4 13 (3.88%) HNC
5 12 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) HND
7 8 (2.39%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.60%) City & Guilds
12 2 (0.60%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.30%) CCIE
13 1 (0.30%) CCNP
13 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.66%) QA
2 12 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.19%) GDPR
4 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 38 (11.34%) Docker
2 15 (4.48%) Firmware
3 5 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (22.99%) Terraform
2 55 (16.42%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.18%) Ansible
3 14 (4.18%) Grafana
4 11 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.79%) Argo
6 4 (1.19%) Istio
7 3 (0.90%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.90%) Puppet
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.30%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.30%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.57%) Google
3 15 (4.48%) Databricks
4 10 (2.99%) Cisco
5 7 (2.09%) VMware
6 5 (1.49%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.19%) EMC
8 3 (0.90%) Dell
8 3 (0.90%) F5
8 3 (0.90%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.90%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.60%) Apple
9 2 (0.60%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.30%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Sophos
10 1 (0.30%) Veeam