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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 675 830
Rank change year-on-year +185 +155 -13
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 305 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.024% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.027% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 252 12 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -28.95% +49.02%
75th Percentile £79,850 £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 76,271 44,428 67,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.49% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 52,568 25,332 44,788
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 2 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 2 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 +167 270 £65,000 -13.33% 218
UK excluding London +147 234 £60,000 -20.00% 189
Work from Home +79 104 £63,750 -15.00% 121
North of England - 59 £65,000 - 43
Midlands +26 56 £57,000 -5.00% 25
London +15 55 £87,500 -18.60% 58
South East - 52 £56,250 - 52
North West - 33 £57,500 - 27
West Midlands -9 29 £50,000 -16.67% 16
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 9
South West -45 21 £57,500 -36.11% 31
Wales - 19 £60,000 - 5
East of England -9 16 £60,000 -20.00% 24
North East - 16 £65,000 - 10
Scotland +16 10 £60,000 +60.00% 10
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 6
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 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.31%) Apache
2 4 (1.31%) Confluence
3 3 (0.98%) SAS
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Simulink
2 2 (0.66%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.33%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (32.13%) AWS
2 92 (30.16%) Azure
3 44 (14.43%) GCP
4 20 (6.56%) GitHub
5 18 (5.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.92%) dbt
7 14 (4.59%) SaaS
7 14 (4.59%) Serverless
8 11 (3.61%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.62%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.57%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.59%) Firewall
3 11 (3.61%) DNS
4 8 (2.62%) Wireless
5 7 (2.30%) LTE
6 6 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.31%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.31%) BGP
7 4 (1.31%) VoIP
7 4 (1.31%) VPN
7 4 (1.31%) VSAT
8 3 (0.98%) WAN
9 2 (0.66%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.66%) 5G
9 2 (0.66%) LAN
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.33%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.33%) VLAN
10 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.26%) MongoDB
1 13 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.62%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.62%) MySQL
5 7 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.64%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.98%) Big Data
9 3 (0.98%) Power BI
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.66%) Redis
10 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (15.41%) Git
2 9 (2.95%) GitLab
3 7 (2.30%) JIRA
3 7 (2.30%) Selenium
4 6 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.97%) NUnit
5 5 (1.64%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.64%) Mocha
6 4 (1.31%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.66%) CMake
7 2 (0.66%) Postman
7 2 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.33%) GDB
8 1 (0.33%) git-flow
8 1 (0.33%) JUnit
8 1 (0.33%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (13.11%) Finance
4 29 (9.51%) Electronics
5 13 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.93%) Aviation
7 11 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.95%) Games
9 6 (1.97%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.64%) Welsh Language
11 4 (1.31%) Local Government
12 3 (0.98%) Advertising
12 3 (0.98%) Banking
12 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Law
12 3 (0.98%) Military
13 2 (0.66%) Publishing
13 2 (0.66%) Retail
13 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (26.89%) Senior
2 64 (20.98%) Software Engineer
3 54 (17.70%) Developer
4 31 (10.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (10.16%) Lead
5 26 (8.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (7.87%) Embedded Engineer
7 21 (6.89%) Data Engineer
7 21 (6.89%) Python Engineer
8 18 (5.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 16 (5.25%) Senior Developer
10 15 (4.92%) Site Engineer
10 15 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.93%) Electronics Engineer
14 11 (3.61%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (2.95%) Technical Engineer
15 9 (2.95%) Technical Support
15 9 (2.95%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.07%) .NET
2 28 (9.18%) React
3 22 (7.21%) REST
4 21 (6.89%) .NET Framework
5 18 (5.90%) ASP.NET
5 18 (5.90%) Kafka
6 17 (5.57%) Node.js
7 16 (5.25%) Entity Framework
8 15 (4.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (3.61%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.61%) RESTful
10 9 (2.95%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (2.95%) Spring
11 8 (2.62%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.62%) PySpark
11 8 (2.62%) React Native
11 8 (2.62%) Vue
11 8 (2.62%) Yocto
12 7 (2.30%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.97%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.74%) Cloud Native
2 44 (14.43%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.56%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.59%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.62%) IoT
9 7 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.97%) Device Driver
10 6 (1.97%) FPGA
11 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.64%) PCIe
11 5 (1.64%) Verilog
11 5 (1.64%) VHDL
12 4 (1.31%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.31%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.31%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 54 (17.70%) Linux
2 17 (5.57%) Unix
3 14 (4.59%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.61%) Android
4 11 (3.61%) Windows
5 7 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (48.52%) CI/CD
2 147 (48.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 135 (44.26%) Software Engineering
4 121 (39.67%) Agile
5 111 (36.39%) DevOps
6 96 (31.48%) Collaborative Culture
7 88 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (23.28%) Mentoring
9 70 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 64 (20.98%) Test Automation
11 51 (16.72%) AI
11 51 (16.72%) Observability
12 42 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (13.44%) SDLC
14 39 (12.79%) Clean Code
15 37 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
16 34 (11.15%) Containerisation
17 32 (10.49%) Code Quality
17 32 (10.49%) Microservices
18 31 (10.16%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 104 (34.10%) Python
2 51 (16.72%) SQL
3 47 (15.41%) C#
4 41 (13.44%) Java
5 40 (13.11%) TypeScript
6 36 (11.80%) JavaScript
7 29 (9.51%) C++
8 22 (7.21%) Bash
9 19 (6.23%) C
10 13 (4.26%) PowerShell
11 11 (3.61%) Embedded C
11 11 (3.61%) Go
12 10 (3.28%) Scala
13 9 (2.95%) PHP
14 7 (2.30%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.97%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.97%) Perl
16 5 (1.64%) Bicep
16 5 (1.64%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 72 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.26%) Degree
4 12 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.28%) HNC
6 7 (2.30%) HND
7 6 (1.97%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.33%) CCIE
12 1 (0.33%) CCNP
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.33%) City & Guilds
12 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.33%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.20%) QA
2 12 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.98%) GDPR
3 3 (0.98%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 36 (11.80%) Docker
2 11 (3.61%) Firmware
3 5 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (22.62%) Terraform
2 51 (16.72%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.93%) Grafana
4 11 (3.61%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.28%) Ansible
6 6 (1.97%) Argo
7 4 (1.31%) Istio
8 3 (0.98%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.98%) Puppet
9 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) linkerd
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.56%) Google
3 14 (4.59%) Databricks
4 9 (2.95%) Cisco
5 6 (1.97%) VMware
6 5 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.31%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.98%) Dell
8 3 (0.98%) F5
8 3 (0.98%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.98%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.66%) Apple
9 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.66%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.33%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.33%) Arista
10 1 (0.33%) FXall
10 1 (0.33%) New Relic
10 1 (0.33%) OpenAI