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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 667 805
Rank change year-on-year +193 +138 -24
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 337 14 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.028% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.031% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 273 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 £79,800 £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% +65.22%

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 79,395 44,536 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.97% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 54,920 25,310 42,355
10th Percentile £31,000 £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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 24 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 24 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 +175 301 £65,000 -13.33% 157
UK excluding London +132 254 £60,000 -20.00% 132
Work from Home +82 115 £65,000 -13.33% 69
London +25 66 £87,500 -23.08% 42
North of England +23 63 £65,000 -13.33% 33
South East - 61 £55,000 - 36
Midlands +18 58 £54,000 -10.00% 19
North West - 33 £65,000 - 16
West Midlands +12 31 £50,000 -16.67% 9
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 10
South West -44 25 £62,500 -30.56% 16
Wales - 21 £60,000 - 2
North East -36 20 £65,000 -13.33% 9
East of England -12 17 £60,000 -20.00% 24
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 8
Scotland +16 9 £60,000 +60.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 1

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 6 (1.78%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.19%) Apache
3 3 (0.89%) Confluence
3 3 (0.89%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Simulink
2 2 (0.59%) 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
1 110 (32.64%) AWS
2 99 (29.38%) Azure
3 50 (14.84%) GCP
4 23 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (6.82%) GitHub
5 20 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.04%) dbt
7 14 (4.15%) Serverless
8 12 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (3.56%) SaaS
9 11 (3.26%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.78%) Datadog
14 6 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.93%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.15%) Firewall
3 12 (3.56%) DNS
4 10 (2.97%) Wireless
5 9 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.37%) LTE
7 6 (1.78%) VPN
8 5 (1.48%) BGP
9 4 (1.19%) 5G
9 4 (1.19%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.19%) VoIP
9 4 (1.19%) VSAT
10 3 (0.89%) WAN
11 2 (0.59%) 3GPP
11 2 (0.59%) DHCP
11 2 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.59%) LAN
11 2 (0.59%) OSPF
11 2 (0.59%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.59%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.86%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.67%) MySQL
6 8 (2.37%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.78%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.48%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.59%) Big Data
12 2 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.59%) Power BI
12 2 (0.59%) Redis
12 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (14.24%) Git
2 9 (2.67%) GitLab
3 7 (2.08%) JIRA
3 7 (2.08%) Selenium
4 6 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.48%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.48%) Mocha
5 5 (1.48%) NUnit
6 4 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.59%) CMake
8 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
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
1 122 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (12.76%) Finance
4 38 (11.28%) Electronics
5 18 (5.34%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.04%) Aviation
7 13 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.67%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.67%) Games
9 5 (1.48%) Automotive
9 5 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.48%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.19%) Banking
10 4 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Law
10 4 (1.19%) Local Government
11 3 (0.89%) Advertising
11 3 (0.89%) Front Office
11 3 (0.89%) Military
11 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (26.71%) Senior
2 70 (20.77%) Software Engineer
3 59 (17.51%) Developer
4 34 (10.09%) Lead
5 32 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (9.20%) Embedded Engineer
7 26 (7.72%) Python Engineer
7 26 (7.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (7.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 20 (5.93%) Data Engineer
10 19 (5.64%) Electronics Engineer
10 19 (5.64%) Site Engineer
10 19 (5.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 18 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.86%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (2.97%) Support Engineer
15 9 (2.67%) Technical Support
15 9 (2.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (23.44%) Terraform
2 47 (13.95%) .NET
3 27 (8.01%) React
4 23 (6.82%) REST
5 21 (6.23%) .NET Framework
6 20 (5.93%) Kafka
7 18 (5.34%) ASP.NET
8 16 (4.75%) Entity Framework
8 16 (4.75%) Node.js
9 15 (4.45%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (3.86%) RESTful
11 11 (3.26%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.67%) Spring
12 9 (2.67%) Yocto
13 8 (2.37%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.37%) Playwright
13 8 (2.37%) PySpark
13 8 (2.37%) Vue
14 7 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (15.43%) Cloud Native
1 52 (15.43%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (5.93%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (5.93%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.37%) IoT
7 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.08%) Analogue Electronics
7 7 (2.08%) FPGA
8 6 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.78%) Device Driver
8 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.48%) PCIe
9 5 (1.48%) Verilog
9 5 (1.48%) VHDL
10 4 (1.19%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 63 (18.69%) Linux
2 19 (5.64%) Unix
3 16 (4.75%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.26%) Android
5 10 (2.97%) Windows
6 6 (1.78%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.59%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (48.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 157 (46.59%) CI/CD
3 151 (44.81%) Software Engineering
4 125 (37.09%) Agile
5 118 (35.01%) DevOps
6 108 (32.05%) Collaborative Culture
7 95 (28.19%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (24.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 80 (23.74%) Mentoring
10 68 (20.18%) Test Automation
11 59 (17.51%) Observability
12 52 (15.43%) AI
13 47 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
14 45 (13.35%) SDLC
15 43 (12.76%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (11.87%) Clean Code
16 40 (11.87%) Containerisation
17 38 (11.28%) Code Quality
18 36 (10.68%) Software Architecture
19 34 (10.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 108 (32.05%) Python
2 56 (16.62%) SQL
3 48 (14.24%) C#
4 42 (12.46%) Java
5 39 (11.57%) TypeScript
6 37 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.61%) C++
8 25 (7.42%) Bash
9 21 (6.23%) C
10 18 (5.34%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.45%) Scala
12 13 (3.86%) Go
13 11 (3.26%) Embedded C
14 9 (2.67%) PHP
15 7 (2.08%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.78%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.78%) Perl
17 5 (1.48%) MATLAB
18 4 (1.19%) Bicep
18 4 (1.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 82 (24.33%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.75%) Degree
4 13 (3.86%) HNC
5 12 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.97%) HND
7 8 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.59%) City & Guilds
12 2 (0.59%) 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 30 (8.90%) QA
2 12 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.19%) GDPR
4 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.30%) JTAG
System Software
1 39 (11.57%) Docker
2 17 (5.04%) Firmware
3 4 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (17.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.45%) Ansible
3 14 (4.15%) Grafana
4 11 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.78%) Argo
6 4 (1.19%) Istio
7 3 (0.89%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.89%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.30%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.30%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.53%) Google
3 14 (4.15%) Databricks
4 9 (2.67%) Cisco
5 7 (2.08%) VMware
6 5 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.19%) EMC
7 4 (1.19%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.89%) Dell
8 3 (0.89%) F5
8 3 (0.89%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.89%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.59%) Apple
9 2 (0.59%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.30%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.30%) IBM
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) Veeam