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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 649 785
Rank change year-on-year +176 +136 -25
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 359 20 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.041% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.046% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 284 15 3
10th Percentile £42,000 - £57,400
25th Percentile £50,750 £36,750 £75,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -31.82% +72.55%
75th Percentile £79,013 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +64.84% +7.06%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 15 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 15 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 +152 320 £65,000 -13.33% 278
UK excluding London +144 273 £60,000 -20.00% 188
Work from Home +76 120 £62,500 -16.67% 137
London +13 69 £87,500 -18.60% 109
South East +24 66 £55,000 -38.89% 44
North of England +8 66 £65,000 -13.33% 54
Midlands +9 59 £57,000 -5.00% 30
North West - 33 £65,000 - 35
West Midlands -10 30 £50,000 -16.67% 19
South West -52 29 £67,500 -25.00% 15
East Midlands - 29 £60,000 - 11
Wales - 26 £57,500 - 5
North East -40 23 £57,500 -23.33% 12
East of England -10 20 £60,000 -20.00% 25
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 9
Scotland +10 7 £60,000 +60.00% 17
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 7 (1.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.39%) Apache
3 3 (0.84%) Confluence
3 3 (0.84%) SAS
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Simulink
2 3 (0.84%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.28%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.28%) EPLAN
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (31.20%) AWS
2 102 (28.41%) Azure
3 52 (14.48%) GCP
4 26 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.96%) GitHub
6 20 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (4.74%) dbt
7 17 (4.74%) Serverless
8 14 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (3.34%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.34%) SaaS
10 11 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.51%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.95%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.57%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.18%) Firewall
3 13 (3.62%) DNS
4 11 (3.06%) Wireless
5 10 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.23%) LTE
7 7 (1.95%) VPN
8 6 (1.67%) BGP
9 4 (1.11%) 5G
9 4 (1.11%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.11%) VoIP
9 4 (1.11%) VSAT
10 3 (0.84%) WAN
11 2 (0.56%) 3GPP
11 2 (0.56%) DHCP
11 2 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.56%) LAN
11 2 (0.56%) OSPF
11 2 (0.56%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.62%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (2.51%) MySQL
6 8 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.23%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.95%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.56%) Big Data
11 2 (0.56%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.56%) Power BI
11 2 (0.56%) Redis
12 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 48 (13.37%) Git
2 9 (2.51%) GitLab
3 8 (2.23%) JIRA
4 7 (1.95%) Selenium
5 6 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.39%) Jasmine
6 5 (1.39%) Mocha
6 5 (1.39%) NUnit
7 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.56%) CMake
8 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) GDB
9 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.28%) Postman
9 1 (0.28%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 135 (37.60%) Social Skills
2 51 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (12.81%) Finance
4 45 (12.53%) Electronics
5 24 (6.69%) Manufacturing
6 19 (5.29%) Aviation
7 12 (3.34%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.06%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.95%) Automotive
9 7 (1.95%) Games
10 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.39%) Welsh Language
11 4 (1.11%) Banking
11 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Front Office
11 4 (1.11%) Law
12 3 (0.84%) Advertising
12 3 (0.84%) Local Government
12 3 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 97 (27.02%) Senior
2 74 (20.61%) Software Engineer
3 52 (14.48%) Developer
4 35 (9.75%) Embedded Engineer
5 33 (9.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (9.19%) Lead
6 27 (7.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 26 (7.24%) Electronics Engineer
7 26 (7.24%) Python Engineer
7 26 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (5.85%) Data Engineer
9 19 (5.29%) Site Engineer
9 19 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 14 (3.90%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (3.62%) Support Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Design Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.79%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (23.12%) Terraform
2 43 (11.98%) .NET
3 26 (7.24%) React
4 21 (5.85%) REST
5 19 (5.29%) Kafka
6 17 (4.74%) .NET Framework
7 15 (4.18%) ASP.NET
8 14 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (3.90%) Node.js
9 13 (3.62%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.62%) RESTful
10 10 (2.79%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.79%) Yocto
11 9 (2.51%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (2.51%) PySpark
11 9 (2.51%) Spring
12 8 (2.23%) Playwright
12 8 (2.23%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.95%) AWS CDK
14 6 (1.67%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.76%) Cloud Native
1 53 (14.76%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.13%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (5.01%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.34%) Analogue Electronics
5 12 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.51%) FPGA
7 9 (2.51%) IoT
8 7 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.95%) Device Driver
8 7 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.39%) PCIe
10 5 (1.39%) Verilog
10 5 (1.39%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.11%) Linux
2 19 (5.29%) Unix
3 17 (4.74%) Embedded Linux
4 10 (2.79%) Android
4 10 (2.79%) Windows
5 6 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.56%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
8 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (48.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 161 (44.85%) CI/CD
3 160 (44.57%) Software Engineering
4 127 (35.38%) Agile
5 124 (34.54%) DevOps
6 115 (32.03%) Collaborative Culture
7 109 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 84 (23.40%) Mentoring
10 70 (19.50%) Test Automation
11 62 (17.27%) Observability
12 54 (15.04%) AI
13 49 (13.65%) Technical Leadership
14 46 (12.81%) Platform Engineering
14 46 (12.81%) SDLC
15 43 (11.98%) Containerisation
16 40 (11.14%) Code Quality
17 38 (10.58%) Clean Code
18 37 (10.31%) Software Architecture
19 34 (9.47%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.08%) Python
2 58 (16.16%) SQL
3 48 (13.37%) C#
4 43 (11.98%) Java
5 39 (10.86%) TypeScript
6 34 (9.47%) JavaScript
7 29 (8.08%) C++
8 26 (7.24%) Bash
9 25 (6.96%) C
10 24 (6.69%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.18%) Scala
12 14 (3.90%) Go
13 13 (3.62%) Embedded C
14 9 (2.51%) PHP
15 7 (1.95%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.95%) Perl
16 6 (1.67%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.67%) MATLAB
17 5 (1.39%) Rust
18 4 (1.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.85%) Degree
4 17 (4.74%) HNC
5 13 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.34%) HND
7 8 (2.23%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.56%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.56%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) CCIE
12 1 (0.28%) CCNP
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.19%) QA
2 12 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.11%) GDPR
4 4 (1.11%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) ECSS
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.28%) JTAG
System Software
1 44 (12.26%) Docker
2 18 (5.01%) Firmware
3 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (17.83%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.18%) Ansible
3 14 (3.90%) Grafana
4 11 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.67%) Argo
6 4 (1.11%) Istio
7 3 (0.84%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.84%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.28%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) linkerd
9 1 (0.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.13%) Google
3 15 (4.18%) Databricks
4 10 (2.79%) Cisco
5 9 (2.51%) VMware
6 5 (1.39%) EMC
6 5 (1.39%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.11%) Dell
7 4 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.11%) F5
7 4 (1.11%) Infoblox
8 2 (0.56%) Apple
8 2 (0.56%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.28%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) Aruba
9 1 (0.28%) New Relic
9 1 (0.28%) Veeam
9 1 (0.28%) Zerto