Collaborative Engineering Job Trends

Collaborative Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	448	625	731
Rank change year-on-year	+177	+106	-21
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering	447	25	5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.37%	0.050%	0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.50%	0.057%	0.009%
Number of salaries quoted	340	18	5
10^th Percentile	£41,000	£36,750	£85,500
25^th Percentile	£51,000	£55,313	£86,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£71,250	£110,000
Median % change year-on-year	-8.77%	-35.23%	-18.52%
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£80,000	£115,000
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£91,500	£122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£60,000	£71,250	£106,250
% change year-on-year	-15.79%	-32.94%	+150.00%

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 citing process or methodology skills.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills	89,680	43,588	55,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.67%	86.96%	82.58%
Number of salaries quoted	59,971	26,305	29,396
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,750
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,500	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£59,000	£54,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.26%	-10.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,750	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-13.43%	+2.86%

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 Salary Trend

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 5 November 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 5 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	+174	395	£65,000	-13.33%	123
UK excluding London	+127	355	£60,000	-15.79%	103
Work from Home	+67	144	£67,500	-10.00%	50
North of England	+13	96	£65,000	-1.89%	23
London	+2	73	£87,500	-1.41%	31
South East	-9	73	£55,000	-38.89%	30
Midlands	-19	59	£60,000	-	21
North West	-16	53	£65,000	+18.18%	11
South West	-34	50	£73,750	-1.67%	14
East of England	-36	35	£60,000	-15.79%	11
East Midlands	-	35	£60,000	-	11
North East	-34	34	£65,000	-13.33%	4
Wales	-	29	£57,500	-	2
West Midlands	-36	24	£50,000	-16.67%	10
Scotland	+9	13	£71,991	+91.98%	2
Yorkshire	-	9	£90,000	-	8
Northern Ireland	-	1	£71,991	-	1

Collaborative Engineering Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 November 2026, job vacancies citing Collaborative Engineering also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Collaborative Engineering.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	45.9%	205
2	Software Engineering	43.0%	192
3	CI/CD	40.9%	183
4	DevOps	31.8%	142
5	Problem-Solving	30.9%	138
6	Collaborative Culture	29.1%	130
7	Agile	28.6%	128
8	AWS	25.3%	113
9	Python	24.4%	109
10	Azure	23.9%	107
11	Mentoring	22.1%	99
12	Terraform	21.0%	94
13	Security Cleared	20.4%	91
14	Infrastructure as Code	20.1%	90
15	Test Automation	19.7%	88
16	Kubernetes	17.0%	76
17	Linux	15.9%	71
18	Docker	14.3%	64
19	AI	13.4%	60
19	Git	13.4%	60
21	SQL	13.2%	59
22	Observability	13.0%	58
23	GCP	11.9%	53
23	SC Cleared	11.9%	53
23	TypeScript	11.9%	53
26	SDLC	11.6%	52
27	Containerisation	11.0%	49
27	Java	11.0%	49
27	Technical Leadership	11.0%	49
30	Clean Code	10.3%	46

Collaborative Engineering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	45.9%	205
2	Software Engineering	43.0%	192
3	CI/CD	40.9%	183
4	DevOps	31.8%	142
5	Problem-Solving	30.9%	138
6	Collaborative Culture	29.1%	130
7	Agile	28.6%	128
8	Mentoring	22.1%	99
9	Infrastructure as Code	20.1%	90
10	Test Automation	19.7%	88
11	AI	13.4%	60
12	Observability	13.0%	58
13	SDLC	11.6%	52
14	Containerisation	11.0%	49
14	Technical Leadership	11.0%	49
16	Clean Code	10.3%	46
17	Code Quality	10.1%	45
18	Microservices	9.6%	43
18	Platform Engineering	9.6%	43
20	Root Cause Analysis	8.5%	38