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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 678 845
Rank change year-on-year +169 +167 +7
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 250 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.022% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.025% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 204 11 7
10th Percentile £42,500 - £73,700
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -36.84% +49.02%
75th Percentile £82,813 £87,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -28.95% +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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
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 22 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Engineering in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
Top 16 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 22 July 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 +141 221 £60,000 -11.11% 154
UK excluding London +103 193 £60,000 -11.11% 130
Work from Home +71 83 £60,000 -20.00% 95
Midlands +25 49 £54,000 -10.00% 18
North of England - 47 £65,000 - 29
South East - 42 £57,500 - 41
London +10 41 £87,500 -18.60% 49
North West - 28 £57,500 - 14
West Midlands +10 26 £50,000 -16.67% 9
East Midlands - 23 £60,000 - 9
South West -50 17 £56,250 -37.50% 19
Wales - 16 £58,750 - 7
East of England +7 14 £60,000 -20.00% 10
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 7
Scotland +23 8 £60,000 +60.00% 6
North East - 8 £65,000 - 8

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 5 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Apache
3 3 (1.20%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.40%) AWS
2 70 (28.00%) Azure
3 30 (12.00%) GCP
4 16 (6.40%) GitHub
5 14 (5.60%) SaaS
6 13 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (4.00%) Serverless
9 9 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.40%) dbt
11 6 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (2.40%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.60%) ChatGPT
12 4 (1.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.20%) Firewall
2 10 (4.00%) DNS
3 6 (2.40%) LTE
3 6 (2.40%) Wireless
4 5 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.60%) BGP
5 4 (1.60%) VPN
6 3 (1.20%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.20%) VoIP
6 3 (1.20%) VSAT
6 3 (1.20%) WAN
7 2 (0.80%) LAN
8 1 (0.40%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.40%) 5G
8 1 (0.40%) DHCP
8 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.40%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.40%) OSPF
8 1 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (3.20%) MySQL
5 7 (2.80%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.40%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.40%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.60%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.20%) Power BI
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.80%) Big Data
10 2 (0.80%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.80%) Redis
10 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.40%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 40 (16.00%) Git
2 9 (3.60%) GitLab
3 7 (2.80%) JIRA
4 5 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.60%) Selenium
6 3 (1.20%) NUnit
6 3 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.80%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.80%) Mocha
7 2 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.40%) CMake
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) git-flow
8 1 (0.40%) JUnit
8 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.60%) Finance
4 22 (8.80%) Electronics
5 12 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.40%) Aviation
7 8 (3.20%) Games
8 7 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.60%) Local Government
10 4 (1.60%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.20%) Advertising
11 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Law
11 3 (1.20%) Military
12 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.80%) Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Front Office
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (24.00%) Senior
2 54 (21.60%) Software Engineer
3 48 (19.20%) Developer
4 27 (10.80%) Lead
5 24 (9.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.40%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (8.00%) Embedded Engineer
8 17 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 14 (5.60%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.60%) Electronics Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Technical Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Technical Support
13 9 (3.60%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.60%) .NET
2 26 (10.40%) React
3 21 (8.40%) .NET Framework
4 18 (7.20%) ASP.NET
5 17 (6.80%) REST
6 16 (6.40%) Entity Framework
6 16 (6.40%) Kafka
7 15 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (5.60%) Node.js
9 11 (4.40%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (3.60%) Spring
11 8 (3.20%) Vue
12 7 (2.80%) PySpark
12 7 (2.80%) React Native
12 7 (2.80%) RESTful
12 7 (2.80%) Spring Boot
13 6 (2.40%) AWS CDK
13 6 (2.40%) Yocto
14 4 (1.60%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 31 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.60%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.40%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.40%) IoT
9 5 (2.00%) Device Driver
9 5 (2.00%) FPGA
9 5 (2.00%) PCIe
9 5 (2.00%) Verilog
9 5 (2.00%) VHDL
10 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.60%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.60%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.20%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.80%) Linux
2 12 (4.80%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (4.00%) Android
4 8 (3.20%) Windows
5 7 (2.80%) Unix
6 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (46.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 115 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 105 (42.00%) Software Engineering
4 100 (40.00%) Agile
5 87 (34.80%) DevOps
6 76 (30.40%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (28.80%) Collaborative Culture
8 53 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (19.20%) Mentoring
9 48 (19.20%) Test Automation
10 47 (18.80%) AI
11 38 (15.20%) Observability
12 32 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (12.40%) SDLC
14 30 (12.00%) Containerisation
14 30 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 28 (11.20%) Microservices
17 27 (10.80%) Clean Code
18 26 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (31.60%) Python
2 44 (17.60%) SQL
3 42 (16.80%) C#
4 37 (14.80%) TypeScript
5 36 (14.40%) Java
6 33 (13.20%) JavaScript
7 25 (10.00%) C++
8 17 (6.80%) Bash
9 15 (6.00%) C
10 10 (4.00%) Embedded C
10 10 (4.00%) Go
11 9 (3.60%) PHP
11 9 (3.60%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.60%) Scala
12 6 (2.40%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.00%) Bicep
13 5 (2.00%) Embedded C++
13 5 (2.00%) MATLAB
13 5 (2.00%) Perl
14 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.80%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.00%) Degree
5 5 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.60%) HNC
6 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.20%) HND
7 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) CCIE
8 1 (0.40%) CCNP
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.40%) QA
2 11 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (11.20%) Docker
2 9 (3.60%) Firmware
3 4 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (21.20%) Terraform
2 43 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.40%) Grafana
3 11 (4.40%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.60%) Ansible
5 6 (2.40%) Argo
6 4 (1.60%) Istio
7 3 (1.20%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.40%) linkerd
Vendors
1 27 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.40%) Databricks
3 10 (4.00%) Google
4 8 (3.20%) Cisco
5 4 (1.60%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.60%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.60%) VMware
6 3 (1.20%) Dell
6 3 (1.20%) F5
6 3 (1.20%) Infoblox
6 3 (1.20%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.80%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.40%) Apple
8 1 (0.40%) Arista
8 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.40%) FXall
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.40%) Sophos