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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 634 784
Rank change year-on-year +181 +150 -56
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 400 20 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.040% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.045% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 308 15 3
10th Percentile £41,175 £36,750 £90,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,875 £95,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% -13.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £88,125 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% -14.29% +105.88%

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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +176 353 £65,000 -13.33% 237
UK excluding London +156 311 £60,000 -20.00% 177
Work from Home +82 129 £67,500 -10.00% 137
North of England +14 82 £65,000 -13.33% 45
London -2 70 £87,500 -12.50% 79
South East +19 69 £55,000 -38.89% 40
Midlands +18 60 £60,000 - 24
North West - 43 £65,000 - 30
South West -35 37 £72,500 -12.12% 15
East Midlands - 34 £60,000 - 5
North East -34 28 £65,000 -13.33% 5
Wales - 28 £57,500 - 5
West Midlands -15 26 £50,000 -16.67% 19
East of England -9 24 £60,000 -20.00% 26
Scotland +10 11 £71,991 +91.98% 17
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 5

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 9 (2.25%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.75%) Apache
3 3 (0.75%) CMS
3 3 (0.75%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.75%) SAS
4 2 (0.50%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Simulink
2 5 (1.25%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.75%) EPLAN
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.25%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.25%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (28.25%) AWS
2 111 (27.75%) Azure
3 56 (14.00%) GCP
4 29 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.00%) GitHub
6 22 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (5.25%) Serverless
8 16 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.00%) dbt
9 14 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.00%) SaaS
11 11 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (2.00%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.75%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.75%) Azure Functions
14 7 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.25%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.00%) Firewall
3 14 (3.50%) DNS
3 14 (3.50%) Wireless
4 13 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.00%) LTE
5 8 (2.00%) VPN
6 7 (1.75%) BGP
7 4 (1.00%) 5G
7 4 (1.00%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.00%) VoIP
7 4 (1.00%) VSAT
8 3 (0.75%) WAN
9 2 (0.50%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.50%) DHCP
9 2 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.50%) LAN
9 2 (0.50%) OSPF
9 2 (0.50%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.50%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.25%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.25%) MySQL
6 8 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.25%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.75%) Big Data
10 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.50%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.50%) Power BI
12 1 (0.25%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 51 (12.75%) Git
2 12 (3.00%) GitLab
3 7 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.75%) JIRA
4 5 (1.25%) Jasmine
4 5 (1.25%) Mocha
4 5 (1.25%) NUnit
4 5 (1.25%) Selenium
5 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.50%) CMake
7 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.25%) git-flow
8 1 (0.25%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (37.75%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (12.75%) Finance
4 48 (12.00%) Electronics
5 31 (7.75%) Manufacturing
6 22 (5.50%) Aviation
7 13 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.00%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.25%) Automotive
10 8 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.50%) Games
11 6 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.25%) Welsh Language
13 4 (1.00%) Banking
13 4 (1.00%) Front Office
13 4 (1.00%) Retail
14 3 (0.75%) Law
14 3 (0.75%) Military
14 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 121 (30.25%) Senior
2 93 (23.25%) Software Engineer
3 50 (12.50%) Developer
4 42 (10.50%) Embedded Engineer
5 36 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (9.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 31 (7.75%) Lead
7 30 (7.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 29 (7.25%) Electronics Engineer
8 29 (7.25%) Python Engineer
9 22 (5.50%) Data Engineer
10 21 (5.25%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.75%) Site Engineer
11 19 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.00%) Design Engineer
13 16 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
14 13 (3.25%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 12 (3.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (22.25%) Terraform
2 47 (11.75%) .NET
3 36 (9.00%) React
4 30 (7.50%) REST
5 23 (5.75%) Kafka
6 19 (4.75%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.75%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.75%) Node.js
8 14 (3.50%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (3.25%) Entity Framework
9 13 (3.25%) RESTful
9 13 (3.25%) Yocto
10 12 (3.00%) Spring
11 11 (2.75%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.25%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.25%) Spring Boot
13 8 (2.00%) NestJS
13 8 (2.00%) PySpark
13 8 (2.00%) Vue
14 7 (1.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.75%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.25%) Analogue Electronics
6 12 (3.00%) IoT
7 11 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.50%) Device Driver
8 10 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.50%) FPGA
9 9 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.50%) VHDL
13 5 (1.25%) PCIe
13 5 (1.25%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 69 (17.25%) Linux
2 21 (5.25%) Embedded Linux
3 19 (4.75%) Unix
4 13 (3.25%) Windows
5 9 (2.25%) Android
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.50%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (46.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 182 (45.50%) Software Engineering
3 173 (43.25%) CI/CD
4 133 (33.25%) DevOps
5 129 (32.25%) Agile
6 128 (32.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 120 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (23.75%) Mentoring
9 91 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (19.50%) Test Automation
11 63 (15.75%) Observability
12 60 (15.00%) AI
13 51 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
14 49 (12.25%) SDLC
15 47 (11.75%) Code Quality
16 45 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
17 44 (11.00%) Containerisation
18 43 (10.75%) Clean Code
19 39 (9.75%) Microservices
20 35 (8.75%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 114 (28.50%) Python
2 54 (13.50%) SQL
3 51 (12.75%) C#
4 45 (11.25%) Java
4 45 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 35 (8.75%) JavaScript
6 29 (7.25%) C
6 29 (7.25%) C++
7 26 (6.50%) Bash
8 24 (6.00%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.00%) Embedded C
9 16 (4.00%) Scala
10 13 (3.25%) Go
11 11 (2.75%) PHP
12 7 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.75%) Perl
13 6 (1.50%) Embedded C++
13 6 (1.50%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.25%) Rust
15 4 (1.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 90 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.75%) Degree
4 20 (5.00%) HNC
5 16 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.00%) HND
6 7 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) City & Guilds
8 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.50%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) CCIE
9 1 (0.25%) CCNP
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.75%) QA
2 12 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.00%) GDPR
4 4 (1.00%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.25%) ECSS
6 1 (0.25%) GAMP
6 1 (0.25%) GMP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.25%) JTAG
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (14.00%) Docker
2 20 (5.00%) Firmware
3 6 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (18.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.75%) Ansible
3 14 (3.50%) Grafana
4 11 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.75%) Argo
6 4 (1.00%) Istio
7 3 (0.75%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.75%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.50%) Packer
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.25%) linkerd
Vendors
1 41 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.00%) Google
3 16 (4.00%) Databricks
4 11 (2.75%) Cisco
5 10 (2.50%) VMware
6 6 (1.50%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.25%) Dell
7 5 (1.25%) EMC
7 5 (1.25%) F5
7 5 (1.25%) Infoblox
7 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.75%) Siemens
10 2 (0.50%) Apple
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle
10 2 (0.50%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.25%) Allen-Bradley
11 1 (0.25%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.25%) New Relic