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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 660 864
Rank change year-on-year +139 +204 -13
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 242 11 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.022% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.025% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 196 11 9
10th Percentile £42,500 - £83,100
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 £80,625 £87,500 £97,500
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 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
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 20 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 20 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 +137 213 £60,000 -11.11% 133
UK excluding London +97 189 £60,000 -11.11% 114
Work from Home +63 78 £60,000 -20.00% 79
Midlands +20 49 £54,000 -10.00% 18
North of England - 44 £65,000 - 26
South East - 41 £57,500 - 37
London +9 37 £87,500 -18.60% 42
North West - 28 £57,500 - 14
West Midlands +7 26 £50,000 -16.67% 10
East Midlands - 23 £60,000 - 8
South West -44 17 £56,250 -37.50% 14
Wales - 16 £58,750 - 5
East of England -4 14 £60,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire - 11 £90,000 - 6
Scotland +21 8 £60,000 +60.00% 6
North East - 5 £65,000 - 6

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 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) Apache
2 3 (1.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (30.17%) AWS
2 70 (28.93%) Azure
3 30 (12.40%) GCP
4 13 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.37%) GitHub
4 13 (5.37%) SaaS
5 11 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (3.31%) Serverless
7 7 (2.89%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.48%) dbt
8 6 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.07%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.65%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.24%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.37%) Firewall
2 10 (4.13%) DNS
3 6 (2.48%) LTE
4 5 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.07%) Wireless
5 4 (1.65%) VPN
6 3 (1.24%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.24%) BGP
6 3 (1.24%) VoIP
6 3 (1.24%) VSAT
7 2 (0.83%) WAN
8 1 (0.41%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.41%) DHCP
8 1 (0.41%) LAN
8 1 (0.41%) NFC
8 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.96%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (3.31%) MySQL
5 7 (2.89%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.24%) Power BI
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.83%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.83%) Redis
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.41%) Big Data
10 1 (0.41%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 36 (14.88%) Git
2 9 (3.72%) GitLab
3 7 (2.89%) JIRA
4 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.65%) Selenium
5 3 (1.24%) NUnit
5 3 (1.24%) Postman
6 2 (0.83%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.83%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.83%) Mocha
6 2 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) CMake
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) git-flow
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
7 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.41%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.81%) Finance
4 20 (8.26%) Electronics
5 12 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.55%) Aviation
7 8 (3.31%) Games
8 7 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.65%) Local Government
10 4 (1.65%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.24%) Advertising
11 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Law
11 3 (1.24%) Military
12 2 (0.83%) Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (23.55%) Senior
2 52 (21.49%) Software Engineer
3 45 (18.60%) Developer
4 27 (11.16%) Lead
5 22 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (8.26%) Embedded Engineer
7 19 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (7.02%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 14 (5.79%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (5.37%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (4.13%) Support Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) Electronics Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) Technical Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) Technical Support
14 9 (3.72%) Technical Support Engineer
15 8 (3.31%) .NET Developer
15 8 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.18%) .NET
2 25 (10.33%) React
3 20 (8.26%) .NET Framework
4 18 (7.44%) ASP.NET
5 16 (6.61%) Entity Framework
5 16 (6.61%) Kafka
6 15 (6.20%) ASP.NET Core
7 14 (5.79%) Node.js
7 14 (5.79%) REST
8 11 (4.55%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.72%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (3.72%) Spring
10 8 (3.31%) Vue
11 7 (2.89%) PySpark
11 7 (2.89%) React Native
11 7 (2.89%) RESTful
11 7 (2.89%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.48%) Yocto
13 5 (2.07%) AWS CDK
14 4 (1.65%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.44%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.96%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.89%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.48%) IoT
9 5 (2.07%) Device Driver
9 5 (2.07%) FPGA
9 5 (2.07%) PCIe
9 5 (2.07%) Verilog
9 5 (2.07%) VHDL
10 4 (1.65%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.24%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.05%) Linux
2 11 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (3.72%) Android
4 8 (3.31%) Windows
5 7 (2.89%) Unix
6 4 (1.65%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (47.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 110 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 103 (42.56%) Software Engineering
4 99 (40.91%) Agile
5 86 (35.54%) DevOps
6 73 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (27.69%) Collaborative Culture
8 50 (20.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (19.42%) Mentoring
10 46 (19.01%) Test Automation
11 45 (18.60%) AI
12 36 (14.88%) Observability
13 32 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (12.40%) SDLC
15 29 (11.98%) Containerisation
16 28 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
16 28 (11.57%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (11.16%) Microservices
18 26 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
19 25 (10.33%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 75 (30.99%) Python
2 44 (18.18%) SQL
3 42 (17.36%) C#
4 36 (14.88%) Java
4 36 (14.88%) TypeScript
5 32 (13.22%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.92%) C++
7 17 (7.02%) Bash
8 14 (5.79%) C
9 10 (4.13%) Embedded C
9 10 (4.13%) Go
10 9 (3.72%) PHP
10 9 (3.72%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.31%) Scala
12 5 (2.07%) Bicep
12 5 (2.07%) Embedded C++
12 5 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.07%) MATLAB
12 5 (2.07%) Perl
13 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.96%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.72%) Degree
5 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.24%) HNC
7 3 (1.24%) HND
7 3 (1.24%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.68%) QA
2 11 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (10.74%) Docker
2 9 (3.72%) Firmware
3 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.24%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (21.07%) Terraform
2 42 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.55%) Grafana
3 11 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.31%) Ansible
5 6 (2.48%) Argo
6 4 (1.65%) Istio
7 3 (1.24%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) linkerd
Vendors
1 27 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.13%) Databricks
2 10 (4.13%) Google
3 7 (2.89%) Cisco
4 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
4 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.65%) VMware
5 3 (1.24%) Dell
5 3 (1.24%) F5
5 3 (1.24%) Infoblox
5 3 (1.24%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.41%) Apple
7 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.41%) FXall
7 1 (0.41%) IBM
7 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.41%) Sophos