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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 684 812
Rank change year-on-year +189 +128 +9
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 317 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.022% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.025% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 260 11 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £64,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -36.84% +49.02%
75th Percentile £79,850 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -21.05% +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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +166 282 £65,000 -3.70% 242
UK excluding London +130 242 £60,000 -20.00% 185
Work from Home +66 107 £65,000 -13.33% 118
North of England - 61 £65,000 - 42
London +7 59 £87,500 -23.08% 83
Midlands +20 58 £54,000 -10.00% 25
South East - 55 £55,000 - 52
North West - 35 £62,500 - 24
West Midlands +2 31 £50,000 -16.67% 15
East Midlands - 27 £60,000 - 10
South West -41 21 £57,500 -36.11% 26
Wales - 20 £62,500 - 4
East of England -10 17 £60,000 -20.00% 32
North East - 17 £65,000 - 10
Scotland +33 9 £60,000 +60.00% 11
Yorkshire - 9 £90,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 2

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 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.26%) Apache
2 4 (1.26%) Confluence
3 3 (0.95%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Simulink
2 2 (0.63%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.32%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (32.49%) AWS
2 96 (30.28%) Azure
3 48 (15.14%) GCP
4 21 (6.62%) GitHub
5 20 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.36%) dbt
7 14 (4.42%) Serverless
8 12 (3.79%) SaaS
9 11 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.84%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.52%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.99%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.42%) Firewall
3 11 (3.47%) DNS
4 8 (2.52%) Wireless
5 7 (2.21%) LTE
6 6 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.26%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.26%) BGP
7 4 (1.26%) VoIP
7 4 (1.26%) VPN
7 4 (1.26%) VSAT
8 3 (0.95%) WAN
9 2 (0.63%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.63%) 5G
9 2 (0.63%) LAN
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.32%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.32%) VLAN
10 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.10%) MongoDB
1 13 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.84%) MySQL
4 8 (2.52%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.52%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.58%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.95%) Big Data
9 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.63%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.63%) Power BI
9 2 (0.63%) Redis
9 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (15.14%) Git
2 9 (2.84%) GitLab
3 7 (2.21%) JIRA
3 7 (2.21%) Selenium
4 6 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.89%) NUnit
5 5 (1.58%) Jasmine
5 5 (1.58%) Mocha
6 4 (1.26%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.63%) CMake
7 2 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) GDB
8 1 (0.32%) git-flow
8 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.93%) Finance
4 31 (9.78%) Electronics
5 14 (4.42%) Aviation
6 13 (4.10%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.84%) Games
8 6 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.58%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.26%) Local Government
11 3 (0.95%) Advertising
11 3 (0.95%) Automotive
11 3 (0.95%) Banking
11 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Law
11 3 (0.95%) Military
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
12 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (27.76%) Senior
2 68 (21.45%) Software Engineer
3 57 (17.98%) Developer
4 32 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (9.78%) Lead
6 27 (8.52%) Embedded Engineer
6 27 (8.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (7.57%) Python Engineer
8 21 (6.62%) Data Engineer
8 21 (6.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 18 (5.68%) Site Engineer
9 18 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 17 (5.36%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.42%) Electronics Engineer
11 14 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.84%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 9 (2.84%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.46%) .NET
2 29 (9.15%) React
3 22 (6.94%) REST
4 21 (6.62%) .NET Framework
5 19 (5.99%) Kafka
6 18 (5.68%) ASP.NET
7 17 (5.36%) Node.js
8 16 (5.05%) Entity Framework
9 15 (4.73%) ASP.NET Core
10 12 (3.79%) RESTful
11 11 (3.47%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.84%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (2.84%) Spring
13 8 (2.52%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.52%) PySpark
13 8 (2.52%) React Native
13 8 (2.52%) Vue
13 8 (2.52%) Yocto
14 7 (2.21%) Playwright
14 7 (2.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 48 (15.14%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.31%) Mobile App
4 16 (5.05%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.52%) IoT
9 7 (2.21%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.89%) Device Driver
10 6 (1.89%) FPGA
11 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.58%) PCIe
11 5 (1.58%) Verilog
11 5 (1.58%) VHDL
12 4 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.26%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.26%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.98%) Linux
2 19 (5.99%) Unix
3 14 (4.42%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (3.47%) Android
4 11 (3.47%) Windows
5 7 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (48.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 152 (47.95%) CI/CD
3 143 (45.11%) Software Engineering
4 122 (38.49%) Agile
5 114 (35.96%) DevOps
6 100 (31.55%) Collaborative Culture
7 90 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 74 (23.34%) Mentoring
10 66 (20.82%) Test Automation
11 55 (17.35%) Observability
12 52 (16.40%) AI
13 43 (13.56%) SDLC
13 43 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
14 41 (12.93%) Clean Code
15 38 (11.99%) Platform Engineering
16 36 (11.36%) Containerisation
17 34 (10.73%) Code Quality
17 34 (10.73%) Microservices
18 33 (10.41%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 107 (33.75%) Python
2 50 (15.77%) SQL
3 47 (14.83%) C#
4 42 (13.25%) Java
5 41 (12.93%) TypeScript
6 36 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 29 (9.15%) C++
8 22 (6.94%) Bash
9 20 (6.31%) C
10 14 (4.42%) PowerShell
11 12 (3.79%) Scala
12 11 (3.47%) Embedded C
12 11 (3.47%) Go
13 9 (2.84%) PHP
14 7 (2.21%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.89%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.89%) Perl
16 5 (1.58%) Bicep
16 5 (1.58%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.73%) Degree
4 12 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.47%) HNC
6 8 (2.52%) HND
7 7 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.63%) City & Guilds
12 2 (0.63%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.32%) CCIE
13 1 (0.32%) CCNP
13 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.20%) QA
2 12 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.95%) GDPR
3 3 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 38 (11.99%) Docker
2 12 (3.79%) Firmware
3 5 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (23.03%) Terraform
2 53 (16.72%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.10%) Grafana
4 11 (3.47%) Ansible
4 11 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.89%) Argo
6 4 (1.26%) Istio
7 3 (0.95%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.95%) Puppet
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.32%) Kibana
9 1 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 32 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.94%) Google
3 14 (4.42%) Databricks
4 9 (2.84%) Cisco
5 6 (1.89%) VMware
6 5 (1.58%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.26%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.95%) Dell
8 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.95%) F5
8 3 (0.95%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.95%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.63%) Apple
9 2 (0.63%) EMC
9 2 (0.63%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.32%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.32%) New Relic
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle
10 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.32%) Sophos