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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 640 883
Rank change year-on-year +50 +243 +54
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 146 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.019% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.020% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 117 8 7
10th Percentile £45,000 - £73,700
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,750 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -40.26% +72.73%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,438 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,625 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% -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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Engineering in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
Top 14 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 27 May 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 +62 129 £63,750 +12.33% 112
UK excluding London +54 113 £57,500 -23.33% 95
Work from Home +61 45 £60,000 -20.00% 61
South East - 31 £55,000 - 31
North of England - 29 £56,250 - 22
West Midlands - 21 £50,000 - 7
Midlands - 21 £50,000 - 10
London -2 20 £87,500 -18.60% 34
North West - 19 £55,000 - 14
South West - 11 £74,500 - 16
East of England -17 10 £66,250 -11.67% 8
Yorkshire - 10 £90,000 - 6
Scotland - 6 £60,000 - 3
Wales - 5 £57,500 - 4

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 (3.42%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.37%) SAS
4 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (32.88%) Azure
2 43 (29.45%) AWS
3 18 (12.33%) GCP
4 10 (6.85%) SaaS
5 7 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.79%) GitHub
6 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.11%) Serverless
7 5 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.37%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.85%) Firewall
2 9 (6.16%) DNS
3 5 (3.42%) VPN
4 4 (2.74%) BGP
4 4 (2.74%) LTE
5 2 (1.37%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) Junos
6 1 (0.68%) LAN
6 1 (0.68%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.16%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.79%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.37%) MySQL
7 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.68%) Big Data
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.68%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 16 (10.96%) Git
2 11 (7.53%) GitLab
3 7 (4.79%) JIRA
4 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.05%) Postman
5 2 (1.37%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.37%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.37%) Selenium
5 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) NUnit
6 1 (0.68%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
1 24 (16.44%) Finance
2 22 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.90%) Electronics
4 7 (4.79%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.11%) Games
6 5 (3.42%) Law
6 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.74%) Aviation
7 4 (2.74%) Local Government
8 3 (2.05%) Advertising
8 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (21.92%) Developer
2 30 (20.55%) Senior
3 22 (15.07%) Software Engineer
4 14 (9.59%) Data Engineer
5 13 (8.90%) Lead
6 12 (8.22%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (7.53%) Support Engineer
8 10 (6.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.48%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Electronics Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Technical Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Technical Support
11 7 (4.79%) Technical Support Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Test Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.40%) .NET
2 16 (10.96%) .NET Framework
2 16 (10.96%) React
3 15 (10.27%) ASP.NET
4 14 (9.59%) Kafka
5 13 (8.90%) Entity Framework
6 12 (8.22%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (7.53%) Node.js
8 9 (6.16%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (5.48%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.79%) React Native
11 5 (3.42%) AWS CDK
11 5 (3.42%) PySpark
11 5 (3.42%) RESTful
11 5 (3.42%) Spring
12 4 (2.74%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (2.74%) Playwright
12 4 (2.74%) Vue
13 3 (2.05%) OpenCV
13 3 (2.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.49%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.01%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.85%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.11%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.11%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.42%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.42%) FPGA
5 5 (3.42%) PCIe
5 5 (3.42%) Verilog
5 5 (3.42%) VHDL
6 4 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.74%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.74%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.05%) NHS
7 3 (2.05%) Photography
8 2 (1.37%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.85%) Linux
2 6 (4.11%) Android
3 4 (2.74%) Windows
4 3 (2.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.47%) CI/CD
2 61 (41.78%) Agile
3 54 (36.99%) DevOps
4 52 (35.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (28.08%) Software Engineering
6 38 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (23.97%) Test Automation
8 29 (19.86%) Collaborative Culture
9 26 (17.81%) AI
9 26 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (16.44%) Mentoring
10 24 (16.44%) Microservices
11 23 (15.75%) Observability
12 22 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (12.33%) Containerisation
14 18 (12.33%) High Availability
15 15 (10.27%) Software Architecture
16 14 (9.59%) Clean Code
16 14 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (28.08%) Python
2 37 (25.34%) C#
3 31 (21.23%) TypeScript
4 26 (17.81%) JavaScript
4 26 (17.81%) SQL
5 23 (15.75%) Java
6 16 (10.96%) C++
7 6 (4.11%) C
8 5 (3.42%) Bash
8 5 (3.42%) Embedded C
8 5 (3.42%) Embedded C++
8 5 (3.42%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.74%) Bicep
9 4 (2.74%) PHP
9 4 (2.74%) Scala
10 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.37%) Go
11 2 (1.37%) Perl
11 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.90%) DV Cleared
3 10 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.11%) Degree
5 5 (3.42%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) QA
2 7 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 15 (10.27%) Docker
2 10 (6.85%) Firmware
3 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 32 (21.92%) Terraform
3 5 (3.42%) Ansible
4 4 (2.74%) Argo
4 4 (2.74%) Grafana
4 4 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.79%) Databricks
3 6 (4.11%) Cisco
4 5 (3.42%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.42%) VMware
5 4 (2.74%) Dell
5 4 (2.74%) F5
5 4 (2.74%) Infoblox
6 3 (2.05%) Xamarin
7 2 (1.37%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.37%) Oracle
7 2 (1.37%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.68%) FXall
8 1 (0.68%) Juniper
8 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.68%) Sophos