Collaborative Working
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Collaborative Working skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 108 139
Rank change year-on-year +17 +31 +4
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 2,972 3,184 4,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.00% 3.14% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.28% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,935 1,589 2,315
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,526 £57,744
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +3.09% +9.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Working is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working.

Salary trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
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 Working within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 +25 2,579 £50,000 -16.00% 1,180
UK excluding London +12 2,171 £45,000 -18.18% 790
Work from Home -7 1,033 £57,500 -4.17% 457
London +32 649 £67,500 -9.40% 432
South East +15 622 £45,000 -18.18% 192
North of England +2 506 £47,500 -13.64% 203
South West +39 401 £47,500 -12.99% 115
North West +41 294 £50,000 -11.11% 120
Midlands +19 251 £45,000 -16.85% 142
Scotland -59 174 £55,000 -18.00% 47
East of England -12 149 £45,649 -17.00% 90
Yorkshire -28 147 £47,500 -13.54% 68
West Midlands +10 131 £55,000 - 86
East Midlands +11 115 £39,000 -22.00% 55
North East +40 65 £42,000 -11.58% 18
Wales -3 40 £45,000 - 19
Northern Ireland +19 31 £42,500 -10.05% 9

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 83 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 63 (2.12%) Confluence
4 46 (1.55%) WebLogic
5 45 (1.51%) Apache
6 34 (1.14%) CMS
6 34 (1.14%) WordPress
7 33 (1.11%) Apache Spark
8 29 (0.98%) Red Hat Fuse
9 28 (0.94%) JBoss
10 16 (0.54%) nginx
11 13 (0.44%) IIS
12 11 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
12 11 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
12 11 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
13 9 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
13 9 (0.30%) SAS
14 7 (0.24%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.20%) Drupal
15 6 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 149 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.14%) Photoshop
5 33 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
6 31 (1.04%) Simulink
7 27 (0.91%) Sketch
8 19 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.61%) MS Visio
10 16 (0.54%) Adobe XD
11 13 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
12 12 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 12 (0.40%) InDesign
12 12 (0.40%) InVision
13 8 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
14 6 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
15 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
15 4 (0.13%) Maya
16 3 (0.10%) Blender
16 3 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 46 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 33 (1.11%) Siebel CRM
3 15 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
7 11 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
8 10 (0.34%) SAP SCM
9 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
10 8 (0.27%) Primavera
10 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 8 (0.27%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.27%) Shopify
11 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.20%) NEC Housing
12 6 (0.20%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 655 (22.04%) Azure
2 369 (12.42%) AWS
3 247 (8.31%) Power Platform
4 234 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (3.77%) GCP
6 93 (3.13%) SaaS
7 84 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
8 68 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 57 (1.92%) Entra ID
11 55 (1.85%) Serverless
12 48 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
12 48 (1.62%) PowerApps
13 44 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (1.45%) OpenShift
15 42 (1.41%) Power Automate
16 40 (1.35%) GitHub
17 36 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
19 28 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.97%) DNS
2 111 (3.73%) Firewall
3 104 (3.50%) Broadband
4 84 (2.83%) TCP/IP
5 57 (1.92%) SSL
6 49 (1.65%) BGP
7 39 (1.31%) DHCP
8 33 (1.11%) WAN
9 28 (0.94%) LAN
10 27 (0.91%) Internet
11 26 (0.87%) AMQP
12 24 (0.81%) Network Security
12 24 (0.81%) SAN
12 24 (0.81%) VLAN
12 24 (0.81%) VPN
13 22 (0.74%) 5G
14 21 (0.71%) Wireless
15 18 (0.61%) HTTP
15 18 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 209 (7.03%) Power BI
3 108 (3.63%) Relational Database
4 86 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 77 (2.59%) MySQL
6 64 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (2.09%) Big Data
8 56 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
9 53 (1.78%) RDBMS
10 52 (1.75%) Oracle Database
11 50 (1.68%) Tableau
12 45 (1.51%) Oracle BI EE
13 42 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.18%) Data Lake
15 32 (1.08%) Siebel EIM
16 31 (1.04%) NoSQL
17 30 (1.01%) Hadoop
18 27 (0.91%) Data Vault
19 26 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
20 25 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 174 (5.85%) JIRA
2 147 (4.95%) Git
3 79 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.48%) Selenium
5 28 (0.94%) IntelliJ
6 25 (0.84%) Subversion
7 17 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.50%) GitLab
8 15 (0.50%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 12 (0.40%) Vagrant
11 10 (0.34%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.30%) git-flow
12 9 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
13 7 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.24%) JUnit
13 7 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.20%) Toad
General
1 1,284 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 574 (19.31%) Finance
3 434 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 360 (12.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 349 (11.74%) Aerospace
6 270 (9.08%) Marketing
7 192 (6.46%) Retail
8 155 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 131 (4.41%) Manufacturing
10 117 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
11 116 (3.90%) Legal
12 110 (3.70%) Law
12 110 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
13 93 (3.13%) Electronics
14 91 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
15 73 (2.46%) Banking
16 48 (1.62%) Local Government
17 34 (1.14%) Games
18 33 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
18 33 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 495 (16.66%) Senior
2 420 (14.13%) Developer
3 271 (9.12%) Lead
4 239 (8.04%) Analyst
5 185 (6.22%) Architect
6 181 (6.09%) Software Engineer
7 154 (5.18%) Project Manager
8 141 (4.74%) Senior Developer
9 93 (3.13%) Consultant
9 93 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (2.96%) DBA
10 88 (2.96%) Software Developer
11 82 (2.76%) SQL DBA
12 80 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
13 78 (2.62%) Senior Manager
14 76 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 62 (2.09%) Business Analyst
16 59 (1.99%) Data Engineer
17 58 (1.95%) IT Manager
18 57 (1.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (7.20%) .NET
2 150 (5.05%) HTML
3 133 (4.48%) React
4 119 (4.00%) CSS
5 102 (3.43%) AngularJS
6 89 (2.99%) Spring Boot
7 78 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
8 76 (2.56%) Spring
9 75 (2.52%) REST
10 69 (2.32%) RESTful
11 68 (2.29%) Web Services
12 57 (1.92%) XML
13 53 (1.78%) HTML5
13 53 (1.78%) Node.js
14 49 (1.65%) ASP.NET
15 44 (1.48%) .NET Framework
16 42 (1.41%) JSON
17 41 (1.38%) Vue
18 38 (1.28%) Laravel
19 37 (1.24%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 176 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
3 112 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 97 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 66 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 58 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 55 (1.85%) Social Media
9 51 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 38 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 37 (1.24%) Mobile App
12 35 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 33 (1.11%) Driving Licence
14 29 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 23 (0.77%) Algorithms
15 23 (0.77%) NHS
16 22 (0.74%) IoT
17 21 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
18 20 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 310 (10.43%) Linux
2 230 (7.74%) Windows
3 107 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 87 (2.93%) VMS
5 66 (2.22%) Windows Server
6 52 (1.75%) Windows 10
7 48 (1.62%) Android
8 46 (1.55%) Ubuntu
9 40 (1.35%) CentOS
10 36 (1.21%) Apple iOS
11 28 (0.94%) Debian
12 25 (0.84%) Windows 7
13 18 (0.61%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
15 13 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
16 12 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
17 11 (0.37%) Windows 8
18 10 (0.34%) Unix
19 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (34.96%) Agile
2 911 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
3 533 (17.93%) Project Management
4 454 (15.28%) Actionable Insight
5 386 (12.99%) Mentoring
6 328 (11.04%) Scrum
7 320 (10.77%) DevOps
8 299 (10.06%) Software Engineering
9 286 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 253 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
11 242 (8.14%) Project Delivery
12 241 (8.11%) Computer Science
13 236 (7.94%) Customer Service
14 226 (7.60%) Coaching
14 226 (7.60%) Roadmaps
15 220 (7.40%) User Experience
16 210 (7.07%) SDLC
17 198 (6.66%) Decision-Making
18 197 (6.63%) Analytics
19 182 (6.12%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 451 (15.17%) SQL
2 303 (10.20%) Python
3 242 (8.14%) JavaScript
4 234 (7.87%) Java
5 217 (7.30%) C#
6 126 (4.24%) T-SQL
7 116 (3.90%) PowerShell
8 81 (2.73%) PHP
9 67 (2.25%) C++
10 66 (2.22%) TypeScript
11 58 (1.95%) C
12 55 (1.85%) Bash
13 37 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.71%) Swift
15 19 (0.64%) Ruby
15 19 (0.64%) VBA
16 16 (0.54%) Scala
17 14 (0.47%) Go
17 14 (0.47%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 651 (21.90%) Degree
2 535 (18.00%) Security Cleared
3 305 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 187 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 130 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 114 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 98 (3.30%) Master's Degree
8 75 (2.52%) Azure Certification
9 59 (1.99%) DBS Check
10 56 (1.88%) AWS Certification
11 47 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 38 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 37 (1.24%) PMI Certification
14 36 (1.21%) PMP
15 34 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
16 32 (1.08%) HNC
17 31 (1.04%) CISSP
18 25 (0.84%) MBA
19 24 (0.81%) CCNA
19 24 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (6.93%) QA
2 97 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 80 (2.69%) PMO
4 62 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.02%) GDPR
6 39 (1.31%) SLA
7 25 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
11 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.24%) NCSC
12 7 (0.24%) NIST
13 5 (0.17%) GRC
13 5 (0.17%) ISO 14001
14 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
14 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 148 (4.98%) Docker
2 146 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 95 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
4 90 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 42 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.81%) Firmware
7 20 (0.67%) vSphere
8 18 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.24%) XenApp
12 6 (0.20%) DFS Replication
12 6 (0.20%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.13%) NFS
14 2 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.034%) Lustre
15 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.034%) RACF
15 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 182 (6.12%) Ansible
2 181 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 137 (4.61%) Terraform
4 54 (1.82%) Puppet
5 34 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.81%) SCCM
7 13 (0.44%) SCOM
8 12 (0.40%) SmoothWall
9 11 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.20%) Argo
10 6 (0.20%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.17%) WSUS
12 4 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 4 (0.13%) Kibana
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.10%) Grafana
13 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
14 2 (0.067%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 623 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 176 (5.92%) Oracle
3 113 (3.80%) VMware
4 104 (3.50%) Google
4 104 (3.50%) SAP
5 58 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 48 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 46 (1.55%) Sparx
8 44 (1.48%) Red Hat
9 42 (1.41%) Adobe
10 39 (1.31%) Databricks
11 35 (1.18%) Cisco
12 33 (1.11%) Siebel
13 29 (0.98%) Veeam
14 26 (0.87%) Informatica
14 26 (0.87%) SaltStack
15 24 (0.81%) Xilinx
16 22 (0.74%) Virgin Media
17 21 (0.71%) Apple
18 17 (0.57%) Citrix