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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 110 131
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 +15
Permanent jobs citing Collaborative Working 2,992 3,067 4,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.99% 3.08% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.23% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 1,522 2,341
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,503 £46,335 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,526 £57,744
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +3.09% +8.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +15.79%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +26 2,613 £50,000 -16.34% 1,345
UK excluding London +15 2,196 £45,000 -18.18% 919
Work from Home +2 1,052 £57,500 -4.17% 488
London +23 649 £67,500 -6.90% 499
South East +26 639 £45,000 -18.18% 244
North of England +10 505 £47,500 -13.64% 267
South West +43 414 £47,500 -12.99% 116
North West +48 295 £51,000 -7.27% 148
Midlands +15 253 £45,000 -14.29% 159
Scotland -61 169 £55,000 -18.52% 38
East of England -12 151 £46,297 -15.82% 94
Yorkshire -30 145 £47,500 -12.99% 89
West Midlands +15 135 £55,000 - 97
East Midlands +12 113 £38,250 -25.37% 62
North East +45 65 £42,000 -18.05% 33
Wales -2 39 £45,000 - 16
Northern Ireland +20 29 £42,500 -12.37% 12

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 82 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 60 (2.01%) Confluence
4 46 (1.54%) Apache
4 46 (1.54%) WebLogic
5 34 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 34 (1.14%) CMS
6 33 (1.10%) WordPress
7 16 (0.53%) nginx
8 13 (0.43%) IIS
8 13 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
9 12 (0.40%) JBoss
10 11 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
10 11 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
11 9 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.30%) SAS
12 7 (0.23%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.20%) Drupal
13 6 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 154 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 139 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (1.30%) Simulink
5 34 (1.14%) Photoshop
6 33 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
7 26 (0.87%) Sketch
8 19 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.60%) MS Visio
10 16 (0.53%) Adobe XD
11 13 (0.43%) 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 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 34 (1.14%) Siebel CRM
3 15 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
7 10 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 10 (0.33%) SAP SCM
8 9 (0.30%) SAP HR
9 8 (0.27%) Primavera
9 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 8 (0.27%) Shopify
10 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.20%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 665 (22.23%) Azure
2 376 (12.57%) AWS
3 243 (8.12%) Power Platform
4 232 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (3.74%) GCP
6 94 (3.14%) SaaS
7 83 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (1.84%) Entra ID
11 51 (1.70%) Serverless
12 48 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
12 48 (1.60%) OpenShift
13 47 (1.57%) PowerApps
14 42 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (1.37%) Power Automate
16 39 (1.30%) GitHub
17 37 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
18 32 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
19 27 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 120 (4.01%) DNS
2 117 (3.91%) Firewall
3 104 (3.48%) Broadband
4 89 (2.97%) TCP/IP
5 57 (1.91%) SSL
6 49 (1.64%) BGP
7 41 (1.37%) DHCP
8 36 (1.20%) WAN
9 28 (0.94%) Internet
9 28 (0.94%) LAN
10 27 (0.90%) AMQP
11 25 (0.84%) Network Security
12 24 (0.80%) VLAN
12 24 (0.80%) VPN
13 23 (0.77%) SAN
14 22 (0.74%) 5G
15 21 (0.70%) HTTP
15 21 (0.70%) Wireless
16 18 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (8.19%) SQL Server
2 206 (6.89%) Power BI
3 110 (3.68%) Relational Database
4 86 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 77 (2.57%) MySQL
6 62 (2.07%) Big Data
7 61 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
9 55 (1.84%) Oracle Database
10 53 (1.77%) RDBMS
11 46 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 46 (1.54%) Tableau
12 44 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
13 35 (1.17%) NoSQL
14 34 (1.14%) Data Lake
15 33 (1.10%) Siebel EIM
16 31 (1.04%) Hadoop
17 27 (0.90%) Cloudera CDH
18 26 (0.87%) Data Vault
19 25 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 175 (5.85%) JIRA
2 153 (5.11%) Git
3 84 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.57%) Selenium
5 25 (0.84%) Subversion
6 20 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 16 (0.53%) Vagrant
8 15 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 15 (0.50%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 13 (0.43%) GitLab
11 12 (0.40%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
13 8 (0.27%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.27%) eggPlant
13 8 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.23%) git-flow
14 7 (0.23%) JMeter
14 7 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,278 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 579 (19.35%) Finance
3 423 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 384 (12.83%) Aerospace
5 358 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 273 (9.12%) Marketing
7 198 (6.62%) Retail
8 131 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 121 (4.04%) Manufacturing
10 116 (3.88%) Legal
11 115 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
12 114 (3.81%) Law
13 109 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
14 96 (3.21%) Electronics
15 93 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
16 70 (2.34%) Banking
17 48 (1.60%) Local Government
18 35 (1.17%) Games
19 34 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
20 33 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 488 (16.31%) Senior
2 423 (14.14%) Developer
3 278 (9.29%) Lead
4 234 (7.82%) Analyst
5 185 (6.18%) Architect
6 176 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 148 (4.95%) Project Manager
8 143 (4.78%) Senior Developer
9 94 (3.14%) Consultant
9 94 (3.14%) Software Developer
10 93 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
11 91 (3.04%) DBA
12 82 (2.74%) SQL DBA
13 79 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
13 79 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 77 (2.57%) Senior Manager
15 59 (1.97%) Business Analyst
15 59 (1.97%) Data Engineer
16 56 (1.87%) IT Support
17 55 (1.84%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (7.39%) .NET
2 151 (5.05%) HTML
3 131 (4.38%) React
4 120 (4.01%) CSS
5 90 (3.01%) Spring Boot
6 87 (2.91%) AngularJS
7 79 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
8 62 (2.07%) REST
9 60 (2.01%) Spring
10 55 (1.84%) HTML5
11 54 (1.80%) Node.js
12 53 (1.77%) RESTful
13 51 (1.70%) Web Services
14 49 (1.64%) ASP.NET
15 46 (1.54%) Vue
16 44 (1.47%) XML
17 42 (1.40%) .NET Framework
18 40 (1.34%) Laravel
19 38 (1.27%) .NET Core
20 37 (1.24%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 197 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 182 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 98 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 87 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 68 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 55 (1.84%) Social Media
8 54 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 52 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 37 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 37 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 35 (1.17%) Driving Licence
11 35 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 23 (0.77%) NHS
15 22 (0.74%) Algorithms
15 22 (0.74%) IoT
16 21 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
17 19 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 332 (11.10%) Linux
2 241 (8.05%) Windows
3 115 (3.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 87 (2.91%) VMS
5 70 (2.34%) Windows Server
6 52 (1.74%) Android
6 52 (1.74%) Windows 10
7 51 (1.70%) Ubuntu
8 45 (1.50%) CentOS
9 36 (1.20%) Apple iOS
10 29 (0.97%) Debian
11 26 (0.87%) Windows 7
12 21 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
13 18 (0.60%) Mac OS
14 17 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
15 16 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
16 13 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
17 11 (0.37%) Windows 8
18 8 (0.27%) Unix
18 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,057 (35.33%) Agile
2 900 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
3 523 (17.48%) Project Management
4 437 (14.61%) Actionable Insight
5 369 (12.33%) Mentoring
6 331 (11.06%) DevOps
7 325 (10.86%) Scrum
8 296 (9.89%) Software Engineering
9 282 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 252 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
11 247 (8.26%) Computer Science
12 238 (7.95%) Customer Service
13 231 (7.72%) Coaching
14 230 (7.69%) Project Delivery
15 213 (7.12%) Roadmaps
16 211 (7.05%) SDLC
17 201 (6.72%) Analytics
17 201 (6.72%) User Experience
18 197 (6.58%) Decision-Making
19 180 (6.02%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 459 (15.34%) SQL
2 315 (10.53%) Python
3 250 (8.36%) JavaScript
4 232 (7.75%) Java
5 223 (7.45%) C#
6 130 (4.34%) T-SQL
7 125 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 81 (2.71%) PHP
9 78 (2.61%) C++
10 69 (2.31%) TypeScript
11 66 (2.21%) C
12 60 (2.01%) Bash
13 39 (1.30%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.70%) Swift
15 17 (0.57%) VBA
16 16 (0.53%) Ruby
16 16 (0.53%) Scala
17 15 (0.50%) Go
18 12 (0.40%) R
18 12 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 656 (21.93%) Degree
2 551 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 305 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 213 (7.12%) DV Cleared
5 135 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 113 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 96 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 75 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 59 (1.97%) DBS Check
10 56 (1.87%) AWS Certification
11 47 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 37 (1.24%) PMI Certification
13 36 (1.20%) PMP
14 35 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
15 34 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
16 32 (1.07%) CISSP
16 32 (1.07%) HNC
17 26 (0.87%) PhD
18 25 (0.84%) MBA
19 24 (0.80%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.99%) QA
2 94 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 81 (2.71%) PMO
4 59 (1.97%) GDPR
5 48 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.37%) SLA
7 24 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
11 9 (0.30%) NIST
12 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.23%) NCSC
14 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.17%) GRC
15 5 (0.17%) ISO 14001
16 4 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 152 (5.08%) Docker
2 142 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 95 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
4 94 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 44 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.90%) Firmware
7 22 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.67%) vSphere
9 14 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.23%) XenApp
12 6 (0.20%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.17%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.13%) NFS
15 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.033%) Lustre
17 1 (0.033%) RACF
17 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 195 (6.52%) Ansible
2 187 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 143 (4.78%) Terraform
4 57 (1.91%) Puppet
5 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.77%) SCCM
7 13 (0.43%) SCOM
8 12 (0.40%) SmoothWall
9 10 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.20%) Argo
11 5 (0.17%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 4 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 4 (0.13%) Kibana
12 4 (0.13%) WSUS
13 3 (0.10%) Grafana
13 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 2 (0.067%) Nessus
Vendors
1 633 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.95%) Oracle
3 120 (4.01%) VMware
4 105 (3.51%) SAP
5 103 (3.44%) Google
6 60 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 49 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 48 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 46 (1.54%) Sparx
10 42 (1.40%) Adobe
11 38 (1.27%) Cisco
11 38 (1.27%) Databricks
12 34 (1.14%) Siebel
13 32 (1.07%) Xilinx
14 30 (1.00%) Veeam
15 27 (0.90%) SaltStack
16 25 (0.84%) Informatica
17 22 (0.74%) Virgin Media
18 21 (0.70%) Apple
18 21 (0.70%) Dell