Community of Practice Contracts in England

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Community of Practice skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Community of Practice over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 529 539
Rank change year-on-year +57 +10 +31
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 63 134 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.29% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 90 160
10th Percentile £387 £450 £463
25th Percentile £450 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £559
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.91% +6.94%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £506 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -10.04% +2.27% +20.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - - £29.74
25th Percentile £66.83 - £31.50
Median hourly rate £68.67 £85.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +105.54% -8.10%
75th Percentile £70.50 - £44.70
90th Percentile - - £46.95
UK median hourly rate £68.67 £85.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year -19.22% +128.63% -17.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Community of Practice is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in England.

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in England.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Community of Practice within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +65 35 £550 -12.00% 17
South East +33 15 £565 -13.08% 7
West Midlands +29 6 £800 +39.13% 3
Midlands +18 6 £800 +41.59% 3
South West +19 5 £400 -40.74% 5
Yorkshire +15 1 £575 +27.78% 3
North of England +14 1 £575 +15.00% 21
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) SAP MII
2 1 (1.59%) SAP PP
2 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) Azure
2 10 (15.87%) AWS
3 6 (9.52%) GitHub
4 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.17%) Asana
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.17%) GCP
5 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.17%) Slack
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (4.76%) CockroachDB
1 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) Maven
3 2 (3.17%) Selenium
4 1 (1.59%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.59%) Subversion
4 1 (1.59%) TestNG
General
1 21 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Local Government
4 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.35%) Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Aviation
7 2 (3.17%) Front Office
7 2 (3.17%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Architect
2 11 (17.46%) Enterprise Architect
3 10 (15.87%) Lead
4 6 (9.52%) Project Leader
4 6 (9.52%) Senior
5 5 (7.94%) Product Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Product Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Business Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.17%) Scrum Master
8 2 (3.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (4.76%) JPA
2 3 (4.76%) Spring
2 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.17%) CSS
3 2 (3.17%) Drools
3 2 (3.17%) HTML
3 2 (3.17%) JSON
3 2 (3.17%) Swagger
4 1 (1.59%) .NET
4 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.59%) ADO
4 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.59%) Flask
4 1 (1.59%) Web Services
4 1 (1.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Blog
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Social Media
5 1 (1.59%) Tandem
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (58.73%) Agile
2 22 (34.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 13 (20.63%) Project Management
5 11 (17.46%) IT Strategy
5 11 (17.46%) Technology Strategy
6 10 (15.87%) Scrum
6 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.29%) Business Strategy
7 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 9 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
7 9 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (12.70%) Product Backlog
8 8 (12.70%) Strategic Roadmap
8 8 (12.70%) User Experience
9 7 (11.11%) Microservices
9 7 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
9 7 (11.11%) Programme Management
9 7 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) Java
2 7 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) Groovy
4 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.17%) Python
5 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.05%) Degree
3 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) ISEB
5 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) GDPR
1 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (3.17%) PMO
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) Podman
4 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.76%) Foundry
2 3 (4.76%) Google
2 3 (4.76%) Palantir
2 3 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Splunk
4 1 (1.59%) Ariba
4 1 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.59%) Cadence
4 1 (1.59%) Concur
4 1 (1.59%) HP
4 1 (1.59%) Sparx