Community of Practice Contracts in the South West

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 163 174
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 -33
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 5 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £397 - £516
25th Percentile £399 £390 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +12.50% -11.07%
75th Percentile - £700 £650
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £565 £561
% change year-on-year -2.65% +0.67% +7.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £68.67 £85.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -19.22% +105.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,654 3,248 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.70% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 2,395 2,337
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 192
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £16.89 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.98
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dorset - 4 £400 - 1
Devon - 1 - -
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (60.00%) CockroachDB
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) JPA
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Flask
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Architectural Design
1 4 (80.00%) Information Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Operational Stability
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft