Community of Practice Contracts in the UK excluding London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 349 398
Rank change year-on-year +16 +49 -14
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 63 98 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.47% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 76 97
10th Percentile £400 £413 £417
25th Percentile £456 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £529
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -3.97% +18.88%
75th Percentile £569 £616 £588
90th Percentile £629 £706 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +20.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - £64.00 £31.50
25th Percentile - £77.50 £35.09
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year - +105.54% -
75th Percentile - - £45.38
90th Percentile - - £47.03
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year - +105.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +29 35 £500 +1.73% 2
South East +28 11 £570 -12.31% 6
Midlands +37 7 £563 -0.44% 4
West Midlands +26 7 £563 - 3
South West +11 5 £400 -40.74% 5
Yorkshire +19 4 £575 +27.78% 4
North of England +14 4 £575 +21.05% 33
Northern Ireland - 2 £576 -
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (15.87%) Confluence
2 6 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.17%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) SAP MII
1 1 (1.59%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) AWS
2 11 (17.46%) Amazon S3
2 11 (17.46%) AWS CloudFormation
2 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (17.46%) OpenShift
2 11 (17.46%) Serverless
3 7 (11.11%) Azure
4 5 (7.94%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.35%) Rekognition
5 4 (6.35%) Textract
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (3.17%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) 5G
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (15.87%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.76%) CockroachDB
6 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.76%) Informix
7 2 (3.17%) InfluxDB
7 2 (3.17%) Metadata
8 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) JIRA
2 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.94%) Cucumber
3 5 (7.94%) JUnit
3 5 (7.94%) Mockito
4 4 (6.35%) Git
4 4 (6.35%) IntelliJ
4 4 (6.35%) Postman
5 2 (3.17%) GitLab
General
1 24 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 19 (30.16%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Legal
6 2 (3.17%) Publishing
7 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Developer
2 17 (26.98%) Lead
3 7 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (7.94%) Architect
4 5 (7.94%) Java Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Project Leader
5 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Lead Product Owner
5 4 (6.35%) Product Owner
5 4 (6.35%) Project Officer
5 4 (6.35%) Project Support Officer
5 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Support Officer
6 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) User Researcher
7 2 (3.17%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) AWS CDK
2 7 (11.11%) CSS
2 7 (11.11%) HTML
2 7 (11.11%) React
2 7 (11.11%) REST
3 6 (9.52%) Node.js
3 6 (9.52%) PySpark
3 6 (9.52%) Spring
3 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
4 4 (6.35%) Jest
4 4 (6.35%) Playwright
5 3 (4.76%) JPA
6 2 (3.17%) OAuth
6 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.17%) Spring Security
7 1 (1.59%) Flask
7 1 (1.59%) PostGIS
7 1 (1.59%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
1 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (84.13%) Agile
2 18 (28.57%) Coaching
3 15 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 15 (23.81%) Roadmaps
3 15 (23.81%) Software Engineering
4 14 (22.22%) User Experience
5 13 (20.63%) Code Quality
5 13 (20.63%) Kanban
6 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (19.05%) Unit Testing
7 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
8 10 (15.87%) Analytics
8 10 (15.87%) Operational Stability
8 10 (15.87%) Scrum
9 9 (14.29%) Code Coverage
9 9 (14.29%) Project Management
9 9 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
9 9 (14.29%) SDLC
10 8 (12.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) Java
2 15 (23.81%) Python
3 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
4 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.70%) SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.35%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Grafana
2 6 (9.52%) Kibana
2 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) Commvault
3 2 (3.17%) Foundry
3 2 (3.17%) Palantir
3 2 (3.17%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.17%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) Ariba
4 1 (1.59%) Concur
4 1 (1.59%) HP
4 1 (1.59%) Qualtrics