Community of Practice Contracts

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 487 514 542
Rank change year-on-year +27 +28 +41
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 111 206 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 148 228
10th Percentile £400 £450 £444
25th Percentile £456 £493 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +2.27% +20.88%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.53% -0.10% +20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - - £26.86
25th Percentile £66.83 - £28.13
Median hourly rate £68.67 £85.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +128.63% -17.38%
75th Percentile £70.50 - £44.03
90th Percentile - - £46.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.67 £85.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -19.22% +105.54% -8.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
UK excluding London +27 70 £506 -3.53% 45
England +57 63 £550 -4.35% 57
Work from Home +81 51 £500 -11.31% 30
Scotland +21 39 £500 +0.76% 6
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
Wales +14 3 £650 +4.04% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £576 -
Yorkshire +15 1 £575 +27.78% 3
North of England +14 1 £575 +15.00% 21

Community of Practice
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 15 (13.51%) Confluence
2 6 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) SAP MII
2 1 (0.90%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.73%) AWS
2 22 (19.82%) Azure
3 15 (13.51%) OpenShift
4 13 (11.71%) Amazon S3
4 13 (11.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (11.71%) Serverless
5 11 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.31%) GitHub
7 5 (4.50%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.60%) Rekognition
8 4 (3.60%) Textract
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.70%) GCP
9 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) 5G
1 2 (1.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.70%) CockroachDB
6 3 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.70%) Informix
7 2 (1.80%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.80%) Metadata
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) JIRA
2 11 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.31%) Git
4 6 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.50%) JUnit
5 5 (4.50%) Mockito
5 5 (4.50%) Postman
6 4 (3.60%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.70%) GitLab
8 2 (1.80%) Maven
8 2 (1.80%) Selenium
9 1 (0.90%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.90%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.90%) Subversion
9 1 (0.90%) TestNG
General
1 39 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 30 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.81%) Finance
4 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.41%) Local Government
6 5 (4.50%) Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Aviation
7 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Legal
7 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Front Office
8 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.80%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Publishing
9 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (19.82%) Architect
2 21 (18.92%) Developer
3 18 (16.22%) Lead
4 15 (13.51%) Senior
5 14 (12.61%) Enterprise Architect
6 7 (6.31%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.31%) Java Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Product Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Project Leader
8 5 (4.50%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Project Officer
9 4 (3.60%) Project Support Officer
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Product Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) AWS CDK
2 13 (11.71%) REST
3 11 (9.91%) CSS
3 11 (9.91%) HTML
4 10 (9.01%) React
5 8 (7.21%) Spring
5 8 (7.21%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.41%) Node.js
6 6 (5.41%) PySpark
7 4 (3.60%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.60%) Jest
7 4 (3.60%) OAuth
7 4 (3.60%) OAuth2
7 4 (3.60%) Playwright
7 4 (3.60%) Spring Security
8 3 (2.70%) JPA
8 3 (2.70%) Spring MVC
8 3 (2.70%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (2.70%) Thymeleaf
9 2 (1.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.70%) Replication
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Blog
6 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.90%) Social Media
6 1 (0.90%) Tandem
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Linux
1 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (72.97%) Agile
2 37 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (22.52%) CI/CD
5 23 (20.72%) Scrum
6 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (18.92%) Coaching
7 21 (18.92%) User Experience
8 19 (17.12%) DevOps
9 18 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.32%) IT Strategy
10 17 (15.32%) Kanban
10 17 (15.32%) Technology Strategy
11 16 (14.41%) Code Quality
12 15 (13.51%) Analytics
12 15 (13.51%) Decision-Making
12 15 (13.51%) Unit Testing
13 14 (12.61%) Test Automation
14 13 (11.71%) Microservices
14 13 (11.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) Java
2 18 (16.22%) Python
3 14 (12.61%) SQL
4 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.70%) C#
7 2 (1.80%) Groovy
8 1 (0.90%) Bash
8 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.61%) Degree
3 13 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.80%) ISEB
5 2 (1.80%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 6 (5.41%) PMO
4 4 (3.60%) GDPR
5 2 (1.80%) QA
6 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (15.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.61%) Grafana
2 9 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.21%) Terraform
4 6 (5.41%) Kibana
5 3 (2.70%) Ansible
6 2 (1.80%) Podman
7 1 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (7.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.41%) Oracle
3 4 (3.60%) Google
4 3 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.70%) Foundry
4 3 (2.70%) Palantir
4 3 (2.70%) SAP
5 2 (1.80%) Commvault
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.80%) Splunk
6 1 (0.90%) Ariba
6 1 (0.90%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.90%) Cadence
6 1 (0.90%) Concur
6 1 (0.90%) HP
6 1 (0.90%) Qualtrics
6 1 (0.90%) Sparx