Community of Practice Contracts in Wales

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 56 77
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.76% 0.79% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.91% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £532 -
25th Percentile - £562 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +19.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £687 £538
90th Percentile - £717 -
UK median daily rate £506 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -10.04% +2.27% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
UK median hourly rate £68.67 £85.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -19.22% +105.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 311 549 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.73% 86.46% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 421 618
10th Percentile £168 £183 £202
25th Percentile £356 £325 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.48% +8.24%
75th Percentile £571 £573 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -16.38% +15.38%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in Wales

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in Wales

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
South Wales +16 3 £650 +4.04% 1
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Line Management
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace