Community of Practice Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Communities of Practice (CoP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.12% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £362 - -
90th Percentile £363 - -
South East median daily rate £575 - £545
% change year-on-year - - -16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £67.93
25th Percentile - - £69.58
Median hourly rate - - £72.33
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £72.33

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Community of Practice falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,448 1,198 1,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.86% 92.72% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 655 1,009
10th Percentile £292 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.65%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 35 94
10th Percentile £16.67 £27.35 £20.49
25th Percentile £20.79 £47.06 £42.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +0.32% -5.22%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.17 £70.06
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.65 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Community of Practice relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Community of Practice.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. 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
Wokingham - 2 £359 -
Community of Practice
South East

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Balsamiq
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) User Research
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared