Community of Practice Contracts in Central London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Community of Practice skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Community of Practice over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 128 164
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 +15
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 1 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.050% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £534
25th Percentile - £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% -27.42%
75th Percentile - £678 £590
90th Percentile - £751 £643
London median daily rate £453 £538 £625
% change year-on-year -15.67% -14.00% +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in Central London

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in Central London

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +6 1 - - 2
Community of Practice
London

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SLA