Community of Practice Contract Job Trends in Central London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 124 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% - -
London median daily rate £448 £450 £600
% change year-on-year -0.56% -25.00% -4.00%

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 1,800 2,142 2,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.70% 91.97% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,383 2,028
10th Percentile £315 £363 £356
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 17
10th Percentile £18.69 £17.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.83 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +34.62% -38.10%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £119.65 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.03% -6.67% +3.45%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

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 21 September 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 +7 2 £420 -30.00% 4
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Design Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) IIBA
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) SLA