Community of Practice Contracts in the City of London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 123 164
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +4
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 1 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - £534
25th Percentile - £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -27.42%
75th Percentile - £588 £590
90th Percentile - £618 £643
Central London median daily rate - £575 £563
% change year-on-year - +2.22% -27.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the City of London

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the City of London

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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