Community of Practice Contracts in the East of England

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 78 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £504 - £557
25th Percentile £533 - £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £655
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.00%
75th Percentile - - £704
90th Percentile - - £723
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +3.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the East of England

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the East of England

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the East of England

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £580 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 4
Essex - 1 £485 -
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 2 (50.00%) Logistics
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (25.00%) APMG
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Ariba
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle