Community of Practice Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 75 109
Rank change year-on-year -31 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.10% 0.41% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.47% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £530 £504 -
25th Percentile £548 £533 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £580 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% +3.11% -14.12%
75th Percentile £673 - £569
90th Percentile £697 - -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

All Process & 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 1,568 855 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.40% 87.51% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 456 788
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £356 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% -0.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £691 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 171 532
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.69 £20.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £53.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.49% +39.03% +48.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in the East of England

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Community of Practice.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

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

Community of Practice
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Community of Practice.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Community of Practice

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 30 March 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
Essex -5 1 £535 +10.31%
Hertfordshire - 1 £675 - 1
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PgMP
2 1 (50.00%) PMP
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cadence