Community of Practice Contracts in Edinburgh

Communities of Practice (CoP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 57 59 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +25
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 10 13 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% 1.60% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.81% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 29
10th Percentile £374 £263 £448
25th Percentile £459 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £450 £499
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -9.73% +6.06%
75th Percentile £496 £506 £523
90th Percentile £557 £508 £638
Scotland median daily rate £480 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.21% -5.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in Edinburgh

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in Edinburgh

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in Edinburgh

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (10.00%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (10.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Governance Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) PMO Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Officer
2 1 (10.00%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (30.00%) PostGIS
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) Next.js
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 5 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 5 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 5 (50.00%) User Experience
3 4 (40.00%) Coaching
3 4 (40.00%) Code Coverage
3 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Kanban
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (40.00%) PMO
2 3 (30.00%) QA
3 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow