Community of Practice Contracts in England

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 452 480 520
Rank change year-on-year +28 +40 +20
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 33 62 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 48 91
10th Percentile £409 £382 £450
25th Percentile £474 £441 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +3.14%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £675
90th Percentile £600 £706 £775
UK median daily rate £492 £506 £563
% change year-on-year -2.77% -10.04% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.21 £66.83 -
Median hourly rate £30.81 £68.67 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.14% -19.22% +105.54%
75th Percentile £33.40 £70.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.81 £68.67 £85.00
% change year-on-year -55.14% -19.22% +105.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in England

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +16 14 £453 -15.67% 44
South West +46 5 £575 +43.75% 13
North of England +22 4 £580 +0.87% 20
East of England - 4 £580 - 4
North West - 3 £580 - 13
Midlands +18 2 £525 -34.38% 7
West Midlands +10 2 £525 -34.38% 5
South East +34 1 - - 14
Yorkshire +8 1 £600 +4.35% 5
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Acrobat
1 3 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.12%) Figma
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) IaaS
5 2 (6.06%) PaaS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
1 5 (15.15%) Power BI
2 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.03%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.12%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.09%) Military
6 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.03%) Back Office
7 1 (3.03%) Local Government
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Senior
2 5 (15.15%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Designer
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Visual Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Head of Information Management
5 2 (6.06%) Head of Knowledge Management
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Mobile Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Platform Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
1 4 (12.12%) CSS
1 4 (12.12%) HTML
1 4 (12.12%) jQuery
1 4 (12.12%) RESTful
2 2 (6.06%) React
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.03%) Flask
3 1 (3.03%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) Plotly
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) Quarkus
3 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) Life Science
2 3 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) CMDB
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Hackathon
4 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Agile
2 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
4 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
4 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) User Experience
6 5 (15.15%) Analytics
6 5 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
6 5 (15.15%) ITSM
6 5 (15.15%) Service Management
6 5 (15.15%) UX Design
6 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.12%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
3 2 (6.06%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
1 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) APMG
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 3 (9.09%) PMO
4 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.03%) Puppet
2 1 (3.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) Adobe
4 2 (6.06%) Ariba
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks