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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 486 551
Rank change year-on-year +12 +65 -32
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 29 74 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.24% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 54 54
10th Percentile £423 £397 £413
25th Percentile £481 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £600 £638 £746
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.20% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile £28.21 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £30.81 - £55.00
75th Percentile £33.40 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £30.81 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.94%

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 24,672 31,000 42,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 85.71% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,837 20,180 29,760
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 2,113 1,505
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.18 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.27 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +4 11 £475 -9.52% 66
South West +47 7 £563 +40.63% 7
North of England +3 5 £580 +3.11% 25
North West +6 4 £580 - 11
East of England - 3 £580 - 5
South East +25 2 £488 -18.75% 13
Midlands -4 1 £525 -6.67% 6
West Midlands -8 1 £525 -6.67% 4
Yorkshire -11 1 £600 +6.67% 11
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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (10.34%) Acrobat
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Figma
3 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) Snowflake
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Back Office
7 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (3.45%) Local Government
7 1 (3.45%) Military
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Designer
1 5 (17.24%) Senior
2 4 (13.79%) Lead
2 4 (13.79%) Visual Designer
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Data Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Head of Information
4 2 (6.90%) Head of Information Management
4 2 (6.90%) Head of Knowledge Management
4 2 (6.90%) Mobile Designer
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
1 4 (13.79%) CSS
1 4 (13.79%) HTML
1 4 (13.79%) jQuery
1 4 (13.79%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Django
2 1 (3.45%) Flask
2 1 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) NumPy
2 1 (3.45%) Pyramid
2 1 (3.45%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.45%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
2 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.34%) Life Science
4 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.45%) CMDB
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Agile
2 11 (37.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Analytics
4 6 (20.69%) User Experience
5 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) ITSM
5 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
5 5 (17.24%) Operational Stability
5 5 (17.24%) Quality Management
5 5 (17.24%) Service Design
5 5 (17.24%) Service Management
5 5 (17.24%) Storytelling
5 5 (17.24%) UX Design
5 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.90%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Accessibility
2 5 (17.24%) QA
3 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
4 3 (10.34%) PMO
5 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 4 (13.79%) Adobe
3 4 (13.79%) SAP
4 3 (10.34%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Ariba
6 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce