Community of Practice Contracts in London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 339 355 424
Rank change year-on-year +16 +69 +26
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 14 36 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 30 41
10th Percentile £406 £350 £525
25th Percentile £408 £422 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -14.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £534 £598 £725
90th Percentile £619 £604 £875
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.21 - -
Median hourly rate £30.81 - -
75th Percentile £33.40 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.81 £68.67 £85.00
% change year-on-year -55.14% -19.22% +105.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in London

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in London

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in London

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London 0 1 - - 2
South London - 1 - - 1
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Acrobat
1 3 (21.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Figma
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Local Government
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Visual Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Mobile Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) jQuery
1 1 (7.14%) Plotly
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (28.57%) Interaction Design
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) Infographics
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
4 3 (21.43%) Service Design
4 3 (21.43%) Storytelling
4 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) PMO
3 1 (7.14%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow