Community of Practice Contracts in Manchester

Communities of Practice (CoP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 91 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% 0.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £580 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 876 1,112 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.69% 86.88% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 724 1,182
10th Percentile £306 £325 £307
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £596 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 59 57
10th Percentile £16.79 £14.00 £14.39
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £77.63 £76.20 £64.65
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +26.58%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in Manchester

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in Manchester

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

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) SIPOC
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP