Community of Practice Contracts in the Midlands

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 109 127 156
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 +27
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 2 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.26% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £556 £556
25th Percentile £513 £605 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £800 £565
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +41.59% +0.89%
75th Percentile £538 £925 £588
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +3.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the Midlands

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the Midlands

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 2 £525 -34.38% 5
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow Manager
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (50.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow