Community of Practice Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 112 128
Rank change year-on-year -58 +16 +41
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 11 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.28% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £241 - -
25th Percentile £254 £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £525 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -30.00% +32.74%
75th Percentile £470 £538 £925
90th Percentile £511 - -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

All Process & 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 3,279 1,661 2,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.58% 88.49% 82.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,074 1,132 1,534
10th Percentile £291 £201 £230
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £651 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 76 180
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.12
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.68 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.17 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.57% -4.39% +7.28%
75th Percentile £27.31 £28.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £64.68 £35.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Community of Practice relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Community of Practice.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 30 March 2026. 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 -47 10 £443 -15.71% 5
East Midlands - 1 - -
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Pentaho
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Data Integration
2 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Coaching
4 4 (36.36%) Data Acquisition
4 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) People Management
5 3 (27.27%) Practice Management
5 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Compliance Audit
6 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
7 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Bash
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) PMO
2 2 (18.18%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cloudera
1 6 (54.55%) Informatica
1 6 (54.55%) Talend
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk