Community of Practice Contracts in the North of England

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 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 162 184 199
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 4 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.021% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.024% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 17
10th Percentile - - £392
25th Percentile - £563 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +21.05% -
75th Percentile £590 £588 £550
90th Percentile £596 - £616
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +3.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the North of England

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the North of England

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the North of England

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
North West - 3 £580 - 13
Yorkshire +8 1 £600 +4.35% 5
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (75.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Logistics
1 3 (75.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (50.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) SIPOC
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) Ariba