Community of Practice Contracts in the North West

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 132 147
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 +33
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.037% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.044% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £446 - £392
25th Percentile £496 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,890 2,277 2,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.78% 84.36% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 1,400 1,923
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
75th Percentile £564 £582 £588
90th Percentile £671 £672 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 254 159
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £29.27 £27.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.41% -7.85% +19.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.23 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the North West

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the North West

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in the North West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in the North West

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the North West

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Manchester +17 2 £425 - 8
Cheshire - 2 £580 - 2
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
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%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Life Science
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%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) SIPOC
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) Ariba
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft