Community of Practice Contracts in Scotland

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 85 90 113
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 31 39 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.91% 1.76% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.99% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 43
10th Percentile £408 £412 £420
25th Percentile £471 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +1.21% -5.90%
75th Percentile £494 £506 £530
90th Percentile £653 £589 £635
UK median daily rate £492 £506 £563
% change year-on-year -2.77% -10.04% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +8 21 £480 -4.00% 16
Edinburgh +2 10 £487 +8.17% 1
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) GeoServer
2 1 (3.23%) TPMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (32.26%) AWS
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 3 (9.68%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JUnit
2 3 (9.68%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 20 (64.52%) Finance
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Banking
2 9 (29.03%) Investment Banking
2 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Financial Institution
3 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 8 (25.81%) JavaScript Engineer
1 8 (25.81%) Python Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Compliance Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) PMO Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) React
2 4 (12.90%) AWS CDK
2 4 (12.90%) Spring
3 3 (9.68%) CSS
3 3 (9.68%) PostGIS
4 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.45%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (3.23%) Next.js
5 1 (3.23%) Node.js
5 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (25.81%) Management Information System
3 7 (22.58%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.23%) PKI
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
1 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (48.39%) Agile
2 15 (48.39%) Data Security
3 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (38.71%) Machine Learning
5 11 (35.48%) Critical Thinking
6 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
6 9 (29.03%) Data Science
6 9 (29.03%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 9 (29.03%) Decision-Making
6 9 (29.03%) Experimental Design
6 9 (29.03%) Natural Language Processing
6 9 (29.03%) Risk Management
6 9 (29.03%) Statistical Analysis
6 9 (29.03%) Task Automation
7 6 (19.35%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (19.35%) DevOps
7 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (19.35%) Event-Driven
7 6 (19.35%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Java
2 15 (48.39%) Python
3 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
3 14 (45.16%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) AWS Certification
1 5 (16.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Accessibility
1 4 (12.90%) PMO
2 3 (9.68%) QA
3 2 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Dynatrace
1 3 (9.68%) Splunk
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow