Community of Practice Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Communities of Practice (CoP)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 69 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.20% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £240 - -
25th Percentile £251 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £470 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £443 £525 £750
% change year-on-year -15.71% -30.00% +30.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 492 140 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.68% 95.89% 59.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 87 35
10th Percentile £359 £304 £284
25th Percentile £408 £401 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -25.93%
75th Percentile £525 £527 £500
90th Percentile £562 £551 £528
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £19.08 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile £32.30 - £11.32
90th Percentile £57.20 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% +26.98%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in Shropshire

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire 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
Telford -39 7 £425 - 2
Community of Practice
West Midlands

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (57.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Pentaho
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Data Acquisition
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) People Management
2 3 (42.86%) Practice Management
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Resource Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Compliance Audit
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cloudera
1 4 (57.14%) Informatica
1 4 (57.14%) Talend
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) SAP