Community of Practice Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Communities of Practice (CoP)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 48 -
Rank change year-on-year -48 - -
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.45% 0.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £433 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £487 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £445 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -25.83% +4.35% +27.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,000 353 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.91% 94.89% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 224 243
10th Percentile £363 £223 £324
25th Percentile £418 £387 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +0.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.05% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.36 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +4.22% +65.71%
75th Percentile £24.29 £18.60 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.76 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in South Yorkshire

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Sheffield -49 5 £443 -26.17% 3
Community of Practice
Yorkshire

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Matrix Organization
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk