Community of Practice Contracts in the UK excluding London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 290 331 355
Rank change year-on-year +41 +24 +45
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 46 68 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.39% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 56 87
10th Percentile £422 £400 £413
25th Percentile £476 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £503 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -2.33% -1.90%
75th Percentile £580 £593 £597
90th Percentile £609 £669 £700
UK median daily rate £492 £506 £563
% change year-on-year -2.77% -10.04% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £68.67 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.22% +105.54%
UK median hourly rate £30.81 £68.67 £85.00
% change year-on-year -55.14% -19.22% +105.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +5 31 £480 -4.00% 25
South West +46 5 £575 +43.75% 32
North of England +22 4 £580 +0.87% 57
East of England - 4 £580 - 28
North West - 3 £580 - 30
Midlands +18 2 £525 -34.38% 37
West Midlands +10 2 £525 -34.38% 21
South East +34 1 - - 54
Yorkshire +8 1 £600 +4.35% 20
Northern Ireland -9 1 £450 -21.91% 2
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.17%) TPMS
2 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
2 10 (21.74%) Azure
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.70%) Serverless
4 3 (6.52%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.17%) GIS
3 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JUnit
2 4 (8.70%) GitLab
3 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.35%) Mockito
5 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.17%) Git
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Maven
General
1 29 (63.04%) Social Skills
2 26 (56.52%) Finance
3 10 (21.74%) Banking
4 9 (19.57%) Investment Banking
4 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.17%) Back Office
8 1 (2.17%) Marketing
8 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) JavaScript Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Python Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Compliance Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Head of Information
7 2 (4.35%) Head of Information Management
7 2 (4.35%) Head of Knowledge Management
7 2 (4.35%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) CSS
2 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
2 5 (10.87%) React
2 5 (10.87%) Spring
3 4 (8.70%) AWS CDK
4 3 (6.52%) HTML
4 3 (6.52%) jQuery
4 3 (6.52%) PostGIS
4 3 (6.52%) RESTful
4 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.35%) REST
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.17%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (2.17%) Next.js
6 1 (2.17%) Node.js
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.17%) PySpark
6 1 (2.17%) Quarkus
6 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (17.39%) Management Information System
3 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
4 6 (13.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.35%) Life Science
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (41.30%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (32.61%) Data Security
4 15 (32.61%) Machine Learning
5 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
6 12 (26.09%) Decision-Making
7 11 (23.91%) Critical Thinking
8 9 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (19.57%) Data Science
8 9 (19.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (19.57%) Experimental Design
8 9 (19.57%) Natural Language Processing
8 9 (19.57%) Risk Management
8 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
8 9 (19.57%) Statistical Analysis
8 9 (19.57%) Task Automation
8 9 (19.57%) User Experience
9 7 (15.22%) Unit Testing
9 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Java
2 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
3 16 (34.78%) Python
4 14 (30.43%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.35%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
1 5 (10.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.17%) APMG
3 1 (2.17%) IIBA
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.87%) PMO
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Grafana
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
3 1 (2.17%) Rancher
3 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.52%) SAP
2 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 2 (4.35%) Ariba
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Qualtrics
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce