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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 327 374
Rank change year-on-year +5 +47 -3
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 46 65 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.38% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 50 50
10th Percentile £402 £400 £390
25th Percentile £481 £457 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +1.52% -7.94%
75th Percentile £580 £568 £534
90th Percentile £593 £623 £579
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile - - £53.13
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £30.81 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.94%

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 13,228 17,186 20,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.35% 82.85% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 10,160 13,996
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,179 2,076 1,267
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.52 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £16.98
Median hourly rate £24.34 £38.12 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% -0.60% +78.37%
75th Percentile £51.05 £62.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.70 £73.50 £75.57
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.05%

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 14 July 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 14 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
Scotland -11 30 £490 -0.81% 15
South West +38 7 £563 +40.63% 9
North of England +2 4 £580 +3.11% 31
North West +7 3 £580 - 11
East of England - 3 £580 - 5
South East +33 2 £488 -18.75% 13
West Midlands 0 2 £525 -6.67% 4
Midlands -3 2 £525 -6.67% 6
Yorkshire -3 1 £600 +6.67% 16
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 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) GeoServer
1 1 (2.17%) TPMS
1 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (19.57%) BlazeMeter
3 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Azure
4 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) Figma
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Apache Cassandra
1 9 (19.57%) MongoDB
1 9 (19.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
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 10 (21.74%) JUnit
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Mockito
4 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.17%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Maven
General
1 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 24 (52.17%) Finance
3 12 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (21.74%) Banking
4 10 (21.74%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.17%) Back Office
9 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) JavaScript Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Python Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Java Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Core Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Head of Information
8 2 (4.35%) Head of Information Management
8 2 (4.35%) Head of Knowledge Management
8 2 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) CSS
2 11 (23.91%) React
2 11 (23.91%) Spring
3 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.52%) HTML
4 3 (6.52%) jQuery
4 3 (6.52%) Kafka
4 3 (6.52%) RESTful
4 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.17%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.17%) Next.js
6 1 (2.17%) Node.js
6 1 (2.17%) PostGIS
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 12 (26.09%) Algorithms
3 10 (21.74%) Management Information System
4 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.35%) Life Science
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 22 (47.83%) Agile
4 20 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
6 16 (34.78%) Decision-Making
7 15 (32.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (32.61%) Data Security
8 14 (30.43%) Software Engineering
9 13 (28.26%) Visualisation
10 12 (26.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 11 (23.91%) Critical Thinking
11 11 (23.91%) Data Science
11 11 (23.91%) Experimental Design
11 11 (23.91%) Microservices
11 11 (23.91%) Natural Language Processing
11 11 (23.91%) Operational Stability
11 11 (23.91%) Statistical Analysis
11 11 (23.91%) Task Automation
11 11 (23.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Java
2 25 (54.35%) JavaScript
3 22 (47.83%) TypeScript
4 16 (34.78%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.52%) Degree
1 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Grafana
2 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.17%) Puppet
3 1 (2.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Dynatrace
1 9 (19.57%) Splunk
2 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.52%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Ariba
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.17%) Adobe
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce