Community of Practice Contracts

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Community of Practice skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Community of Practice over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 516 548
Rank change year-on-year +33 +32 +32
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 103 182 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.35% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 131 249
10th Percentile £355 £418 £438
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £584 £663 £650
90th Percentile £625 £750 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.57% -3.24% +17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £52.00 £29.74
25th Percentile - £53.13 £31.50
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year - +32.99% -
75th Percentile - £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile - £79.00 £46.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year - +32.99% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Community of Practice is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
England +54 63 £550 -4.35% 79
UK excluding London +32 63 £500 -1.57% 53
Work from Home +73 51 £497 -11.64% 36
London +67 37 £525 -16.00% 26
Scotland +31 35 £500 +2.25% 1
South East +22 11 £570 -12.31% 5
Midlands +32 7 £563 -0.44% 4
West Midlands +21 7 £563 - 3
South West +10 5 £400 -40.74% 9
Yorkshire +22 4 £575 +27.78% 5
North of England +10 4 £575 +15.00% 31
Northern Ireland - 2 £576 -

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (10.68%) Confluence
2 6 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.94%) CMS
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.97%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP MII
2 1 (0.97%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.27%) AWS
2 15 (14.56%) Azure
3 14 (13.59%) OpenShift
4 11 (10.68%) Amazon S3
4 11 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (10.68%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (10.68%) Serverless
5 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.85%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.88%) GitHub
7 4 (3.88%) Rekognition
7 4 (3.88%) Textract
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (2.91%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.94%) Asana
9 2 (1.94%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (1.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) 5G
1 2 (1.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.83%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.91%) CockroachDB
6 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.91%) Informix
7 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.94%) Metadata
7 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.97%) Power BI
8 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.68%) JIRA
2 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.77%) Git
4 6 (5.83%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.85%) JUnit
5 5 (4.85%) Mockito
5 5 (4.85%) Postman
6 4 (3.88%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.91%) GitLab
7 3 (2.91%) Maven
8 2 (1.94%) Selenium
9 1 (0.97%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.97%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.97%) Subversion
9 1 (0.97%) TestNG
General
1 36 (34.95%) Public Sector
2 29 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.56%) Finance
4 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.83%) Local Government
7 5 (4.85%) Banking
8 4 (3.88%) Aviation
9 3 (2.91%) Front Office
9 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.91%) Legal
9 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.94%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.94%) Publishing
11 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.97%) Marketing
11 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (18.45%) Architect
2 18 (17.48%) Developer
2 18 (17.48%) Lead
3 14 (13.59%) Enterprise Architect
4 11 (10.68%) Senior
5 8 (7.77%) Java Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.83%) Product Manager
8 5 (4.85%) Project Leader
9 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Lead Product Owner
9 4 (3.88%) Product Owner
9 4 (3.88%) Project Officer
9 4 (3.88%) Project Support Officer
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Product Manager
9 4 (3.88%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Support Officer
10 3 (2.91%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) AWS CDK
2 11 (10.68%) REST
3 8 (7.77%) CSS
3 8 (7.77%) HTML
4 7 (6.80%) React
5 6 (5.83%) Node.js
5 6 (5.83%) PySpark
5 6 (5.83%) Spring
5 6 (5.83%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.88%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.88%) Jest
6 4 (3.88%) Playwright
7 3 (2.91%) Drools
7 3 (2.91%) JPA
7 3 (2.91%) JSON
7 3 (2.91%) Swagger
8 2 (1.94%) OAuth
8 2 (1.94%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.94%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.91%) Replication
5 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) Blog
6 1 (0.97%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.97%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.97%) Social Media
6 1 (0.97%) Tandem
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Linux
1 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (72.82%) Agile
2 30 (29.13%) Roadmaps
3 23 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (21.36%) Coaching
5 18 (17.48%) Software Engineering
5 18 (17.48%) User Experience
6 17 (16.50%) Kanban
7 16 (15.53%) CI/CD
7 16 (15.53%) Scrum
8 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
9 13 (12.62%) Code Quality
9 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.65%) Project Management
10 12 (11.65%) Unit Testing
11 11 (10.68%) Analytics
11 11 (10.68%) DevOps
11 11 (10.68%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (10.68%) Product Management
11 11 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (10.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.30%) Java
2 17 (16.50%) Python
3 13 (12.62%) SQL
4 10 (9.71%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.71%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.91%) C#
5 3 (2.91%) Groovy
6 1 (0.97%) Bash
6 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) Degree
2 12 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) ISEB
5 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.53%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.83%) PMO
3 4 (3.88%) GDPR
4 2 (1.94%) QA
5 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (15.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Grafana
2 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.83%) Kibana
4 3 (2.91%) Ansible
4 3 (2.91%) Podman
5 2 (1.94%) Terraform
6 1 (0.97%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle
2 3 (2.91%) SAP
2 3 (2.91%) Splunk
3 2 (1.94%) Commvault
3 2 (1.94%) Foundry
3 2 (1.94%) Palantir
3 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.97%) Ariba
4 1 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (0.97%) Concur
4 1 (0.97%) Google
4 1 (0.97%) HP
4 1 (0.97%) Qualtrics
4 1 (0.97%) Sparx