Community of Practice Contracts with Work from Home Options

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 376 466
Rank change year-on-year +82 +90 -47
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 51 101 167
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 74 140
10th Percentile £350 £455 £440
25th Percentile £441 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £555
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.35% +24.72%
75th Percentile £507 £647 £650
90th Percentile £600 £746 £813
UK median daily rate £506 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -10.04% +2.27% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +214.81% -
UK median hourly rate £68.67 £85.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -19.22% +105.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Community of Practice
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Community of Practice trend for jobs with a WFH option

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Community of Practice.

Community of Practice daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Community of Practice over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Community of Practice daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Community of Practice
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Community of Practice.

Community of Practice hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) Amazon S3
2 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
2 12 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (23.53%) OpenShift
2 12 (23.53%) Serverless
3 5 (9.80%) Azure
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.84%) Rekognition
4 4 (7.84%) Textract
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (3.92%) Asana
6 2 (3.92%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (3.92%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (3.92%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (3.92%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.88%) Informix
6 2 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.92%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.92%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Cucumber
1 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 4 (7.84%) JUnit
2 4 (7.84%) Mockito
3 3 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.96%) Git
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) Subversion
4 1 (1.96%) TestNG
General
1 17 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.92%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Aviation
6 1 (1.96%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Developer
2 11 (21.57%) Lead
3 9 (17.65%) Architect
4 7 (13.73%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior
7 3 (5.88%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Business Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead Product Owner
8 2 (3.92%) PMO Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) Project Support Officer
8 2 (3.92%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) AWS CDK
2 7 (13.73%) REST
2 7 (13.73%) Spring
2 7 (13.73%) Spring Boot
3 5 (9.80%) PySpark
3 5 (9.80%) React
4 4 (7.84%) CSS
4 4 (7.84%) HTML
4 4 (7.84%) OAuth
4 4 (7.84%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.84%) Spring Security
5 3 (5.88%) Spring MVC
5 3 (5.88%) Spring Web Flow
5 3 (5.88%) Thymeleaf
6 2 (3.92%) JPA
6 2 (3.92%) Node.js
6 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Replication
3 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.96%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) Agile
2 21 (41.18%) Roadmaps
3 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (25.49%) Coaching
4 13 (25.49%) User Experience
5 12 (23.53%) Scrum
6 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
7 10 (19.61%) Code Coverage
7 10 (19.61%) Code Quality
7 10 (19.61%) DevOps
7 10 (19.61%) Kanban
7 10 (19.61%) Requirements Analysis
8 9 (17.65%) Microservices
8 9 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 8 (15.69%) Architecture Roadmap
9 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.69%) ETL
9 8 (15.69%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) Java
2 15 (29.41%) Python
3 12 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 8 (15.69%) SQL
5 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.96%) Bash
6 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) DBS Check
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.96%) ISEB
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.84%) PMO
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) QA
5 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Grafana
2 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Kibana
4 2 (3.92%) Terraform
5 1 (1.96%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle
2 2 (3.92%) Commvault
2 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.96%) Ariba
3 1 (1.96%) Concur
3 1 (1.96%) HP
3 1 (1.96%) SAP