Community of Practice Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 275 294 376
Rank change year-on-year +19 +82 +90
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 29 51 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.38% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 74
10th Percentile £404 £350 £455
25th Percentile £416 £441 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -11.11% +1.35%
75th Percentile £525 £507 £647
90th Percentile £645 £600 £746
UK median daily rate £492 £506 £563
% change year-on-year -2.77% -10.04% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.21 - -
Median hourly rate £30.81 - £85.00
75th Percentile £33.40 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Community of Practice
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Community of Practice trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Community of Practice over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) GeoServer
2 1 (3.45%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.34%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.45%) Figma
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) GIS
3 1 (3.45%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (51.72%) Finance
2 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
3 12 (41.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (27.59%) Banking
4 8 (27.59%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) JavaScript Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) Python Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) GCP Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) PMO Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Service Designer
6 1 (3.45%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) React
2 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.90%) PostGIS
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) Flask
4 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.45%) Next.js
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) Plotly
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Management Information System
2 8 (27.59%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Hackathon
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Agile
2 11 (37.93%) Decision-Making
3 10 (34.48%) Machine Learning
3 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (31.03%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (31.03%) Risk Management
5 8 (27.59%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (27.59%) Data Science
5 8 (27.59%) Data Security
5 8 (27.59%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 8 (27.59%) Experimental Design
5 8 (27.59%) Natural Language Processing
5 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
5 8 (27.59%) Statistical Analysis
5 8 (27.59%) Task Automation
6 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
7 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.69%) User Experience
8 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 5 (17.24%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
1 12 (41.38%) TypeScript
2 11 (37.93%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.45%) SOQL
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.34%) PMO
3 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Databricks
1 1 (3.45%) Google
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
1 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow