Community of Practice Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 86 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.16% 0.087% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £470 - -
England median daily rate £525 £488 £580
% change year-on-year +7.69% -15.95% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,662 987 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.12% 85.98% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 589 1,015
10th Percentile £251 £237 £300
25th Percentile £384 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 29 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.06 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% -0.30%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.33 £64.33 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Community of Practice relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Community of Practice.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
West Yorkshire -11 3 £450 -18.18% 4
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Apigee
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace