Community of Practice Job Trends, Salaries & Related Skills in Dorset

Communities of Practice (CoP)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 12 Jan 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	48	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice	0	2	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset	-	0.52%	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	-	0.57%	-
Number of salaries quoted	0	1	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	£42,000	-
South West median annual salary	£65,513	£43,491	£48,423
% change year-on-year	+50.63%	-10.18%	+1.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Community of Practice falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	356	349	332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset	77.90%	90.89%	89.97%
Number of salaries quoted	266	184	282
10^th Percentile	£27,707	£35,000	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£29,000	£42,344	£42,654
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£37,750	£50,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	-24.50%	-9.09%	+12.24%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£57,813	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£63,750	£75,000
South West median annual salary	£50,000	£54,439	£52,500
% change year-on-year	-8.15%	+3.69%	+3.35%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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