Community of Practice Job Trends in Edinburgh

Communities of Practice (CoP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 83 98
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +54
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 6 13 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.59% 1.10% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.15% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £46,744 £50,248
25th Percentile - £47,401 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £51,937 £64,704
Median % change year-on-year - -19.73% -50.53%
75th Percentile - £58,664 £123,452
90th Percentile - £60,635 £137,913
Scotland median annual salary - £54,252 £64,704
% change year-on-year - -16.15% -50.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 885 1,126 947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.43% 95.59% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 377 429 759
10th Percentile £25,900 £36,250 £31,650
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -8.64%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Community of Practice.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Community of Practice within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
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Community of Practice
Scotland

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
1 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
1 4 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (66.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 4 (66.67%) Coaching
1 4 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) PLM
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Apex Code
1 2 (33.33%) SOQL
1 2 (33.33%) SOSL
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk