Community of Practice Job Trends in London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 216 407
Rank change year-on-year -40 +191 +85
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 177 187 91
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 1.50% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.59% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 122 46 48
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £53,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £63,112
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +2.99% -2.90%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £71,156
90th Percentile £83,750 £110,000 £76,966
England median annual salary £68,076 £64,750 £57,965
% change year-on-year +5.14% +11.71% -10.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,284 11,795 20,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.26% 94.72% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,510 7,401 14,891
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,903 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,075 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in London

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Community of Practice in London

Community of Practice
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Central London +6 6 £88,750 -11.25%
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.52%) Confluence
3 6 (3.39%) Apache
4 4 (2.26%) SAS
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.63%) Azure
2 76 (42.94%) AWS
3 62 (35.03%) GCP
4 19 (10.73%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.78%) Google Analytics
6 9 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (4.52%) Figma
8 7 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.95%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 7 (3.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.39%) Serverless
10 4 (2.26%) GitHub
11 3 (1.69%) Datadog
11 3 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.34%) Network Security
2 3 (1.69%) DNS
2 3 (1.69%) Firewall
2 3 (1.69%) VPN
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.47%) Power BI
2 9 (5.08%) Metadata
3 3 (1.69%) Airbyte
3 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.56%) Looker
4 1 (0.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 9 (5.08%) JIRA
2 5 (2.82%) Axure RP
2 5 (2.82%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.13%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 107 (60.45%) Public Sector
2 104 (58.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 88 (49.72%) Law
4 75 (42.37%) Finance
5 53 (29.94%) Social Skills
6 36 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (18.64%) Banking
8 28 (15.82%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (11.30%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Back Office
10 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.69%) Polish Language
10 3 (1.69%) Retail
11 2 (1.13%) Legal
11 2 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 49 (27.68%) Senior
2 35 (19.77%) Architect
3 31 (17.51%) Software Engineer
4 27 (15.25%) Analyst
5 23 (12.99%) Senior Manager
6 21 (11.86%) Delivery Manager
7 19 (10.73%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 19 (10.73%) Business Analyst
8 18 (10.17%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
9 16 (9.04%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 14 (7.91%) Developer
10 14 (7.91%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
11 13 (7.34%) Security Architect
11 13 (7.34%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (6.78%) Senior Business Analyst
13 11 (6.21%) Business Architect
14 9 (5.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 8 (4.52%) Designer
16 7 (3.95%) Data Engineer
16 7 (3.95%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.08%) LangChain
1 9 (5.08%) LangGraph
1 9 (5.08%) PyTorch
1 9 (5.08%) scikit-learn
1 9 (5.08%) TensorFlow
2 8 (4.52%) .NET
2 8 (4.52%) Lightning Web Components
2 8 (4.52%) REST
2 8 (4.52%) SOAP
2 8 (4.52%) Visualforce
3 7 (3.95%) HTML5 Canvas
3 7 (3.95%) Middleware
4 5 (2.82%) CSS
4 5 (2.82%) HTML
5 3 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.69%) Spring
6 2 (1.13%) Kafka
6 2 (1.13%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.56%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.56%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 70 (39.55%) Product Ownership
2 36 (20.34%) Cloud Native
3 22 (12.43%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (6.21%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.56%) NHS
7 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (73.45%) Technology Strategy
2 111 (62.71%) Agile
3 56 (31.64%) Roadmaps
4 53 (29.94%) Scrum
5 44 (24.86%) IT Strategy
6 42 (23.73%) Software Engineering
7 41 (23.16%) Project Delivery
8 38 (21.47%) Collaborative Culture
8 38 (21.47%) Computer Science
8 38 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (20.34%) Technical Leadership
10 33 (18.64%) CI/CD
11 32 (18.08%) Technical Debt
12 31 (17.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (15.82%) Mentoring
14 25 (14.12%) TOGAF
15 24 (13.56%) Agile Coaching
15 24 (13.56%) Analytical Thinking
15 24 (13.56%) Kanban
15 24 (13.56%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.77%) Java
2 29 (16.38%) Python
3 19 (10.73%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.47%) SQL
5 8 (4.52%) Apex Code
5 8 (4.52%) C#
6 4 (2.26%) Bash
7 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.56%) Ruby
8 1 (0.56%) SOQL
8 1 (0.56%) SOSL
8 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (61.58%) Degree
2 105 (59.32%) Security Cleared
3 98 (55.37%) SC Cleared
4 35 (19.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (7.34%) CISM
5 13 (7.34%) CISSP
6 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) APMG
9 1 (0.56%) MBA
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 13 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (7.34%) NCSC
1 13 (7.34%) NIST
2 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.82%) WCAG
4 3 (1.69%) PMO
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.39%) Terraform
2 3 (1.69%) Ansible
2 3 (1.69%) Grafana
2 3 (1.69%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.34%) Google
3 8 (4.52%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.95%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.82%) Adobe
6 3 (1.69%) Databricks
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
8 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.56%) Informatica
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) Splunk
8 1 (0.56%) Talend