Community of Practice Jobs in Scotland

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Community of Practice skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Community of Practice over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 17 186
Rank change year-on-year -56 +169 +39
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 114 1,048 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.49% 16.29% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 18.36% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £42,663 £55,400 £43,453
25th Percentile £42,907 £57,575 £55,402
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,564 £65,000 £102,698
Median % change year-on-year -31.44% -36.71% +86.72%
75th Percentile £46,657 £71,625 £119,168
90th Percentile £47,163 £79,450 -
UK median annual salary £63,000 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.69% -10.82% +9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,852 5,708 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.38% 88.72% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 2,443 2,042
10th Percentile £28,350 £28,300 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £70,600
90th Percentile £80,750 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in Scotland.

Salary trend for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -6 106 - - 9
Edinburgh +27 8 £44,564 -28.01% 5
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 16 (14.04%) Apache Spark
2 13 (11.40%) Apache
3 8 (7.02%) Camunda
3 8 (7.02%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.51%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.98%) AWS
2 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
3 9 (7.89%) Azure
3 9 (7.89%) GCP
4 7 (6.14%) npm
4 7 (6.14%) Yarn
5 5 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.39%) Serverless
6 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.63%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (2.63%) Dagster
7 3 (2.63%) GitHub
7 3 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.63%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.63%) Prefect
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) DNS
1 3 (2.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.18%) NoSQL
2 16 (14.04%) Big Data
3 12 (10.53%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.02%) RDBMS
5 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.39%) Apache Hudi
6 5 (4.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (4.39%) Parquet
7 4 (3.51%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (3.51%) KDB
7 4 (3.51%) Kdb+
8 3 (2.63%) Data Mart
8 3 (2.63%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.63%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.88%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) JUnit
2 8 (7.02%) webpack
3 7 (6.14%) Cypress.io
3 7 (6.14%) Vite
4 6 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.39%) Git
5 5 (4.39%) JIRA
5 5 (4.39%) Maven
6 4 (3.51%) Subversion
7 3 (2.63%) GitLab
8 1 (0.88%) Ant
8 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.88%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.88%) Protractor
8 1 (0.88%) Selenium
8 1 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 106 (92.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 104 (91.23%) Finance
2 104 (91.23%) Law
3 55 (48.25%) Banking
4 44 (38.60%) Marketing
5 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (11.40%) Social Skills
7 8 (7.02%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.39%) Legal
9 4 (3.51%) Private Banking
10 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 104 (91.23%) Software Engineer
2 50 (43.86%) Java Engineer
2 50 (43.86%) Java Software Engineer
3 28 (24.56%) Lead
3 28 (24.56%) Lead Software Engineer
4 27 (23.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 27 (23.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) AWS Software Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) Python Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) Python Software Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Lead Java Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Senior
8 4 (3.51%) Implementation Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Software Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Software Support Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (51.75%) Spring
2 38 (33.33%) Kafka
3 33 (28.95%) React
4 31 (27.19%) Spring Boot
5 13 (11.40%) AngularJS
5 13 (11.40%) REST
5 13 (11.40%) Web Services
6 12 (10.53%) RESTful
7 11 (9.65%) CSS
8 9 (7.89%) Hibernate
8 9 (7.89%) PySpark
9 8 (7.02%) HTML
9 8 (7.02%) JDBC
9 8 (7.02%) OpenAPI
9 8 (7.02%) Swagger
9 8 (7.02%) WSDL
10 7 (6.14%) Jest
11 5 (4.39%) J2EE
11 5 (4.39%) Pandas
11 5 (4.39%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 75 (65.79%) Algorithms
2 31 (27.19%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.65%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.51%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.51%) Equities
6 4 (3.51%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (92.98%) Agile
1 106 (92.98%) Software Engineering
2 97 (85.09%) SDLC
3 96 (84.21%) Operational Stability
4 92 (80.70%) CI/CD
5 79 (69.30%) Visualisation
6 68 (59.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 59 (51.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 59 (51.75%) Machine Learning
8 32 (28.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (19.30%) Architectural Design
9 22 (19.30%) Information Architecture
10 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.91%) Risk Management
12 15 (13.16%) Mentoring
13 13 (11.40%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (9.65%) DevOps
15 11 (9.65%) TDD
16 9 (7.89%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 80 (70.18%) Java
2 32 (28.07%) SQL
3 27 (23.68%) Python
4 23 (20.18%) JavaScript
5 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.39%) C#
7 4 (3.51%) Scala
8 2 (1.75%) Swift
9 1 (0.88%) C
9 1 (0.88%) C++
9 1 (0.88%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (2.63%) CCNA
1 3 (2.63%) CCNP
1 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (7.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (32.46%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.04%) Terraform
3 8 (7.02%) Grafana
4 4 (3.51%) Ansible
4 4 (3.51%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 28 (24.56%) Oracle
2 16 (14.04%) Splunk
3 15 (13.16%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.39%) Databricks
6 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.63%) F5
7 3 (2.63%) Murex
8 1 (0.88%) Sybase