Community of Practice Job Trends in Scotland

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 127 16
Rank change year-on-year +21 -111 +183
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 32 11 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.97% 0.55% 20.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.59% 22.51%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £56,270
25th Percentile - £50,686 £57,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £56,318 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.31% -35.25%
75th Percentile - £61,949 £81,000
90th Percentile - - £85,650
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year +0.78% +11.28% -10.82%

All Process & 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 2,336 1,857 5,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.94% 93.41% 92.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 872 2,405
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,933 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in Scotland

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Community of Practice

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 May 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
Stirling - 9 - -
West Lothian - 7 - -
Fife - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 5 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Midlothian - 1 - -
Community of Practice
UK

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

Communications & Networking
1 32 (100.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 32 (100.00%) GitLab
1 32 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 32 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (100.00%) Games
1 32 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 32 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (100.00%) Architect
2 31 (96.88%) Salesforce Architect
3 18 (56.25%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 18 (56.25%) Technical Architect
4 9 (28.13%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 9 (28.13%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Systems Architect
6 1 (3.13%) CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 32 (100.00%) REST
1 32 (100.00%) SOAP
1 32 (100.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 32 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Agile
1 32 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 32 (100.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 32 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 32 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 32 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 32 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
1 32 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 32 (100.00%) OO
1 32 (100.00%) PLM
1 32 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 32 (100.00%) Scrum
1 32 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 32 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 32 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 32 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (3.13%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 32 (100.00%) SOQL
1 32 (100.00%) SOSL
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 32 (100.00%) Splunk