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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 16 206
Rank change year-on-year -111 +190 +14
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 37 1,314 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.24% 19.29% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 21.11% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £43,453
25th Percentile - £55,400 £55,402
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,650 £102,698
Median % change year-on-year - -39.00% +86.72%
75th Percentile - £77,125 £119,168
90th Percentile - £84,100 -
UK median annual salary £67,919 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.17% -10.82% +8.33%

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 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 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 -16 30 - - 9
Edinburgh +24 7 - - 1
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 5 (13.51%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.81%) Apache
3 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.41%) Camunda
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.70%) nginx
4 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
2 3 (8.11%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) GCP
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (5.41%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (5.41%) npm
3 2 (5.41%) Yarn
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.70%) Dagster
4 1 (2.70%) Datadog
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.70%) Prefect
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (13.51%) Big Data
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.41%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (5.41%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.41%) Parquet
5 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (2.70%) KDB
6 1 (2.70%) Kdb+
6 1 (2.70%) MySQL
6 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) JUnit
2 3 (8.11%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.41%) Vite
3 2 (5.41%) webpack
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) Maven
4 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 30 (81.08%) Finance
1 30 (81.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 28 (75.68%) Law
3 15 (40.54%) Banking
4 11 (29.73%) Marketing
5 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
6 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.41%) Legal
8 1 (2.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (75.68%) Software Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Software Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Lead
3 7 (18.92%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Software Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Python Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Senior
7 1 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) Spring
2 11 (29.73%) Kafka
3 10 (27.03%) React
4 8 (21.62%) Spring Boot
5 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
5 4 (10.81%) CSS
6 3 (8.11%) NumPy
6 3 (8.11%) REST
6 3 (8.11%) RESTful
6 3 (8.11%) scikit-learn
6 3 (8.11%) Web Services
7 2 (5.41%) Google JAX
7 2 (5.41%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.41%) Jest
7 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.41%) PySpark
7 2 (5.41%) PyTorch
7 2 (5.41%) Swagger
7 2 (5.41%) TensorFlow
7 2 (5.41%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 24 (64.86%) Algorithms
2 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Equities
5 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (86.49%) Software Engineering
2 30 (81.08%) Agile
3 28 (75.68%) Operational Stability
4 27 (72.97%) SDLC
5 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
6 23 (62.16%) Visualisation
7 20 (54.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (51.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 19 (51.35%) Machine Learning
9 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (21.62%) Risk Management
11 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (16.22%) Architectural Design
12 6 (16.22%) Information Architecture
13 5 (13.51%) Continuous Delivery
14 4 (10.81%) Mentoring
14 4 (10.81%) Microservices
14 4 (10.81%) Sprint Planning
14 4 (10.81%) Sprint Retrospective
14 4 (10.81%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Java
2 10 (27.03%) Python
3 9 (24.32%) SQL
4 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) C
7 1 (2.70%) C++
7 1 (2.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
7 1 (2.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
1 2 (5.41%) PhD
2 1 (2.70%) CCNA
2 1 (2.70%) CCNP
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 4 (10.81%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
4 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 6 (16.22%) Splunk
3 5 (13.51%) Dynatrace
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.41%) Databricks
6 1 (2.70%) F5
6 1 (2.70%) Murex
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.70%) Sybase