Community of Practice Jobs in the South West

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 161 275 242
Rank change year-on-year +114 -33 +55
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 17 21 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.49% 0.22% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.27% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £47,231 - -
25th Percentile £51,698 £41,206 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £49,353 £43,760
Median % change year-on-year +38.85% +12.78% +11.38%
75th Percentile - £60,938 £48,705
90th Percentile - £64,875 £55,467
England median annual salary £68,525 £57,965 £66,911
% change year-on-year +18.22% -13.37% +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,228 7,892 6,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.97% 81.68% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 5,677 3,521
10th Percentile £27,150 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the South West.

Salary trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Dorset +36 6 - - 3
Wiltshire - 6 £68,525 - 1
Bristol +56 4 £52,975 -18.50% 9
Devon +21 1 £55,000 +33.48% 2
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub
4 4 (23.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (94.12%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 6 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (35.29%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Law
3 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (23.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) HTML5
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Service Delivery
3 6 (35.29%) Balanced Scorecard
3 6 (35.29%) Budget Management
3 6 (35.29%) Business Case
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 6 (35.29%) Operational Stability
3 6 (35.29%) Project Delivery
3 6 (35.29%) Project Management
3 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
3 6 (35.29%) Scorecard
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) SDLC
4 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) F5
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow