Community of Practice Jobs in the Thames Valley

Communities of Practice (CoP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 233 245
Rank change year-on-year +60 +12 +12
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 7 13 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,293 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% -25.93% -
75th Percentile £61,500 - £79,375
90th Percentile £66,200 - £88,750
South East median annual salary £64,750 £46,293 £81,250
% change year-on-year +39.87% -43.02% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,149 5,697 5,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.92% 84.80% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 3,925 3,087
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,375 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the Thames Valley

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Community of Practice in the Thames Valley

Community of Practice
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Buckinghamshire - 4 £52,500 -
Berkshire +44 3 £63,000 - 2
Community of Practice
South East

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth2
1 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (42.86%) React
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Vue
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Thinking
2 4 (57.14%) API Development
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) SOLID
3 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Epics
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft