Community of Practice Jobs in the UK excluding London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 133 559
Rank change year-on-year -355 +426 +11
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 82 1,480 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 2.06% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 2.47% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 34 130 75
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,988 £41,736
25th Percentile £51,899 £46,250 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% -10.82% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £83,000
90th Percentile £99,375 £75,772 £119,001
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.45% -10.82% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,992 59,900 56,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.40% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,023 41,311 28,974
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Scotland -113 33 - - 22
South West +101 18 £68,525 +55.62% 19
South East +90 15 £64,750 +39.87% 18
North of England -52 9 £62,500 +7.82% 18
North West -43 6 £62,500 +7.82% 8
Midlands +68 5 £110,000 +89.77% 4
West Midlands +62 3 £110,000 +89.77% 3
Yorkshire +24 3 £58,500 +20.90% 6
East Midlands - 2 £68,525 - 1
East of England +37 1 - - 1
Wales +35 1 - - 7
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (4.88%) Apache
1 4 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) Camunda
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.22%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (45.12%) AWS
2 31 (37.80%) Azure
3 14 (17.07%) GitHub
4 10 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (12.20%) GCP
5 8 (9.76%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.66%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.22%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.22%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) DNS
1 7 (8.54%) Network Security
2 6 (7.32%) Firewall
2 6 (7.32%) VPN
3 2 (2.44%) Internet
4 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.85%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.10%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (6.10%) Big Data
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.44%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.44%) MySQL
6 2 (2.44%) Parquet
6 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.22%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.22%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.22%) KDB
7 1 (1.22%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Git
2 9 (10.98%) GitLab
2 9 (10.98%) JUnit
3 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.66%) Mockito
5 2 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.22%) JIRA
6 1 (1.22%) Maven
6 1 (1.22%) Selenium
6 1 (1.22%) Subversion
6 1 (1.22%) Vite
6 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 49 (59.76%) Finance
2 37 (45.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (37.80%) Law
4 24 (29.27%) Social Skills
5 21 (25.61%) Banking
6 16 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (15.85%) Marketing
8 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
9 8 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (6.10%) Retail
11 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
12 2 (2.44%) Legal
13 1 (1.22%) Billing
13 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (46.34%) Software Engineer
2 14 (17.07%) Java Engineer
2 14 (17.07%) Java Software Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) Senior
4 10 (12.20%) Lead
5 8 (9.76%) Analyst
5 8 (9.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Lead Software Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Python Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Security Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.39%) Spring
2 15 (18.29%) Kafka
3 14 (17.07%) React
4 13 (15.85%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.98%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.32%) REST
6 6 (7.32%) RESTful
6 6 (7.32%) YAML
7 5 (6.10%) CSS
7 5 (6.10%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.88%) .NET
8 4 (4.88%) Vue
9 3 (3.66%) HTML
9 3 (3.66%) NumPy
9 3 (3.66%) OAuth
9 3 (3.66%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.66%) scikit-learn
9 3 (3.66%) Web Services
10 2 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.93%) Algorithms
2 9 (10.98%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.54%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.44%) Life Science
7 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.22%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.22%) IoT
7 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.66%) Agile
1 44 (53.66%) Software Engineering
2 41 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (40.24%) SDLC
4 31 (37.80%) Operational Stability
5 28 (34.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (32.93%) Visualisation
7 26 (31.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 25 (30.49%) DevOps
9 23 (28.05%) Machine Learning
10 15 (18.29%) Analytics
10 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (15.85%) Project Delivery
12 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.63%) Risk Management
13 11 (13.41%) Unit Testing
14 10 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (12.20%) Project Management
14 10 (12.20%) Service Delivery
15 9 (10.98%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.12%) Java
2 26 (31.71%) SQL
3 25 (30.49%) Python
4 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.76%) Bicep
6 7 (8.54%) C#
6 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.88%) Bash
9 1 (1.22%) C
9 1 (1.22%) C++
9 1 (1.22%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.22%) Scala
9 1 (1.22%) Swift
9 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Degree
2 6 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.44%) PhD
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.22%) CCNA
6 1 (1.22%) CCNP
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CISM
6 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) OCP
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (8.54%) Docker
2 6 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.54%) Terraform
3 4 (4.88%) Grafana
4 1 (1.22%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 21 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.20%) Databricks
3 9 (10.98%) Oracle
4 6 (7.32%) Atlassian
4 6 (7.32%) Splunk
5 5 (6.10%) Dynatrace
5 5 (6.10%) F5
6 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.22%) DataCore
7 1 (1.22%) Sybase