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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 143 550
Rank change year-on-year -320 +407 +39
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 116 1,464 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 1.95% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 2.38% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32 132 73
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,988 £41,227
25th Percentile £52,300 £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 £86,250 £75,772 £119,084
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
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 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 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 31 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 -89 62 - - 13
South West +113 23 £68,525 +19.17% 17
South East +73 15 £64,750 +39.87% 14
North of England -58 9 £66,250 +14.29% 32
North West -42 7 £62,500 +7.82% 15
Midlands +61 5 £110,000 +89.77% 8
West Midlands +50 3 £110,000 +89.77% 7
Yorkshire +17 2 £70,000 +44.67% 9
East Midlands - 2 £68,525 - 1
East of England +49 1 - - 2
Wales +40 1 - - 5
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 9 (7.76%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.03%) Apache
3 4 (3.45%) Camunda
3 4 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.72%) nginx
5 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.10%) AWS
2 33 (28.45%) Azure
3 16 (13.79%) GitHub
4 12 (10.34%) GCP
5 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.45%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.59%) npm
10 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.59%) Yarn
11 2 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.90%) DNS
1 8 (6.90%) Network Security
2 6 (5.17%) Firewall
2 6 (5.17%) VPN
3 3 (2.59%) Internet
4 2 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.52%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.48%) Big Data
3 8 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.17%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.59%) Apache Hudi
8 3 (2.59%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (2.59%) MySQL
8 3 (2.59%) Parquet
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.72%) KDB
9 2 (1.72%) Kdb+
9 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) JUnit
2 11 (9.48%) Git
3 10 (8.62%) GitLab
4 5 (4.31%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.59%) Mockito
5 3 (2.59%) Vite
5 3 (2.59%) webpack
6 2 (1.72%) JIRA
6 2 (1.72%) Maven
6 2 (1.72%) Selenium
6 2 (1.72%) Subversion
6 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (69.83%) Finance
2 70 (60.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 64 (55.17%) Law
4 37 (31.90%) Banking
5 29 (25.00%) Marketing
5 29 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 21 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (10.34%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (4.31%) Retail
10 4 (3.45%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.59%) Legal
12 2 (1.72%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 71 (61.21%) Software Engineer
2 28 (24.14%) Java Engineer
2 28 (24.14%) Java Software Engineer
3 20 (17.24%) Lead
4 18 (15.52%) Lead Software Engineer
5 17 (14.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 17 (14.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Senior
7 13 (11.21%) Python Engineer
7 13 (11.21%) Python Software Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Analyst
9 7 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) AWS Software Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Security Analyst
10 6 (5.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.45%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (30.17%) Spring
2 26 (22.41%) Kafka
3 23 (19.83%) React
3 23 (19.83%) Spring Boot
4 14 (12.07%) AngularJS
5 10 (8.62%) REST
6 9 (7.76%) CSS
6 9 (7.76%) RESTful
7 7 (6.03%) Hibernate
7 7 (6.03%) HTML
8 6 (5.17%) Web Services
8 6 (5.17%) YAML
9 5 (4.31%) Vue
10 4 (3.45%) .NET
10 4 (3.45%) NumPy
10 4 (3.45%) OpenAPI
10 4 (3.45%) PySpark
10 4 (3.45%) scikit-learn
10 4 (3.45%) Swagger
10 4 (3.45%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (41.38%) Algorithms
2 20 (17.24%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.34%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.72%) Equities
7 2 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.72%) Life Science
7 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.86%) IoT
8 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (66.38%) Agile
1 77 (66.38%) Software Engineering
2 70 (60.34%) CI/CD
3 63 (54.31%) SDLC
4 62 (53.45%) Operational Stability
5 50 (43.10%) Visualisation
6 48 (41.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (38.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 42 (36.21%) Machine Learning
9 28 (24.14%) DevOps
10 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (14.66%) Analytics
12 17 (14.66%) Risk Management
13 16 (13.79%) Architectural Design
13 16 (13.79%) Information Architecture
13 16 (13.79%) Mentoring
14 13 (11.21%) Project Delivery
15 12 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
16 11 (9.48%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (51.72%) Java
2 37 (31.90%) SQL
3 35 (30.17%) Python
4 16 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.90%) Bicep
6 8 (6.90%) C#
7 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.45%) Bash
9 2 (1.72%) Scala
10 1 (0.86%) C
10 1 (0.86%) C++
10 1 (0.86%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.86%) Swift
10 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.72%) CCNA
5 2 (1.72%) CCNP
5 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.72%) PhD
6 1 (0.86%) OCP
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Docker
2 6 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.34%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Grafana
4 2 (1.72%) Ansible
4 2 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.66%) Oracle
3 12 (10.34%) Databricks
4 9 (7.76%) Splunk
5 8 (6.90%) Dynatrace
6 6 (5.17%) Atlassian
6 6 (5.17%) F5
7 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.72%) Murex
9 1 (0.86%) DataCore
9 1 (0.86%) Sybase