Community of Practice Job Trends

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Community of Practice skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 363 201
Rank change year-on-year -25 -162 +445
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 398 354 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.80% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.86% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 242 69 204
10th Percentile £50,468 £47,231 £41,206
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +12.14% -10.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,445 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £110,000 £75,772
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,525 £57,965
% change year-on-year -5.14% +18.22% -13.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Community of Practice relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in the UK

Community of Practice
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Community of Practice.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
England +19 346 £67,921 -0.75% 37
Work from Home +197 275 £67,921 +23.49% 27
UK excluding London -36 209 £65,000 -5.14% 22
London -17 169 £72,500 +7.41% 21
North of England +40 88 £67,500 +1.89% 8
North East - 45 £67,500 - 1
Scotland -49 32 - - 1
South East +2 29 £65,000 +0.78% 7
Midlands +3 26 £65,498 -40.46% 5
Yorkshire -18 23 £67,921 -2.97% 3
North West +20 20 £67,249 +7.60% 5
South West -71 16 £69,056 +0.77% 1
East Midlands -9 14 - -
West Midlands -13 12 £65,498 -40.46% 5
Wales - 12 £53,171 - 1
East of England -10 6 £65,000 -

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.02%) Confluence
2 10 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.26%) SAS
4 6 (1.51%) Apache
5 5 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Adobe XD
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 104 (26.13%) AWS
2 92 (23.12%) Azure
3 61 (15.33%) GCP
4 30 (7.54%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.29%) Serverless
6 20 (5.03%) Figma
6 20 (5.03%) Google Analytics
7 19 (4.77%) GitHub
8 18 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.52%) Firebase
10 14 (3.52%) Stripe
10 14 (3.52%) TestFlight
11 13 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 11 (2.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (2.51%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.79%) Broadband
2 9 (2.26%) Network Security
3 3 (0.75%) DNS
3 3 (0.75%) Firewall
3 3 (0.75%) VPN
4 2 (0.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.53%) Power BI
2 20 (5.03%) Metadata
3 5 (1.26%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.01%) Pentaho
4 4 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.75%) Airbyte
5 3 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.50%) Looker
6 2 (0.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 2 (0.50%) Tableau
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (11.06%) GitLab
2 42 (10.55%) Jenkins
3 35 (8.79%) SonarQube
4 19 (4.77%) JIRA
5 14 (3.52%) Crashlytics
5 14 (3.52%) XCTest
6 9 (2.26%) Axure RP
6 9 (2.26%) Balsamiq
6 9 (2.26%) Git
7 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.51%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.75%) Gatling
8 3 (0.75%) JMeter
8 3 (0.75%) JUnit
9 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.25%) Appium
10 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 184 (46.23%) Public Sector
2 167 (41.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 116 (29.15%) Social Skills
4 107 (26.88%) Law
5 97 (24.37%) Finance
6 77 (19.35%) Marketing
7 53 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
8 42 (10.55%) Manufacturing
9 37 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (9.05%) Games
11 34 (8.54%) Banking
12 32 (8.04%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (4.27%) Retail
14 11 (2.76%) Legal
15 4 (1.01%) Back Office
16 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.75%) Polish Language
17 1 (0.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 92 (23.12%) Senior
2 75 (18.84%) Architect
3 56 (14.07%) Product Manager
4 44 (11.06%) Analyst
5 42 (10.55%) Development Manager
5 42 (10.55%) Product Development Manager
6 40 (10.05%) Senior Manager
7 39 (9.80%) Delivery Manager
8 34 (8.54%) Salesforce Architect
9 33 (8.29%) Software Engineer
10 32 (8.04%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 29 (7.29%) Business Analyst
12 28 (7.04%) Senior Delivery Manager
13 26 (6.53%) Designer
13 26 (6.53%) Lead
14 25 (6.28%) Technical Architect
15 23 (5.78%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
16 22 (5.53%) Developer
17 19 (4.77%) Salesforce Technical Architect
18 17 (4.27%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.56%) Lightning Web Components
1 46 (11.56%) REST
1 46 (11.56%) SOAP
1 46 (11.56%) Visualforce
2 16 (4.02%) .NET
3 14 (3.52%) SwiftUI
3 14 (3.52%) UIKit
4 11 (2.76%) Middleware
5 10 (2.51%) Spring
6 9 (2.26%) CSS
6 9 (2.26%) HTML
7 8 (2.01%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (2.01%) Playwright
8 7 (1.76%) Node.js
8 7 (1.76%) React
8 7 (1.76%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.51%) LangChain
9 6 (1.51%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.51%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 131 (32.91%) Product Ownership
2 44 (11.06%) Cloud Native
3 42 (10.55%) FMCG
4 23 (5.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 16 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.77%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.02%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.01%) Blog
10 4 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.75%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.75%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.75%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.50%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.50%) NHS
12 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.25%) 3D Printing
13 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (60.80%) Agile
2 154 (38.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 147 (36.93%) Technology Strategy
4 113 (28.39%) Scrum
5 112 (28.14%) CI/CD
5 112 (28.14%) Roadmaps
6 93 (23.37%) Mentoring
7 91 (22.86%) Project Delivery
8 85 (21.36%) DevOps
9 78 (19.60%) Decision-Making
10 72 (18.09%) Coaching
11 56 (14.07%) TOGAF
12 53 (13.32%) Test Automation
13 51 (12.81%) Software Engineering
14 50 (12.56%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (12.31%) Event-Driven
15 49 (12.31%) User Research
16 48 (12.06%) Collaborative Culture
16 48 (12.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 46 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 58 (14.57%) Java
2 46 (11.56%) Apex Code
3 37 (9.30%) Python
4 35 (8.79%) SOQL
4 35 (8.79%) SOSL
5 29 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 28 (7.04%) SQL
7 14 (3.52%) Kotlin
7 14 (3.52%) Swift
8 11 (2.76%) C#
9 10 (2.51%) Bash
10 8 (2.01%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.26%) Ruby
11 5 (1.26%) Scala
12 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (43.47%) Degree
2 129 (32.41%) Security Cleared
3 120 (30.15%) SC Cleared
4 40 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.26%) CISM
6 9 (2.26%) CISSP
7 6 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.75%) IIBA
8 3 (0.75%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) APMG
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.56%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.52%) WCAG
3 10 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.51%) QA
4 9 (2.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 9 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.26%) NCSC
4 9 (2.26%) NIST
5 2 (0.50%) PMO
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) PERC
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.77%) Terraform
2 8 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.01%) Ansible
4 3 (0.75%) Grafana
4 3 (0.75%) Kibana
5 2 (0.50%) Packer
5 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 48 (12.06%) Salesforce
2 39 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 35 (8.79%) Splunk
4 21 (5.28%) Google
5 14 (3.52%) Amplitude
5 14 (3.52%) Braze
6 12 (3.02%) Adobe
7 11 (2.76%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.76%) Talend
9 6 (1.51%) Oracle
10 4 (1.01%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.01%) Informatica
11 3 (0.75%) Databricks
11 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.50%) Guidewire
13 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.25%) YouTube