Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Community of Practice skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Community of Practice over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 633 711
Rank change year-on-year +450 +78 +51
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 1,562 382 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.39% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 180 186 312
10th Percentile £40,988 £42,611 £37,576
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £69,500 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £106,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.82% +18.18% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Community of Practice is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +399 1,471 £57,965 -10.82% 49
Scotland +189 1,313 £66,500 -35.25% 2
England +19 224 £57,965 -10.82% 72
Work from Home +42 163 £57,965 -7.26% 31
North of England +70 99 £57,965 +0.81% 32
London +88 72 £63,287 -5.42% 23
North West +33 45 £57,965 +0.81% 21
Yorkshire +72 42 £49,274 -12.40% 4
South West -31 22 £44,033 -7.34% 5
South East -1 19 £46,293 -40.27% 6
North East +8 12 £57,965 - 8
West Midlands -2 8 £57,965 -10.82% 2
Midlands -16 8 £57,965 -10.82% 3
Northern Ireland +28 7 £58,800 -
East of England -8 2 £38,350 -45.21% 3
Wales +1 1 £58,800 -2.00% 1

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 264 (16.90%) Apache Spark
2 92 (5.89%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.24%) FileNet
4 21 (1.34%) GemFire
5 15 (0.96%) Apache
6 5 (0.32%) Confluence
6 5 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.064%) nginx
7 1 (0.064%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.38%) Trello
2 6 (0.38%) UserZoom
3 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.19%) InVision
3 3 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.064%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.51%) Primavera
2 1 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 721 (46.16%) AWS
2 121 (7.75%) Datadog
3 108 (6.91%) Azure
4 74 (4.74%) GCP
5 55 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 42 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
7 35 (2.24%) Amazon S3
8 30 (1.92%) Power Platform
9 25 (1.60%) Google Play
10 24 (1.54%) BlazeMeter
11 18 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (0.83%) GitHub
13 11 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.45%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (0.45%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (0.38%) ChatGPT
16 6 (0.38%) Figma
16 6 (0.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.16%) Kerberos
2 18 (1.15%) DSL
3 3 (0.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.19%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.19%) Internet
3 3 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (20.55%) NoSQL
2 231 (14.79%) Big Data
3 99 (6.34%) Apache Hive
4 89 (5.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 86 (5.51%) HBase
6 72 (4.61%) Metadata
7 66 (4.23%) Relational Database
8 60 (3.84%) Data Lake
9 56 (3.59%) Hadoop
10 50 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
11 48 (3.07%) MongoDB
12 39 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
13 33 (2.11%) Tableau
14 27 (1.73%) Power BI
15 21 (1.34%) CockroachDB
15 21 (1.34%) Hazelcast
16 18 (1.15%) DB2
17 13 (0.83%) MySQL
17 13 (0.83%) Power Query
18 10 (0.64%) Flink
Development Applications
1 197 (12.61%) Jenkins
2 171 (10.95%) Git
3 119 (7.62%) JUnit
4 86 (5.51%) Bitbucket Server
5 65 (4.16%) Artifactory
5 65 (4.16%) Bitbucket
6 53 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 47 (3.01%) Selenium
8 45 (2.88%) WebDriver
9 43 (2.75%) Jasmine
9 43 (2.75%) Karma Test Runner
9 43 (2.75%) Protractor
10 29 (1.86%) JIRA
11 25 (1.60%) Android Studio
12 24 (1.54%) GitLab
13 21 (1.34%) Jaeger
14 19 (1.22%) Maven
15 14 (0.90%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.64%) Gradle
17 9 (0.58%) JMeter
General
1 1,374 (87.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,363 (87.26%) Finance
3 1,327 (84.96%) Law
4 621 (39.76%) Marketing
5 414 (26.50%) Legal
6 269 (17.22%) Banking
7 229 (14.66%) Investment Banking
8 183 (11.72%) Social Skills
9 90 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
10 89 (5.70%) Public Sector
11 76 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
12 43 (2.75%) Financial Institution
13 40 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.98%) Private Banking
15 22 (1.41%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (1.15%) Front Office
17 7 (0.45%) Retail
18 5 (0.32%) Local Government
19 3 (0.19%) Fire and Rescue
19 3 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,275 (81.63%) Software Engineer
2 549 (35.15%) Lead
3 498 (31.88%) Lead Software Engineer
4 415 (26.57%) Java Engineer
4 415 (26.57%) Java Software Engineer
5 253 (16.20%) Python Engineer
5 253 (16.20%) Python Software Engineer
6 185 (11.84%) Lead Java Engineer
7 182 (11.65%) AWS Engineer
8 178 (11.40%) AWS Software Engineer
8 178 (11.40%) Data Engineer
9 176 (11.27%) Big Data Engineer
9 176 (11.27%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 136 (8.71%) Full Stack Engineer
10 136 (8.71%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 136 (8.71%) Senior
11 102 (6.53%) Developer
12 97 (6.21%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 92 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
14 88 (5.63%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (21.25%) Spring
2 264 (16.90%) React
3 220 (14.08%) Kafka
4 198 (12.68%) AngularJS
5 167 (10.69%) JSON
6 156 (9.99%) J2EE
7 149 (9.54%) HTML
8 146 (9.35%) Node.js
9 136 (8.71%) JMS
10 131 (8.39%) PySpark
11 128 (8.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 125 (8.00%) Web Services
13 118 (7.55%) CSS
14 117 (7.49%) Spring Boot
15 109 (6.98%) XML
16 100 (6.40%) Hibernate
17 97 (6.21%) jQuery
18 96 (6.15%) OpenTelemetry
19 80 (5.12%) RESTful
20 68 (4.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 686 (43.92%) Algorithms
2 405 (25.93%) Cloud Native
3 166 (10.63%) Onboarding
4 160 (10.24%) Public Cloud
5 128 (8.19%) Management Information System
6 90 (5.76%) Data Structures
7 76 (4.87%) Product Ownership
8 67 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
9 65 (4.16%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.34%) Replication
12 15 (0.96%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.58%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.45%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (0.32%) Hackathon
17 3 (0.19%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 117 (7.49%) Unix
2 103 (6.59%) Linux
3 25 (1.60%) Android
4 12 (0.77%) Windows
5 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,455 (93.15%) Agile
2 1,339 (85.72%) Software Engineering
3 1,312 (83.99%) CI/CD
4 1,237 (79.19%) SDLC
5 1,232 (78.87%) Operational Stability
6 940 (60.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 910 (58.26%) Machine Learning
8 718 (45.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 711 (45.52%) Visualisation
10 434 (27.78%) Risk Management
11 405 (25.93%) Architectural Design
12 380 (24.33%) Information Architecture
13 346 (22.15%) Continuous Delivery
14 237 (15.17%) Microservices
15 223 (14.28%) Test Automation
16 205 (13.12%) Coaching
17 190 (12.16%) Mentoring
18 155 (9.92%) Client Onboarding
19 154 (9.86%) Full Stack Development
20 145 (9.28%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 842 (53.91%) Java
2 616 (39.44%) Python
3 498 (31.88%) SQL
4 202 (12.93%) JavaScript
5 151 (9.67%) TypeScript
6 145 (9.28%) PL/SQL
7 99 (6.34%) Scala
8 87 (5.57%) Go
9 65 (4.16%) Prolog
9 65 (4.16%) SPARQL
10 32 (2.05%) Kotlin
11 22 (1.41%) C#
11 22 (1.41%) Groovy
12 13 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.45%) Bash
15 6 (0.38%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.38%) R
15 6 (0.38%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.064%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (3.59%) Degree
2 51 (3.27%) Security Cleared
3 37 (2.37%) SC Cleared
4 24 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 21 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 15 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.51%) APMG
11 6 (0.38%) IIBA
12 5 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.19%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.19%) PMP
14 2 (0.13%) BC Cleared
14 2 (0.13%) CEH
14 2 (0.13%) CISM
14 2 (0.13%) CISSP
14 2 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.07%) Accessibility
2 27 (1.73%) QA
3 18 (1.15%) SLA
4 6 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.26%) GDPR
5 4 (0.26%) NCSC
6 3 (0.19%) PMO
6 3 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (5.51%) HDFS
2 67 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.92%) Docker
4 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 230 (14.72%) Terraform
2 225 (14.40%) Kubernetes
3 162 (10.37%) Grafana
4 84 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.34%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.34%) Kibana
5 21 (1.34%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.064%) Ansible
7 1 (0.064%) Packer
Vendors
1 212 (13.57%) Databricks
1 212 (13.57%) Oracle
2 167 (10.69%) Splunk
3 158 (10.12%) Dynatrace
4 86 (5.51%) Informatica
5 57 (3.65%) Alteryx
6 56 (3.59%) Cloudera
7 48 (3.07%) Google
8 30 (1.92%) Microsoft
9 18 (1.15%) Cognos
9 18 (1.15%) SaltStack
9 18 (1.15%) Sybase
10 12 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.58%) TOWER Software
12 8 (0.51%) Sun
13 6 (0.38%) Qualtrics
14 4 (0.26%) GoldenSource
15 3 (0.19%) Mercator
15 3 (0.19%) SAP
16 2 (0.13%) BMC