Community of Practice Jobs

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 480 187 636
Rank change year-on-year -293 +449 +63
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 230 1,552 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 1.50% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.78% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 66 187 179
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,060 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,293 £52,818
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,919 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.17% -10.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,046 £69,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £110,000 £75,772 £108,719
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,525 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.22% -10.82% +18.18%

All Process and 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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Top 15 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 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
England +98 161 £68,525 +18.22% 125
UK excluding London -320 116 £68,525 +18.22% 91
London +138 108 £67,500 +6.66% 51
Scotland -89 62 - - 13
Work from Home -2 44 £55,000 -5.11% 74
South West +113 23 £68,525 +19.17% 17
South East +73 15 £64,750 +39.87% 15
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% 9
West Midlands +50 3 £110,000 +89.77% 7
Yorkshire +17 2 £70,000 +44.67% 9
East Midlands - 2 £68,525 - 2
East of England +49 1 - - 3
Wales +40 1 - - 5

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 11 (4.78%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.04%) Apache
3 5 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.74%) Camunda
4 4 (1.74%) CMS
4 4 (1.74%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.74%) nginx
4 4 (1.74%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (37.83%) AWS
2 44 (19.13%) Azure
3 20 (8.70%) GCP
4 16 (6.96%) GitHub
5 10 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (3.48%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (1.74%) Apigee
9 4 (1.74%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (1.74%) Contentstack
9 4 (1.74%) Kong
9 4 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.74%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.30%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.22%) DNS
2 10 (4.35%) Network Security
3 6 (2.61%) Firewall
3 6 (2.61%) VPN
4 4 (1.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.30%) Internet
6 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.09%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.39%) Big Data
3 12 (5.22%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.61%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.74%) KDB
8 4 (1.74%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.74%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.74%) Parquet
8 4 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.30%) Apache Hudi
9 3 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.30%) MySQL
9 3 (1.30%) Redis
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 22 (9.57%) Git
2 13 (5.65%) JUnit
3 12 (5.22%) GitLab
4 9 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.91%) Vite
5 6 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.74%) JIRA
6 4 (1.74%) Maven
6 4 (1.74%) Mockito
6 4 (1.74%) Spinnaker
7 3 (1.30%) Axure RP
7 3 (1.30%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.30%) Selenium
7 3 (1.30%) webpack
8 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.87%) Subversion
8 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.87%) YouTrack
9 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 164 (71.30%) Finance
2 153 (66.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 136 (59.13%) Law
4 95 (41.30%) Banking
5 65 (28.26%) Social Skills
6 40 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (17.39%) Marketing
7 27 (11.74%) Public Sector
8 19 (8.26%) Investment Banking
9 16 (6.96%) Front Office
10 9 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.91%) Legal
11 7 (3.04%) Retail
12 4 (1.74%) Advertising
12 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.30%) Back Office
14 2 (0.87%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.87%) Private Banking
15 1 (0.43%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 135 (58.70%) Software Engineer
2 62 (26.96%) Lead
3 56 (24.35%) Lead Software Engineer
4 45 (19.57%) Java Engineer
4 45 (19.57%) Java Software Engineer
4 45 (19.57%) Senior
5 35 (15.22%) Python Engineer
5 35 (15.22%) Python Software Engineer
6 24 (10.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (8.26%) Developer
8 17 (7.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (7.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 14 (6.09%) Analyst
10 13 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) AWS Software Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) Architect
12 10 (4.35%) Lead Java Engineer
13 8 (3.48%) Senior Manager
13 8 (3.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.30%) React
1 49 (21.30%) Spring
2 42 (18.26%) Kafka
3 27 (11.74%) Spring Boot
4 22 (9.57%) RESTful
5 21 (9.13%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.22%) REST
7 11 (4.78%) CSS
8 10 (4.35%) Web Services
9 9 (3.91%) HTML
9 9 (3.91%) Jest
10 8 (3.48%) OpenAPI
10 8 (3.48%) Swagger
11 7 (3.04%) Hibernate
12 6 (2.61%) Django
12 6 (2.61%) Flask
12 6 (2.61%) Node.js
12 6 (2.61%) NumPy
12 6 (2.61%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (27.83%) Algorithms
2 52 (22.61%) Cloud Native
3 24 (10.43%) Public Cloud
4 13 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.78%) Derivative
5 11 (4.78%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.91%) Mobile App
7 8 (3.48%) Client/Server
8 7 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.61%) Equities
10 5 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.74%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.74%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.74%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.87%) Life Science
12 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.17%) Linux
2 2 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (75.65%) Agile
2 156 (67.83%) Software Engineering
3 128 (55.65%) Operational Stability
4 127 (55.22%) CI/CD
5 122 (53.04%) SDLC
6 86 (37.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (36.96%) Artificial Intelligence
8 78 (33.91%) Machine Learning
9 66 (28.70%) Visualisation
10 43 (18.70%) Information Architecture
10 43 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (18.26%) DevOps
12 41 (17.83%) Architectural Design
13 39 (16.96%) Continuous Delivery
14 34 (14.78%) Mentoring
15 32 (13.91%) Analytics
16 31 (13.48%) Risk Management
17 29 (12.61%) Microservices
18 28 (12.17%) Roadmaps
19 26 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.22%) Java
2 79 (34.35%) Python
3 58 (25.22%) SQL
4 25 (10.87%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.83%) Go
7 16 (6.96%) C#
8 9 (3.91%) C++
9 8 (3.48%) Bicep
10 7 (3.04%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.61%) Scala
12 5 (2.17%) Ruby
13 4 (1.74%) Bash
13 4 (1.74%) Lua
14 3 (1.30%) C
15 2 (0.87%) R
15 2 (0.87%) Rust
16 1 (0.43%) Swift
16 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (12.61%) Degree
2 15 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.91%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.04%) PhD
7 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.74%) CCNA
8 4 (1.74%) CCNP
8 4 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) OCP
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
3 3 (1.30%) SLA
3 3 (1.30%) WCAG
4 2 (0.87%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 18 (7.83%) Docker
2 6 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.61%) Terraform
3 9 (3.91%) Grafana
4 4 (1.74%) Ansible
4 4 (1.74%) Mesos
4 4 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.87%) Argo
5 2 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.87%) Puppet
5 2 (0.87%) Salt
6 1 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 28 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.57%) Oracle
3 12 (5.22%) Databricks
4 9 (3.91%) Splunk
5 8 (3.48%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.48%) F5
5 8 (3.48%) Google
6 6 (2.61%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.74%) MKS
7 4 (1.74%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.30%) Adobe
8 3 (1.30%) Mercator
9 2 (0.87%) Murex
10 1 (0.43%) Arista
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco
10 1 (0.43%) DataCore
10 1 (0.43%) Sybase