Community of Practice Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Communities of Practice (CoP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 103 129
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 +90
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 6 7 12
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.33% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.55% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile £44,972 £54,098 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,479 £68,645 £46,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £88,876 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% +57.81% -56.95%
75th Percentile £90,938 £95,021 £67,191
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,258 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £88,876 £56,318
% change year-on-year -29.68% +57.81% -19.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,485 1,284 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 81.55% 87.76% 92.70%
Number of salaries quoted 866 637 1,376
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,375 £41,103 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -5.30% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Community of Practice job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Community of Practice
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Community of Practice.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Community of Practice

Community of Practice
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Community of Practice in West Yorkshire

Community of Practice
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Leeds -12 6 £81,250 -12.16% 1
Community of Practice
Yorkshire

Community of Practice
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) API Management
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (50.00%) Data Security
1 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Databricks