Community of Practice Contracts in Scotland

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Community of Practice skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Community of Practice over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 123 126
Rank change year-on-year +36 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 35 44 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.63% 1.63% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.76% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 38 47
10th Percentile £400 £411 £415
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.71% +18.39%
75th Percentile - £508 £550
90th Percentile £506 £576 £573
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in Scotland

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Community of Practice within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +22 15 £500 +8.11% 2
Edinburgh +17 13 £494 +0.30% 1
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 14 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 14 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 14 (40.00%) Serverless
3 7 (20.00%) Textract
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.43%) Azure
5 4 (11.43%) Rekognition
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeCommit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (37.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.57%) Informix
6 2 (5.71%) InfluxDB
6 2 (5.71%) Metadata
6 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
1 5 (14.29%) JUnit
1 5 (14.29%) Mockito
2 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 16 (45.71%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Publishing
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Lead
3 5 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Automation Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Project Officer
4 4 (11.43%) Project Support Officer
4 4 (11.43%) Support Officer
5 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Java Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Content Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Content Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) AWS CDK
2 6 (17.14%) PySpark
3 4 (11.43%) React
4 3 (8.57%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) HTML
4 3 (8.57%) Node.js
4 3 (8.57%) PyTorch
4 3 (8.57%) REST
4 3 (8.57%) SpaCy
4 3 (8.57%) Spring
4 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.71%) OAuth
5 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
5 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Security
6 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.86%) Jest
6 1 (2.86%) PostGIS
6 1 (2.86%) Spring Web Flow
6 1 (2.86%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Replication
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Agile
2 19 (54.29%) Coaching
3 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (40.00%) Kanban
4 13 (37.14%) Code Quality
5 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
5 12 (34.29%) Code Coverage
5 12 (34.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
5 12 (34.29%) User Experience
6 11 (31.43%) Mentoring
6 11 (31.43%) Scrum
7 10 (28.57%) ETL
8 9 (25.71%) Unit Testing
9 8 (22.86%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (22.86%) Machine Learning
9 8 (22.86%) Natural Language Processing
9 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
10 7 (20.00%) DevOps
10 7 (20.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 13 (37.14%) Java
2 13 (37.14%) TypeScript
3 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Grafana
2 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Commvault
2 2 (5.71%) Red Hat