Community of Practice Contracts in the South West

Communities of Practice (CoP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Community of Practice skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Community of Practice over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 152 168
Rank change year-on-year +30 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 7 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.29% 0.095% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.11% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile - - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile - - £637
90th Percentile - - £763
England median daily rate £480 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -18.64% -1.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £53.75 -
England median hourly rate - £63.67 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Community of Practice falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,047 2,769 3,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.55% 87.63% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,872 2,471
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £734 £725 £718
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 286 265
10th Percentile £15.52 £20.13 £19.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile £70.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the South West

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Dorset - 4 £460 -
Devon 0 3 - - 1
Community of Practice
England

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Operational Stability
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) Product Management
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) YouTube
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft