Community of Practice Contracts in the UK excluding London

Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 367 386
Rank change year-on-year +39 +19 -15
Contract jobs citing Community of Practice 64 79 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.39% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 60 102
10th Percentile £400 £413 £416
25th Percentile £461 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -3.71% +17.98%
75th Percentile £569 £570 £580
90th Percentile £627 £714 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £52.00 -
25th Percentile - £53.13 £31.50
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year - +32.99% -
75th Percentile - £70.00 £44.03
90th Percentile - £79.00 £46.11
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year - +47.94% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,285 20,362 27,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.51% 89.30% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,280 13,968 18,972
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,123 1,246 1,358
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Community of Practice
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Community of Practice as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Community of Practice in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Community of Practice in the UK excluding London

Community of Practice
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Scotland +30 36 £494 - 5
South East +9 11 £570 -12.31% 6
Midlands +25 7 £563 +3.45% 5
West Midlands +20 7 £563 +3.45% 4
South West +5 5 £400 -40.74% 10
North of England +19 4 £575 +21.05% 30
Yorkshire +15 4 £575 +27.78% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £576 -
Community of Practice
UK

Community of Practice
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (10.94%) Confluence
2 6 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (6.25%) CMS
4 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) SAP MII
1 1 (1.56%) SAP PP
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) AWS
2 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3
2 13 (20.31%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (20.31%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (20.31%) OpenShift
2 13 (20.31%) Serverless
3 7 (10.94%) Azure
4 5 (7.81%) Textract
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (4.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub
7 2 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (3.13%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.13%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.25%) Metadata
6 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.69%) CockroachDB
6 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.69%) Informix
7 2 (3.13%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Cucumber
1 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
1 5 (7.81%) JUnit
1 5 (7.81%) Mockito
2 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.56%) Postman
General
1 28 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Finance
4 7 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Publishing
7 2 (3.13%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Developer
2 17 (26.56%) Lead
3 7 (10.94%) Java Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 5 (7.81%) Architect
4 5 (7.81%) Java Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Project Leader
5 4 (6.25%) Automation Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Content Designer
5 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Designer
5 4 (6.25%) Lead Product Owner
5 4 (6.25%) Product Owner
5 4 (6.25%) Project Officer
5 4 (6.25%) Project Support Officer
5 4 (6.25%) Senior Content Designer
5 4 (6.25%) Senior Designer
5 4 (6.25%) Support Officer
6 3 (4.69%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (4.69%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) AWS CDK
2 8 (12.50%) REST
3 7 (10.94%) Spring
3 7 (10.94%) Spring Boot
4 6 (9.38%) PySpark
5 5 (7.81%) CSS
5 5 (7.81%) HTML
5 5 (7.81%) React
6 3 (4.69%) JPA
6 3 (4.69%) Node.js
6 3 (4.69%) OAuth
6 3 (4.69%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
6 3 (4.69%) SpaCy
6 3 (4.69%) Spring Security
7 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.13%) Spring MVC
7 2 (3.13%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (3.13%) Thymeleaf
8 1 (1.56%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.69%) Replication
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
1 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (84.38%) Agile
2 21 (32.81%) Coaching
3 16 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 16 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (25.00%) User Experience
4 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (21.88%) Kanban
5 12 (18.75%) Code Quality
5 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 11 (17.19%) Analytics
6 11 (17.19%) Code Coverage
6 11 (17.19%) Requirements Analysis
6 11 (17.19%) Scrum
7 10 (15.63%) Operational Stability
7 10 (15.63%) Unit Testing
8 9 (14.06%) DevOps
8 9 (14.06%) Project Management
8 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) Java
1 16 (25.00%) Python
2 12 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 9 (14.06%) SQL
4 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (17.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (20.31%) Grafana
2 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.69%) Ansible
3 3 (4.69%) Kibana
4 1 (1.56%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.25%) Oracle
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.13%) Commvault
3 2 (3.13%) Foundry
3 2 (3.13%) Palantir
3 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (1.56%) Ariba
4 1 (1.56%) Concur
4 1 (1.56%) HP
4 1 (1.56%) Qualtrics