Communities of Practice (CoP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Community of Practice skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Community of Practice over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 617 696
Rank change year-on-year +430 +79 +71
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 1,550 400 610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 0.40% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 170 197 315
10th Percentile £40,988 £43,116 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £67,851 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £109,938 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.82% +18.18% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Community of Practice in the UK

Community of Practice
Top 16 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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +415 1,464 £57,965 -10.82% 47
Scotland +182 1,313 £66,500 -41.10% 2
England +11 211 £57,965 -10.82% 65
Work from Home +46 159 £57,965 -7.26% 31
North of England +72 92 £57,965 +0.81% 30
London +74 67 £63,287 -5.42% 18
North West +30 41 £57,965 +0.81% 20
Yorkshire +69 40 £47,500 -15.56% 6
South West -28 22 £44,033 -7.34% 4
South East -11 19 £46,293 -40.27% 5
North East +4 11 £57,965 - 4
Northern Ireland +30 7 £58,800 -
West Midlands 0 7 £57,965 -10.82% 4
Midlands -9 7 £57,965 -10.82% 5
East of England -3 3 £38,350 -45.21% 2
Wales -2 1 £58,800 -2.00% 1

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
1 264 (17.03%) Apache Spark
2 92 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.26%) FileNet
4 21 (1.35%) GemFire
5 15 (0.97%) Apache
6 5 (0.32%) Confluence
6 5 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.065%) nginx
7 1 (0.065%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.39%) Trello
2 6 (0.39%) UserZoom
3 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.19%) InVision
3 3 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.065%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.52%) Primavera
2 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 714 (46.06%) AWS
2 121 (7.81%) Datadog
3 105 (6.77%) Azure
4 73 (4.71%) GCP
5 55 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 42 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
7 35 (2.26%) Amazon S3
8 30 (1.94%) Power Platform
9 25 (1.61%) Google Play
10 24 (1.55%) BlazeMeter
11 18 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (0.84%) GitHub
13 11 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.45%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (0.45%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (0.39%) ChatGPT
16 6 (0.39%) Figma
16 6 (0.39%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.19%) Kerberos
2 18 (1.16%) DSL
3 3 (0.19%) Firewall
3 3 (0.19%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.19%) Internet
3 3 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (20.71%) NoSQL
2 231 (14.90%) Big Data
3 99 (6.39%) Apache Hive
4 89 (5.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 86 (5.55%) HBase
6 72 (4.65%) Metadata
7 66 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 60 (3.87%) Data Lake
9 56 (3.61%) Hadoop
10 50 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
11 48 (3.10%) MongoDB
12 39 (2.52%) Qlik Sense
13 33 (2.13%) Tableau
14 27 (1.74%) Power BI
15 21 (1.35%) CockroachDB
15 21 (1.35%) Hazelcast
16 18 (1.16%) DB2
17 13 (0.84%) MySQL
17 13 (0.84%) Power Query
18 10 (0.65%) Flink
Development Applications
1 197 (12.71%) Jenkins
2 171 (11.03%) Git
3 117 (7.55%) JUnit
4 86 (5.55%) Bitbucket Server
5 65 (4.19%) Artifactory
5 65 (4.19%) Bitbucket
6 53 (3.42%) Cypress.io
7 45 (2.90%) Selenium
8 43 (2.77%) Jasmine
8 43 (2.77%) Karma Test Runner
8 43 (2.77%) Protractor
8 43 (2.77%) WebDriver
9 27 (1.74%) JIRA
10 25 (1.61%) Android Studio
11 21 (1.35%) Jaeger
12 19 (1.23%) Maven
13 18 (1.16%) GitLab
14 12 (0.77%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.65%) Gradle
16 9 (0.58%) JMeter
General
1 1,374 (88.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,359 (87.68%) Finance
3 1,326 (85.55%) Law
4 623 (40.19%) Marketing
5 411 (26.52%) Legal
6 269 (17.35%) Banking
7 229 (14.77%) Investment Banking
8 184 (11.87%) Social Skills
9 90 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
10 82 (5.29%) Public Sector
11 77 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
12 43 (2.77%) Financial Institution
13 41 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.00%) Private Banking
15 22 (1.42%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (1.16%) Front Office
17 5 (0.32%) Local Government
18 4 (0.26%) Retail
19 3 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
20 2 (0.13%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 1,271 (82.00%) Software Engineer
2 546 (35.23%) Lead
3 496 (32.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 415 (26.77%) Java Engineer
4 415 (26.77%) Java Software Engineer
5 253 (16.32%) Python Engineer
5 253 (16.32%) Python Software Engineer
6 185 (11.94%) Lead Java Engineer
7 182 (11.74%) AWS Engineer
8 178 (11.48%) AWS Software Engineer
8 178 (11.48%) Data Engineer
9 176 (11.35%) Big Data Engineer
9 176 (11.35%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 136 (8.77%) Full Stack Engineer
10 136 (8.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 131 (8.45%) Senior
12 102 (6.58%) Developer
13 97 (6.26%) Lead Big Data Engineer
14 91 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 87 (5.61%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (21.42%) Spring
2 262 (16.90%) React
3 219 (14.13%) Kafka
4 198 (12.77%) AngularJS
5 167 (10.77%) JSON
6 156 (10.06%) J2EE
7 149 (9.61%) HTML
8 144 (9.29%) Node.js
9 136 (8.77%) JMS
10 131 (8.45%) PySpark
11 128 (8.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 125 (8.06%) Web Services
13 118 (7.61%) CSS
14 117 (7.55%) Spring Boot
15 109 (7.03%) XML
16 100 (6.45%) Hibernate
17 97 (6.26%) jQuery
18 96 (6.19%) OpenTelemetry
19 80 (5.16%) RESTful
20 68 (4.39%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 686 (44.26%) Algorithms
2 404 (26.06%) Cloud Native
3 166 (10.71%) Onboarding
4 160 (10.32%) Public Cloud
5 126 (8.13%) Management Information System
6 90 (5.81%) Data Structures
7 77 (4.97%) Product Ownership
8 66 (4.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 65 (4.19%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.35%) Replication
12 15 (0.97%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.58%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.45%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
16 5 (0.32%) Hackathon
17 3 (0.19%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 111 (7.16%) Unix
2 97 (6.26%) Linux
3 25 (1.61%) Android
4 12 (0.77%) Windows
5 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,444 (93.16%) Agile
2 1,334 (86.06%) Software Engineering
3 1,302 (84.00%) CI/CD
4 1,236 (79.74%) SDLC
5 1,231 (79.42%) Operational Stability
6 939 (60.58%) Artificial Intelligence
7 909 (58.65%) Machine Learning
8 711 (45.87%) Visualisation
9 709 (45.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 433 (27.94%) Risk Management
11 404 (26.06%) Architectural Design
12 379 (24.45%) Information Architecture
13 346 (22.32%) Continuous Delivery
14 236 (15.23%) Microservices
15 221 (14.26%) Test Automation
16 196 (12.65%) Coaching
17 182 (11.74%) Mentoring
18 155 (10.00%) Client Onboarding
19 154 (9.94%) Full Stack Development
20 145 (9.35%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 840 (54.19%) Java
2 614 (39.61%) Python
3 498 (32.13%) SQL
4 202 (13.03%) JavaScript
5 149 (9.61%) TypeScript
6 145 (9.35%) PL/SQL
7 99 (6.39%) Scala
8 86 (5.55%) Go
9 65 (4.19%) Prolog
9 65 (4.19%) SPARQL
10 31 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 22 (1.42%) Groovy
12 20 (1.29%) C#
13 13 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.45%) Bash
16 6 (0.39%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.39%) R
16 6 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.065%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (3.74%) Degree
2 51 (3.29%) Security Cleared
3 38 (2.45%) SC Cleared
4 23 (1.48%) AWS Certification
5 21 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 15 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.52%) APMG
11 6 (0.39%) IIBA
11 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.19%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.19%) PMP
14 2 (0.13%) CEH
14 2 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.13%) CISM
14 2 (0.13%) CISSP
14 2 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (2.97%) Accessibility
2 26 (1.68%) QA
3 18 (1.16%) SLA
4 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.26%) GDPR
5 4 (0.26%) NCSC
6 3 (0.19%) PMO
6 3 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (5.55%) HDFS
2 67 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.94%) Docker
4 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 224 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 223 (14.39%) Terraform
3 156 (10.06%) Grafana
4 78 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.35%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.35%) Kibana
5 21 (1.35%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.065%) Ansible
7 1 (0.065%) Packer
Vendors
1 212 (13.68%) Databricks
1 212 (13.68%) Oracle
2 167 (10.77%) Splunk
3 158 (10.19%) Dynatrace
4 86 (5.55%) Informatica
5 57 (3.68%) Alteryx
6 56 (3.61%) Cloudera
7 47 (3.03%) Google
8 30 (1.94%) Microsoft
9 18 (1.16%) Cognos
9 18 (1.16%) SaltStack
9 18 (1.16%) Sybase
10 12 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.58%) TOWER Software
12 8 (0.52%) Sun
13 6 (0.39%) Qualtrics
14 4 (0.26%) GoldenSource
15 3 (0.19%) Mercator
15 3 (0.19%) SAP
16 2 (0.13%) BMC