Community of Practice Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 622 690
Rank change year-on-year +430 +68 +54
Permanent jobs citing Community of Practice 1,535 348 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 188 173 338
10th Percentile £41,060 £42,500 £38,258
25th Percentile £46,293 £53,219 £45,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £69,625 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £107,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.82% +18.18% +8.68%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +395 1,446 £57,965 -10.82% 70
Scotland +174 1,278 £62,650 -39.00% 4
England +20 235 £57,965 -10.82% 84
Work from Home +32 168 £57,965 -10.82% 55
North of England +67 106 £57,965 +0.81% 31
London +105 75 £63,287 -5.42% 20
North West +30 52 £57,965 +0.81% 18
Yorkshire +52 41 £48,387 -30.33% 7
South West -33 22 £57,500 +43.75% 8
South East -15 19 £46,293 -45.54% 11
North East +1 13 £57,965 - 6
West Midlands -21 9 £57,965 -10.82% 6
Midlands -26 9 £57,965 -10.82% 9
Northern Ireland +23 8 £58,800 -
Wales +3 2 £58,800 -2.00% 3
East of England -21 2 £38,350 -45.21% 7

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
1 255 (16.61%) Apache Spark
2 91 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (2.28%) FileNet
4 21 (1.37%) GemFire
5 15 (0.98%) Apache
6 7 (0.46%) Confluence
7 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.065%) nginx
8 1 (0.065%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.39%) Trello
2 6 (0.39%) UserZoom
3 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.20%) InVision
3 3 (0.20%) 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
1 696 (45.34%) AWS
2 121 (7.88%) Datadog
3 102 (6.64%) Azure
4 73 (4.76%) GCP
5 55 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 40 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
7 35 (2.28%) Amazon S3
8 29 (1.89%) Power Platform
9 25 (1.63%) Google Play
10 24 (1.56%) BlazeMeter
11 18 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (0.78%) GitHub
13 11 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (0.46%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (0.46%) Amazon SageMaker
14 7 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (0.39%) Figma
15 6 (0.39%) PaaS
16 5 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
17 4 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.23%) Kerberos
2 16 (1.04%) DSL
3 3 (0.20%) Firewall
3 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.20%) Internet
3 3 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (20.33%) NoSQL
2 219 (14.27%) Big Data
3 95 (6.19%) Apache Hive
4 89 (5.80%) Apache Cassandra
5 84 (5.47%) HBase
6 70 (4.56%) Metadata
7 64 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 57 (3.71%) Data Lake
9 54 (3.52%) Hadoop
10 48 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
11 44 (2.87%) MongoDB
12 39 (2.54%) Qlik Sense
13 31 (2.02%) Tableau
14 26 (1.69%) Power BI
15 21 (1.37%) CockroachDB
15 21 (1.37%) Hazelcast
16 16 (1.04%) DB2
17 13 (0.85%) MySQL
17 13 (0.85%) Power Query
18 10 (0.65%) Flink
Development Applications
1 192 (12.51%) Jenkins
2 167 (10.88%) Git
3 119 (7.75%) JUnit
4 84 (5.47%) Bitbucket Server
5 65 (4.23%) Artifactory
5 65 (4.23%) Bitbucket
6 52 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 45 (2.93%) Selenium
7 45 (2.93%) WebDriver
8 43 (2.80%) Jasmine
8 43 (2.80%) Karma Test Runner
8 43 (2.80%) Protractor
9 27 (1.76%) JIRA
10 25 (1.63%) Android Studio
11 24 (1.56%) GitLab
12 21 (1.37%) Jaeger
13 19 (1.24%) Maven
14 11 (0.72%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.65%) Gradle
16 9 (0.59%) JMeter
General
1 1,347 (87.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,336 (87.04%) Finance
3 1,294 (84.30%) Law
4 590 (38.44%) Marketing
5 411 (26.78%) Legal
6 260 (16.94%) Banking
7 223 (14.53%) Investment Banking
8 190 (12.38%) Social Skills
9 86 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
10 82 (5.34%) Public Sector
11 69 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
12 39 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 37 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.89%) Private Banking
15 22 (1.43%) Prime Brokerage
16 18 (1.17%) Front Office
17 8 (0.52%) Retail
18 5 (0.33%) Local Government
19 3 (0.20%) Fire and Rescue
19 3 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,244 (81.04%) Software Engineer
2 536 (34.92%) Lead
3 485 (31.60%) Lead Software Engineer
4 406 (26.45%) Java Engineer
4 406 (26.45%) Java Software Engineer
5 246 (16.03%) Python Engineer
5 246 (16.03%) Python Software Engineer
6 179 (11.66%) Lead Java Engineer
7 176 (11.47%) AWS Engineer
8 173 (11.27%) Data Engineer
9 172 (11.21%) AWS Software Engineer
10 171 (11.14%) Big Data Engineer
10 171 (11.14%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 142 (9.25%) Senior
12 131 (8.53%) Full Stack Engineer
12 131 (8.53%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 99 (6.45%) Developer
14 95 (6.19%) Lead Big Data Engineer
15 89 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
16 85 (5.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (21.30%) Spring
2 261 (17.00%) React
3 215 (14.01%) Kafka
4 194 (12.64%) AngularJS
5 167 (10.88%) JSON
6 153 (9.97%) J2EE
7 149 (9.71%) HTML
8 146 (9.51%) Node.js
9 135 (8.79%) JMS
10 130 (8.47%) PySpark
11 128 (8.34%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 123 (8.01%) Web Services
13 118 (7.69%) CSS
14 115 (7.49%) Spring Boot
15 108 (7.04%) XML
16 100 (6.51%) Hibernate
17 97 (6.32%) jQuery
18 96 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
19 80 (5.21%) RESTful
20 68 (4.43%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 672 (43.78%) Algorithms
2 396 (25.80%) Cloud Native
3 159 (10.36%) Onboarding
4 150 (9.77%) Public Cloud
5 124 (8.08%) Management Information System
6 88 (5.73%) Data Structures
7 77 (5.02%) Product Ownership
8 68 (4.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 65 (4.23%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.37%) Replication
12 13 (0.85%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.59%) Market Risk
15 7 (0.46%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
16 5 (0.33%) Hackathon
16 5 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
17 3 (0.20%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 115 (7.49%) Unix
2 99 (6.45%) Linux
3 25 (1.63%) Android
4 12 (0.78%) Windows
5 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,423 (92.70%) Agile
2 1,307 (85.15%) Software Engineering
3 1,289 (83.97%) CI/CD
4 1,202 (78.31%) Operational Stability
5 1,200 (78.18%) SDLC
6 919 (59.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 889 (57.92%) Machine Learning
8 713 (46.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 694 (45.21%) Visualisation
10 430 (28.01%) Risk Management
11 396 (25.80%) Architectural Design
12 369 (24.04%) Information Architecture
13 339 (22.08%) Continuous Delivery
14 233 (15.18%) Microservices
15 212 (13.81%) Test Automation
16 209 (13.62%) Coaching
17 194 (12.64%) Mentoring
18 152 (9.90%) Client Onboarding
19 149 (9.71%) Full Stack Development
20 143 (9.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 818 (53.29%) Java
2 592 (38.57%) Python
3 480 (31.27%) SQL
4 197 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 149 (9.71%) TypeScript
6 137 (8.93%) PL/SQL
7 95 (6.19%) Scala
8 88 (5.73%) Go
9 65 (4.23%) Prolog
9 65 (4.23%) SPARQL
10 35 (2.28%) Kotlin
11 23 (1.50%) C#
12 22 (1.43%) Groovy
13 13 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.46%) Bash
16 6 (0.39%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.39%) R
16 6 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.065%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (3.39%) Degree
2 50 (3.26%) Security Cleared
3 38 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 25 (1.63%) AWS Certification
5 18 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (0.52%) APMG
10 8 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.39%) IIBA
12 3 (0.20%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.20%) PMP
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.13%) CISM
13 2 (0.13%) CISSP
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.87%) Accessibility
2 23 (1.50%) QA
3 16 (1.04%) SLA
4 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.26%) GDPR
5 4 (0.26%) NCSC
6 3 (0.20%) PMO
6 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (5.47%) HDFS
2 67 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.82%) Docker
4 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 227 (14.79%) Terraform
2 219 (14.27%) Kubernetes
3 162 (10.55%) Grafana
4 84 (5.47%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.37%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.37%) Kibana
5 21 (1.37%) Zipkin
6 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.065%) Ansible
7 1 (0.065%) Packer
Vendors
1 206 (13.42%) Databricks
2 204 (13.29%) Oracle
3 167 (10.88%) Splunk
4 158 (10.29%) Dynatrace
5 84 (5.47%) Informatica
6 55 (3.58%) Alteryx
7 54 (3.52%) Cloudera
8 51 (3.32%) Google
9 30 (1.95%) Microsoft
10 18 (1.17%) SaltStack
11 16 (1.04%) Cognos
11 16 (1.04%) Sybase
12 12 (0.78%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.59%) TOWER Software
14 8 (0.52%) Sun
15 6 (0.39%) Qualtrics
16 5 (0.33%) SAP
17 4 (0.26%) GoldenSource
18 3 (0.20%) Mercator
18 3 (0.20%) Salesforce