GAP Analysis Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

GAP Analysis
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring GAP Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 65 59
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +19
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 20 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.75% 0.42% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 0.48% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 8
10th Percentile £402 £391 £546
25th Percentile £403 £401 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £419 £604
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -30.65% +20.70%
75th Percentile £494 £434 £634
90th Percentile £608 £442 £647
England median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

GAP Analysis 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 882 621 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.10% 86.49% 78.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 419 446
10th Percentile £213 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £332 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £564
90th Percentile £650 £589 £622
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 53 60
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.97 £11.67
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.35 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +12.99% -41.51%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £26.24
90th Percentile £35.37 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GAP Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

GAP Analysis job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GAP Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GAP Analysis

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GAP Analysis in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in the East Midlands

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GAP Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GAP Analysis

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GAP Analysis within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +12 9 £402 -3.94% 1
Nottinghamshire -15 4 £463 - 1
Derbyshire - 4 £575 -
Leicestershire - 2 - - 1
GAP Analysis
England

GAP Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) Jupyter
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (10.00%) BASE24
2 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (5.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Hudson
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Business Design Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Beowulf
2 2 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) Contract for Difference
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
3 6 (30.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) SDLC
3 6 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) AI
4 5 (25.00%) CRM
5 4 (20.00%) Change Control
5 4 (20.00%) ERP
5 4 (20.00%) Logistics
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (20.00%) Validation
6 3 (15.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 3 (15.00%) ArchiMate
6 3 (15.00%) KYC
6 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (15.00%) Sparx
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Ariba
3 1 (5.00%) JD Edwards
3 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (5.00%) OpenText
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow