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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 15 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.48% 0.40% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 0.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £401 £365 -
25th Percentile £407 £379 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £402 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £460 £424 -
90th Percentile £504 £438 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -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 840 434 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 82.84% 86.45% 79.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 298 416
10th Percentile £199 £200 £188
25th Percentile £363 £320 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £544 £509 £550
90th Percentile £625 £578 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 21 63
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +23.37% +3.98%
75th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -14 6 £404 +0.50% 3
Derbyshire - 6 £413 -
Nottinghamshire - 3 £475 -
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 6 (40.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (6.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Hudson
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Design Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Process Manager
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Supply Chain Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Beowulf
2 4 (26.67%) Contract for Difference
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) SDLC
2 6 (40.00%) AI
2 6 (40.00%) Data Science
2 6 (40.00%) Use Case
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) ArchiMate
5 3 (20.00%) BPMN
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
5 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 2 (13.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 2 (13.33%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (40.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) NVIDIA
2 3 (20.00%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (20.00%) Sparx
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Ariba
4 1 (6.67%) OpenText
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Zoho