GAP Analysis Contract Job Trends in London

GAP Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GAP Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 228 240
Rank change year-on-year -35 +12 +51
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 182 143 145
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.06% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.15% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 91 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £473
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £732
90th Percentile £716 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GAP Analysis job vacancy trend in London

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GAP Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GAP Analysis

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GAP Analysis in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in London

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GAP Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GAP Analysis

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Central London -13 16 £575 -17.86% 12
West London -16 5 £656 +31.25% 1
North London - 1 - -
South London - 1 £550 -
East London - 1 £387 -
GAP Analysis
England

GAP Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 16 (8.79%) Confluence
2 15 (8.24%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.30%) CMS
4 2 (1.10%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 13 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.65%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.65%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.10%) Actimize
4 2 (1.10%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.10%) SAP HCM
4 2 (1.10%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.10%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.55%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.55%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (14.29%) Azure
2 23 (12.64%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.14%) AWS
4 12 (6.59%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.85%) Collibra
7 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.75%) SaaS
8 4 (2.20%) GCP
8 4 (2.20%) OCI
8 4 (2.20%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.10%) GitHub
11 1 (0.55%) Intacct
11 1 (0.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) DSL
1 2 (1.10%) S/MIME
1 2 (1.10%) SSL
1 2 (1.10%) VPN
1 2 (1.10%) Wireless
2 1 (0.55%) MPLS
2 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.55%) WAN
2 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.64%) Power BI
2 10 (5.49%) Metadata
3 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.30%) Tableau
5 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.10%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (12.09%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Git
2 2 (1.10%) GitLab
2 2 (1.10%) PowerBuilder
2 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
3 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.55%) TestDirector
General
1 79 (43.41%) Finance
2 60 (32.97%) Social Skills
3 53 (29.12%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (10.44%) Banking
6 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (5.49%) Front Office
8 10 (5.49%) Legal
8 10 (5.49%) Retail
9 7 (3.85%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.75%) Billing
10 5 (2.75%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.20%) Automotive
11 4 (2.20%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.65%) Back Office
12 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (46.15%) Analyst
2 70 (38.46%) Business Analyst
3 21 (11.54%) Consultant
4 19 (10.44%) Senior
5 17 (9.34%) Architect
6 14 (7.69%) Lead
7 11 (6.04%) Governance Analyst
7 11 (6.04%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (5.49%) Senior Business Analyst
9 8 (4.40%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.85%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.85%) Functional Consultant
11 6 (3.30%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Active Directory Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Architect
12 5 (2.75%) Security Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Systems Analyst
13 4 (2.20%) Migration Engineer
13 4 (2.20%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.20%) VML
2 3 (1.65%) Middleware
2 3 (1.65%) SOAP
3 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.10%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.10%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.10%) JWT
3 2 (1.10%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.10%) pytest
3 2 (1.10%) React
3 2 (1.10%) REST
3 2 (1.10%) WebSockets
3 2 (1.10%) YAML
4 1 (0.55%) Kafka
4 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.55%) OpenID
4 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 13 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.40%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.40%) Taxonomies
5 7 (3.85%) CMDB
5 7 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.75%) Replication
8 4 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.20%) Life Science
8 4 (2.20%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.65%) Derivative
9 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.20%) Windows
2 3 (1.65%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (30.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 53 (29.12%) Workshop Facilitation
4 50 (27.47%) Agile
4 50 (27.47%) Migration
5 48 (26.37%) Requirements Gathering
6 42 (23.08%) Business Analysis
7 41 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (21.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 37 (20.33%) Validation
10 34 (18.68%) User Stories
11 33 (18.13%) Data Migration
12 29 (15.93%) Process Improvement
13 28 (15.38%) Analytics
14 26 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
15 24 (13.19%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (11.54%) Decision-Making
17 19 (10.44%) Translating Business Requirements
18 18 (9.89%) AI
18 18 (9.89%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.44%) SQL
2 4 (2.20%) Python
3 3 (1.65%) Java
3 3 (1.65%) R
4 2 (1.10%) ABAP
4 2 (1.10%) Cypher
4 2 (1.10%) SHACL
4 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.55%) Korn
5 1 (0.55%) Swift
5 1 (0.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 28 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.79%) Degree
4 5 (2.75%) CISM
4 5 (2.75%) CISSP
4 5 (2.75%) IIBA
5 4 (2.20%) CRISC
5 4 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.65%) ACCA
7 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CBAP
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.95%) NIST
3 9 (4.95%) QA
4 8 (4.40%) MiFID
5 7 (3.85%) SLA
6 6 (3.30%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.20%) EMIR
7 4 (2.20%) GAAP
7 4 (2.20%) GDPR
7 4 (2.20%) GRC
7 4 (2.20%) IFRS
8 3 (1.65%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.65%) NCSC
8 3 (1.65%) PMO
9 2 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (1.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (6.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.10%) Argo
2 2 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (0.55%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.44%) ServiceNow
3 16 (8.79%) Oracle
4 11 (6.04%) SAP
5 7 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.20%) BMC
6 4 (2.20%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.20%) Remedy
7 3 (1.65%) Ariba
7 3 (1.65%) Murex
8 2 (1.10%) Databricks
8 2 (1.10%) Duck Creek
8 2 (1.10%) FactSet
8 2 (1.10%) Google
8 2 (1.10%) IBM
8 2 (1.10%) jBASE
8 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.10%) Talend
8 2 (1.10%) Temenos
8 2 (1.10%) Workday