GAP Analysis Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

GAP Analysis
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring GAP Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £404 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £642 - -
North West median daily rate £408 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -20.49% -6.82% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 257 143 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.31% 84.12% 70.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 92 76
10th Percentile £150 £129 £176
25th Percentile £297 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £431 £420
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +2.50% -16.00%
75th Percentile £581 £545 £518
90th Percentile £675 £685 £600
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 9
10th Percentile £14.68 - £16.24
25th Percentile £17.92 £12.21 £18.11
Median hourly rate £25.38 £14.76 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +72.01% -35.50% +20.39%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.44 £40.00
90th Percentile - - £54.00
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

GAP Analysis job vacancy trend in Merseyside

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GAP Analysis in Merseyside over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in Merseyside

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Liverpool - 3 £408 - 3
GAP Analysis
North West

GAP Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 3 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality