GAP Analysis Contracts in the North West

GAP Analysis
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring GAP Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GAP Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 114 128
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 15 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 0.83% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.97% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 21
10th Percentile £438 £463 £401
25th Percentile - £519 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £545 £601 £680
90th Percentile £638 £625 £733
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £50.56 £73.75
% change year-on-year +38.46% -31.45% +180.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GAP Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GAP Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GAP Analysis in the North West.

Daily rate trend for GAP Analysis in the North West

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GAP Analysis in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GAP Analysis in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for GAP Analysis in the North West

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Manchester +4 6 £583 +5.91% 12
Cheshire +3 5 £500 - 4
Merseyside - 2 £450 -
Lancashire +2 1 £550 -4.35% 8
GAP Analysis
England

GAP Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Local Government
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
1 10 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) SAP Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) HR Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (6.67%) SAP HR Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SAP HR Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) User Stories
3 5 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Demand Forecasting
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (20.00%) Business Transformation
5 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Business Case
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Release Management
6 2 (13.33%) Service Design
6 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Use Case
7 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
1 1 (6.67%) VB
1 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CIPD
2 1 (6.67%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) MCSA
2 1 (6.67%) MCSE
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Ariba
2 2 (13.33%) Fujitsu
3 1 (6.67%) McAfee
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Symantec
3 1 (6.67%) VMware