GAP Analysis Contracts in Scotland

GAP Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 120 148
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +5
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 13 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.41% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.46% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 13
10th Percentile £403 £438 £383
25th Percentile £410 £474 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £500 £418
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +19.76% +1.83%
75th Percentile £463 - £430
90th Percentile £586 £535 £435
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +9.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.80 £50.56 £73.75
% change year-on-year +42.02% -31.45% +180.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing GAP Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for GAP Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GAP Analysis in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for GAP Analysis in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GAP Analysis in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for GAP Analysis in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +9 10 £427 -14.60% 2
Glasgow +4 3 £513 +17.14% 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) IaaS
1 2 (15.38%) PaaS
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) FTP
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Mockito
1 1 (7.69%) Toad
General
1 9 (69.23%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Analyst
1 10 (76.92%) Business Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Service Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Camel
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.69%) JWT
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) CMDB
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Business Analysis
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Minimum Viable Product
2 6 (46.15%) Target Operating Model
3 5 (38.46%) Requirements Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (38.46%) User Research
3 5 (38.46%) User Stories
4 4 (30.77%) Lean UX
4 4 (30.77%) Service Design
4 4 (30.77%) Six Sigma
4 4 (30.77%) Systems Thinking
4 4 (30.77%) User Experience
5 3 (23.08%) Business Case
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Value Proposition
5 3 (23.08%) Wardley Maps
5 3 (23.08%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) IIBA
2 1 (7.69%) CISM
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CRISC
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
1 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
1 1 (7.69%) Okta
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Talend