GAP Analysis Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

GAP Analysis
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring GAP Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 52 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 13 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.11% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 0.51% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.79%
75th Percentile £475 - £675
90th Percentile £624 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £438 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +32.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 590 389 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.78% 90.05% 96.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 205 244
10th Percentile £313 £250 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.48% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £637 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £477 £520 £585
% change year-on-year -8.32% -11.04% +16.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

GAP Analysis job vacancy trend in Sheffield

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GAP Analysis in Sheffield over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in Sheffield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

GAP Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
1 10 (76.92%) GCP
2 9 (69.23%) Entra ID
2 9 (69.23%) SaaS
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (61.54%) Azure AKS
3 8 (61.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Business Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) SAML
2 8 (61.54%) OAuth
2 8 (61.54%) OpenID
3 7 (53.85%) JSON
4 6 (46.15%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.69%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) RBAC
2 9 (69.23%) Workshop Facilitation
3 8 (61.54%) Identity Management
3 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (53.85%) Privileged Identity Management
5 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) BDD
6 2 (15.38%) Data Mapping
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) ITSM
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.69%) CCSK
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISM
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (53.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Alibaba
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP