GAP Analysis Contract Job Trends in South Wales

GAP Analysis
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring GAP Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.30% - 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% - 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.61%
75th Percentile £675 - £538
90th Percentile - - £545
Wales median daily rate £650 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 306 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 85.33% 81.38% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 165 273
10th Percentile £195 £160 £176
25th Percentile £281 £213 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £683 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 42 21
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £17.99 £25.27 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.82% -6.98% +36.13%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £29.82 £49.88 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £26.58
% change year-on-year -18.59% -5.28% +47.68%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

GAP Analysis job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GAP Analysis

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing GAP Analysis

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Cardiff - 1 £650 -
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Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum