GAP Analysis Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

GAP Analysis
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 68 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 14 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.09% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 0.47% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £407 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.79%
75th Percentile £475 - £675
90th Percentile £612 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% +7.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 642 424 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.68% 89.45% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 222 260
10th Percentile £302 £230 £374
25th Percentile £384 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £520 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% -11.04% +16.91%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £654
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

GAP Analysis job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in South Yorkshire

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Sheffield -10 13 £425 - 1
Barnsley - 1 £450 -
GAP Analysis
Yorkshire

GAP Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
1 10 (71.43%) GCP
2 9 (64.29%) Entra ID
2 9 (64.29%) SaaS
3 8 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (57.14%) Azure AKS
3 8 (57.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Business Analyst
2 8 (57.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) SAML
2 8 (57.14%) OAuth
2 8 (57.14%) OpenID
3 7 (50.00%) JSON
4 6 (42.86%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.14%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (42.86%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) RBAC
2 9 (64.29%) Workshop Facilitation
3 8 (57.14%) Identity Management
3 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (21.43%) Impact Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (14.29%) BDD
7 2 (14.29%) Data Mapping
7 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 2 (14.29%) Epics
7 2 (14.29%) ITSM
7 2 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
7 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (7.14%) CCSK
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (64.29%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Alibaba
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP