GAP Analysis Contracts

GAP Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 315 279 341
Rank change year-on-year -36 +62 +22
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 219 352 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.81% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.94% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 233 291
10th Percentile £375 £431 £409
25th Percentile £425 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +9.40%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £664
90th Percentile £775 £738 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £610 £500
% change year-on-year -18.03% +22.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - £26.03 £55.38
25th Percentile £31.64 £35.02 £61.56
Median hourly rate £71.80 £50.56 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.02% -31.45% +180.74%
75th Percentile £83.20 £65.55 £86.56
90th Percentile £85.99 £74.22 £93.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.82 £80.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year -36.48% +8.47% +39.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GAP Analysis in the UK

GAP Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GAP Analysis in the UK

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in the UK

GAP Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GAP Analysis in the UK

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GAP Analysis over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GAP Analysis in the UK

GAP Analysis
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England -32 187 £525 -6.67% 143
London -20 106 £525 -4.55% 82
UK excluding London +4 82 £500 -18.03% 81
Work from Home -26 75 £530 -3.64% 99
North of England +9 28 £500 - 26
South East -5 19 £650 -10.34% 22
North West +9 15 £500 -9.09% 17
Scotland +17 13 £428 -14.50% 6
South West +43 11 £625 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire +1 9 £463 -7.50% 7
East of England +29 6 £438 -35.19% 5
Midlands +18 5 £488 +8.33% 13
West Midlands +11 4 £556 +23.61% 12
North East +1 4 £528 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £447 - 1

GAP Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (7.76%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (0.91%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.91%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.57%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.37%) Camtasia
5 3 (1.37%) Trello
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.83%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.37%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.37%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.91%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.91%) Shopify
5 1 (0.46%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 27 (12.33%) Azure
2 19 (8.68%) AWS
3 13 (5.94%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (5.02%) GCP
6 6 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.28%) Miro
8 4 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.37%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.37%) SaaS
9 3 (1.37%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.91%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.91%) Google Drive
10 2 (0.91%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.91%) Lucidchart
10 2 (0.91%) OCI
10 2 (0.91%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.28%) Firewall
2 4 (1.83%) DNS
3 3 (1.37%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.37%) WAN
4 2 (0.91%) Network Security
4 2 (0.91%) SSL
4 2 (0.91%) Wireless
5 1 (0.46%) FTP
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) Intranet
5 1 (0.46%) LAN
5 1 (0.46%) MQTT
5 1 (0.46%) VoIP
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.48%) Power BI
2 7 (3.20%) Tableau
3 5 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.37%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.37%) Data Mart
4 3 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (1.37%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.91%) DB2
5 2 (0.91%) GIS
6 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.46%) DTS
6 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.46%) MS Access
6 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (13.24%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) MLflow
2 1 (0.46%) Mockito
2 1 (0.46%) Toad
General
1 89 (40.64%) Social Skills
2 64 (29.22%) Finance
3 37 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.76%) Banking
6 11 (5.02%) Retail
7 10 (4.57%) Front Office
8 9 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (3.20%) Legal
10 6 (2.74%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.28%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.37%) Advertising
13 3 (1.37%) Electronics
13 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (49.32%) Analyst
2 102 (46.58%) Business Analyst
3 40 (18.26%) Consultant
4 23 (10.50%) Architect
4 23 (10.50%) Senior
5 19 (8.68%) Senior Analyst
6 16 (7.31%) Senior Business Analyst
7 13 (5.94%) Data Analyst
8 12 (5.48%) Technical Analyst
8 12 (5.48%) Technical Business Analyst
9 8 (3.65%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (3.20%) Business IT Analyst
10 7 (3.20%) Data Business Analyst
10 7 (3.20%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 7 (3.20%) IT Analyst
10 7 (3.20%) IT Business Analyst
10 7 (3.20%) Lead
10 7 (3.20%) SAP Analyst
10 7 (3.20%) SAP Business Analyst
11 6 (2.74%) Agile Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.91%) Murex MxML
2 2 (0.91%) VML
3 1 (0.46%) .NET
3 1 (0.46%) ADO
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Camel
3 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.46%) BAPI
3 1 (0.46%) EDI
3 1 (0.46%) JWT
3 1 (0.46%) Middleware
3 1 (0.46%) OAuth
3 1 (0.46%) OpenID
3 1 (0.46%) REST
3 1 (0.46%) SAML
3 1 (0.46%) SOAP
3 1 (0.46%) Spring
3 1 (0.46%) Spring Batch
3 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.39%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.28%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.28%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.28%) Derivative
4 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.28%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.83%) IoT
5 4 (1.83%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.37%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.37%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.91%) PMI
7 2 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.20%) Linux
1 7 (3.20%) Windows
2 4 (1.83%) Unix
3 2 (0.91%) Android
3 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.59%) Agile
2 57 (26.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 53 (24.20%) Business Analysis
4 51 (23.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 50 (22.83%) User Stories
6 44 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (16.44%) Requirements Gathering
8 33 (15.07%) Risk Management
9 30 (13.70%) Migration
9 30 (13.70%) Roadmaps
10 28 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (10.96%) Process Improvement
11 24 (10.96%) Validation
12 22 (10.05%) Data Modelling
13 20 (9.13%) Change Management
13 20 (9.13%) Scrum
14 19 (8.68%) Acceptance Criteria
14 19 (8.68%) Actionable Insight
14 19 (8.68%) Analytics
14 19 (8.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.33%) SQL
2 8 (3.65%) Python
3 4 (1.83%) PL/SQL
3 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.91%) C
4 2 (0.91%) Java
4 2 (0.91%) VB
4 2 (0.91%) VBScript
5 1 (0.46%) ABAP
5 1 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (10.50%) Degree
1 23 (10.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.57%) CISSP
4 8 (3.65%) IIBA
4 8 (3.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 7 (3.20%) CISA
5 7 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.74%) CISM
7 5 (2.28%) CBAP
7 5 (2.28%) CRISC
8 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.37%) PMP
10 2 (0.91%) ACCA
10 2 (0.91%) MCP
10 2 (0.91%) MCSA
10 2 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.05%) NIST
2 21 (9.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.94%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.11%) GDPR
4 9 (4.11%) GRC
5 7 (3.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (3.20%) QA
6 6 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.28%) NIST 800
8 4 (1.83%) MiFID
8 4 (1.83%) NCSC
9 3 (1.37%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.91%) IFRS
10 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.91%) SEPA
11 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.46%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.91%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.91%) Docker
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.83%) RSA Archer
3 2 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.91%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (0.91%) NetBackup
3 2 (0.91%) SCCM
4 1 (0.46%) CASB
4 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.46%) QRadar
4 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (13.24%) SAP
2 24 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.68%) Oracle
4 10 (4.57%) Google
5 7 (3.20%) Murex
5 7 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.83%) Okta
7 3 (1.37%) Ariba
7 3 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.37%) Fujitsu
7 3 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.37%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.37%) Symantec
7 3 (1.37%) Talend
7 3 (1.37%) VMware
7 3 (1.37%) Workday
8 2 (0.91%) Informatica
8 2 (0.91%) McAfee
8 2 (0.91%) Veritas