GAP Analysis Contracts

GAP Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GAP Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GAP Analysis over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 348 355
Rank change year-on-year +73 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 357 419 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.71% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.79% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 285 452
10th Percentile £434 £409 £363
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year - +9.40% +5.84%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £625
90th Percentile £738 £744 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +21.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £26.03 £55.38 £25.53
25th Percentile £35.02 £61.56 £25.57
Median hourly rate £50.56 £73.75 £26.27
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% +180.74% -30.73%
75th Percentile £65.55 £86.56 £39.95
90th Percentile £74.22 £93.13 £47.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £73.75 £53.00
% change year-on-year +8.47% +39.15% +71.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

GAP Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GAP Analysis in the UK

GAP Analysis
Top 14 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 4 May 2024. 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 +64 314 £563 -2.17% 98
London +84 168 £550 -4.35% 42
Work from Home +108 147 £550 -4.35% 48
UK excluding London +50 146 £605 +21.00% 56
South East +43 73 £725 +44.93% 13
North of England +23 38 £500 +5.26% 13
North West +10 23 £550 +15.79% 9
Yorkshire +30 16 £500 +5.26% 4
South West +22 16 £600 +9.09% 6
Scotland +34 9 £500 +19.76% 4
Midlands +6 9 £450 -33.58% 11
East of England +13 7 £675 +35.00% 7
West Midlands +7 7 £450 -33.82% 6
North East +20 3 - -

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 19 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.84%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.04%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (4.76%) SAP EWM
2 16 (4.48%) SAP QM
3 10 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.84%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.56%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.56%) Temenos Globus
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.92%) Dynamics 365
2 35 (9.80%) Azure
3 14 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
3 14 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.64%) Azure Stack
5 8 (2.24%) PowerApps
6 7 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.68%) AWS
8 5 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.40%) Miro
9 3 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (0.56%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (0.56%) IaaS
10 2 (0.56%) SaaS
11 1 (0.28%) OCI
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.40%) Firewall
2 2 (0.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (0.56%) GPON
2 2 (0.56%) IGMP
2 2 (0.56%) Intranet
2 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.56%) LAN
2 2 (0.56%) MPLS
2 2 (0.56%) VoIP
3 1 (0.28%) BGP
3 1 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SSH
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) VLAN
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (3.64%) Power BI
2 13 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.84%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.56%) Data Mart
5 2 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.28%) Ingres
6 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (1.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Rational Software Modeler
2 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 122 (34.17%) Finance
2 99 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 65 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (16.25%) Banking
5 41 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.04%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.36%) Marketing
9 11 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.24%) Retail
11 7 (1.96%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.40%) Advertising
14 4 (1.12%) Back Office
14 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.12%) Law
14 4 (1.12%) Legal
14 4 (1.12%) Local Government
14 4 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 151 (42.30%) Analyst
2 123 (34.45%) Business Analyst
3 62 (17.37%) Architect
4 53 (14.85%) Consultant
5 33 (9.24%) Lead
6 31 (8.68%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (7.28%) Senior
8 25 (7.00%) SAP Consultant
9 23 (6.44%) Java Architect
9 23 (6.44%) Java Solutions Architect
10 17 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
10 17 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
11 16 (4.48%) Data Architect
11 16 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (4.48%) Service Analyst
12 15 (4.20%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 15 (4.20%) Financial Analyst
12 15 (4.20%) SAP QM Consultant
13 14 (3.92%) Data Migration Business Analyst
13 14 (3.92%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.04%) REST
2 15 (4.20%) XML
3 14 (3.92%) JSON
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.56%) Kafka
5 2 (0.56%) SAP PI
5 2 (0.56%) Web Services
6 1 (0.28%) Ajax
6 1 (0.28%) HTML
6 1 (0.28%) IDoc
6 1 (0.28%) jQuery
6 1 (0.28%) JWT
6 1 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.28%) OAuth
6 1 (0.28%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.28%) SAML
6 1 (0.28%) SAP TM
6 1 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.04%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.20%) Reference Data
3 14 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.84%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.84%) IoT
6 3 (0.84%) NHS
6 3 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (0.84%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.56%) CMDB
7 2 (0.56%) Derivative
7 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.56%) IPTV
7 2 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.96%) Windows
2 5 (1.40%) Unix
3 3 (0.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (19.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 61 (17.09%) Change Management
2 61 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (16.25%) Requirements Gathering
4 57 (15.97%) Agile
5 53 (14.85%) Workshop Facilitation
6 48 (13.45%) User Stories
7 46 (12.89%) Business Analysis
8 45 (12.61%) Migration
8 45 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (10.36%) Data Migration
10 36 (10.08%) Data Modelling
11 34 (9.52%) Project Management
12 33 (9.24%) DevOps
13 31 (8.68%) ERP
14 29 (8.12%) Data Management
15 28 (7.84%) Risk Management
16 27 (7.56%) Data Mapping
16 27 (7.56%) Integration Testing
16 27 (7.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.84%) Java
2 24 (6.72%) SQL
3 5 (1.40%) PL/SQL
4 3 (0.84%) VBA
5 2 (0.56%) ABAP
5 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.56%) Python
6 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.28%) Groovy
6 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.96%) DV Cleared
3 31 (8.68%) Degree
4 28 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.96%) CISSP
7 6 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.12%) CISM
9 3 (0.84%) CRISC
9 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.84%) PMP
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.56%) CBAP
10 2 (0.56%) CCNP
10 2 (0.56%) CISA
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.28%) ACCA
11 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.40%) QA
3 14 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.68%) NIST
5 5 (1.40%) GRC
5 5 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.40%) PMO
5 5 (1.40%) SLA
6 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.84%) Basel III
6 3 (0.84%) GDPR
7 2 (0.56%) COBIT
7 2 (0.56%) COREP
7 2 (0.56%) FINREP
7 2 (0.56%) ITGC
7 2 (0.56%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (1.12%) ZABBIX
2 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 55 (15.41%) SAP
2 50 (14.01%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.20%) Oracle
4 10 (2.80%) BT
4 10 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.12%) Cisco
6 4 (1.12%) Splunk
7 3 (0.84%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.84%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.84%) JDA
8 2 (0.56%) Cerner
8 2 (0.56%) CyberSource
8 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.56%) Murex
8 2 (0.56%) Sparx
9 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.28%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.28%) Workday