GAP Analysis Contract Job Trends in Wales

GAP Analysis
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 42 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.45% - 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 1.20%
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 - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £675 - £538
90th Percentile - - £545
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 375 356 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 83.71% 77.90% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 203 318
10th Percentile £185 £141 £174
25th Percentile £266 £211 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £575
90th Percentile £639 £650 £639
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 47 22
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £15.07
25th Percentile £16.89 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -18.59% -5.28% +47.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - £49.25 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

GAP Analysis job vacancy trend in Wales

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales - 1 £650 - 3
GAP Analysis
UK

GAP Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Police
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (50.00%) RMADS