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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 337 360
Rank change year-on-year +58 +23 -22
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 354 426 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.72% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.80% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 289 448
10th Percentile £433 £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 £621
90th Percentile £738 £738 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +20.00% +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 37,484 53,362 80,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.34% 89.87% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,149 37,016 56,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
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% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,744 1,921
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +76 311 £563 +0.31% 102
London +88 165 £550 -4.35% 42
Work from Home +103 147 £550 -4.35% 50
UK excluding London +39 146 £600 +20.00% 58
South East +44 72 £725 +45.00% 14
North of England +28 39 £500 +2.56% 14
North West +10 24 £550 +12.82% 11
Yorkshire +28 16 £500 +5.26% 3
South West +26 16 £600 +9.09% 5
Scotland +32 9 £500 +19.76% 4
Midlands +5 9 £450 -33.82% 13
East of England +18 7 £675 +35.00% 8
West Midlands +2 7 £450 -33.82% 8
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 (5.37%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 21 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.08%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 16 (4.52%) SAP EWM
2 15 (4.24%) SAP QM
3 11 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.85%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.85%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
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 Travel Management
7 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.73%) Dynamics 365
2 33 (9.32%) Azure
3 14 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
4 13 (3.67%) Azure Stack
4 13 (3.67%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.26%) PowerApps
6 7 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.69%) AWS
8 4 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.85%) Miro
9 3 (0.85%) 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%) Boomi
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.41%) 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 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (3.67%) Power BI
2 13 (3.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (1.41%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.85%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.56%) Data Mart
5 2 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.28%) Ingres
6 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (1.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Rational Software Modeler
2 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 120 (33.90%) Finance
2 98 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 64 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (16.38%) Banking
5 38 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.08%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.67%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.11%) Marketing
9 8 (2.26%) Retail
10 7 (1.98%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.41%) Advertising
13 4 (1.13%) Billing
13 4 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.13%) Law
13 4 (1.13%) Legal
13 4 (1.13%) Local Government
13 4 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 149 (42.09%) Analyst
2 121 (34.18%) Business Analyst
3 63 (17.80%) Architect
4 51 (14.41%) Consultant
5 33 (9.32%) Lead
6 32 (9.04%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (6.78%) SAP Consultant
7 24 (6.78%) Senior
8 23 (6.50%) Java Architect
8 23 (6.50%) Java Solutions Architect
9 17 (4.80%) Banking Analyst
9 17 (4.80%) Data Business Analyst
10 16 (4.52%) Data Architect
10 16 (4.52%) Service Analyst
11 14 (3.95%) Data Migration Analyst
11 14 (3.95%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 14 (3.95%) Financial Analyst
11 14 (3.95%) Migration Analyst
11 14 (3.95%) SAP QM Consultant
11 14 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.08%) REST
2 15 (4.24%) XML
3 14 (3.95%) JSON
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.56%) Kafka
5 2 (0.56%) SAP TM
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 Fiori
6 1 (0.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.15%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.24%) Reference Data
3 14 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.85%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.85%) IoT
6 3 (0.85%) NHS
6 3 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (0.85%) 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%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.56%) IPTV
8 1 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.98%) Windows
2 5 (1.41%) Unix
3 3 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (18.93%) User Acceptance Testing
2 61 (17.23%) Change Management
2 61 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (16.38%) Requirements Gathering
4 55 (15.54%) Agile
5 52 (14.69%) Workshop Facilitation
6 47 (13.28%) User Stories
7 45 (12.71%) Business Analysis
7 45 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (12.15%) Migration
9 35 (9.89%) Data Migration
9 35 (9.89%) Data Modelling
10 34 (9.60%) Project Management
11 32 (9.04%) DevOps
12 30 (8.47%) ERP
13 29 (8.19%) Data Management
14 28 (7.91%) Risk Management
15 27 (7.63%) Roadmaps
15 27 (7.63%) Translating Business Requirements
16 26 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.91%) Java
2 22 (6.21%) SQL
3 5 (1.41%) PL/SQL
4 3 (0.85%) 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 57 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.04%) DV Cleared
3 30 (8.47%) Degree
4 27 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.98%) CISSP
7 5 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.13%) CISM
9 3 (0.85%) CRISC
9 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.85%) PMP
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
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
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.47%) QA
3 14 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.69%) NIST
5 5 (1.41%) GRC
5 5 (1.41%) PMO
5 5 (1.41%) SLA
6 4 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.85%) Basel III
7 3 (0.85%) GDPR
8 2 (0.56%) COBIT
8 2 (0.56%) COREP
8 2 (0.56%) FINREP
8 2 (0.56%) ITGC
8 2 (0.56%) NCSC
8 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
9 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 (1.13%) ZABBIX
2 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 53 (14.97%) SAP
2 49 (13.84%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.24%) Oracle
4 10 (2.82%) BT
4 10 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.13%) Cisco
6 4 (1.13%) Splunk
7 3 (0.85%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.85%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.85%) JDA
8 2 (0.56%) Cerner
8 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.56%) Murex
8 2 (0.56%) Sparx
9 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.28%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.28%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.28%) Workday