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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 342 365
Rank change year-on-year +81 +23 -29
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 386 393 632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.78% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 254 431
10th Percentile £442 £413 £383
25th Percentile £500 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.42%
75th Percentile £683 £675 £645
90th Percentile £738 £732 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £489
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.47% +8.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £18.68 - £25.53
25th Percentile £24.02 £92.50 £25.57
Median hourly rate £28.00 £95.00 £26.27
Median % change year-on-year -70.53% +261.63% -41.62%
75th Percentile £47.75 £97.50 £39.95
90th Percentile £72.50 - £47.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £95.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -70.53% +79.25% -

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +94 345 £556 -3.26% 115
London +104 181 £550 -4.35% 58
UK excluding London +49 163 £600 +14.29% 60
Work from Home +110 154 £550 -4.35% 44
South East +34 72 £725 +38.10% 14
North of England +30 43 £500 -2.44% 12
North West +19 26 £550 -4.35% 7
South West +16 22 £600 +2.56% 12
Yorkshire +30 18 £500 +5.26% 5
Midlands +1 13 £475 -26.92% 14
West Midlands 0 11 £475 -30.15% 8
Scotland +30 10 £500 +17.65% 5
East of England +13 9 £638 +27.50% 3
North East +13 3 - - 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 15 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.30%) Confluence
2 5 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.26%) IIS
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 22 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (5.44%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (4.40%) SAP EWM
2 16 (4.15%) SAP QM
3 15 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.30%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.78%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.78%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.78%) SAP GTS
6 3 (0.78%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.52%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.52%) Temenos Globus
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.26%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (9.84%) Azure
2 37 (9.59%) Dynamics 365
3 15 (3.89%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 13 (3.37%) Azure Stack
6 8 (2.07%) PowerApps
7 7 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.81%) Miro
8 6 (1.55%) AWS
9 4 (1.04%) SaaS
10 3 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.52%) IaaS
11 2 (0.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.26%) Azure Service Fabric
12 1 (0.26%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.26%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.52%) Broadband
2 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (0.52%) GPON
2 2 (0.52%) IGMP
2 2 (0.52%) Intranet
2 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.52%) LAN
2 2 (0.52%) MPLS
2 2 (0.52%) VoIP
3 1 (0.26%) BGP
3 1 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) SSH
3 1 (0.26%) SSL
3 1 (0.26%) VLAN
3 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (3.63%) Power BI
3 13 (3.37%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (1.30%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.30%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.04%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.78%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.26%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.26%) Ingres
7 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.81%) JIRA
General
1 130 (33.68%) Finance
2 108 (27.98%) Social Skills
3 67 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (15.03%) Banking
5 43 (11.14%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.40%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.11%) Marketing
9 11 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.85%) Retail
10 8 (2.07%) Legal
11 7 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.55%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.30%) Advertising
13 5 (1.30%) Back Office
13 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.04%) Law
14 4 (1.04%) Military
14 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (42.75%) Analyst
2 138 (35.75%) Business Analyst
3 60 (15.54%) Architect
4 57 (14.77%) Consultant
5 38 (9.84%) Lead
6 31 (8.03%) Solutions Architect
7 30 (7.77%) Senior
8 27 (6.99%) SAP Consultant
9 22 (5.70%) Java Architect
9 22 (5.70%) Java Solutions Architect
10 19 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (4.66%) Financial Analyst
12 17 (4.40%) Banking Analyst
13 16 (4.15%) Data Architect
13 16 (4.15%) Finance Business Analyst
13 16 (4.15%) Service Analyst
14 15 (3.89%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 15 (3.89%) SAP QM Consultant
15 13 (3.37%) Business IT Analyst
15 13 (3.37%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.66%) REST
2 15 (3.89%) XML
3 14 (3.63%) JSON
4 4 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.78%) SAP PI
6 2 (0.52%) Ajax
6 2 (0.52%) HTML
6 2 (0.52%) Kafka
6 2 (0.52%) Web Services
7 1 (0.26%) CSS
7 1 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.26%) IDoc
7 1 (0.26%) jQuery
7 1 (0.26%) JWT
7 1 (0.26%) OAuth
7 1 (0.26%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.26%) SAML
7 1 (0.26%) SAP TM
7 1 (0.26%) SOAP
7 1 (0.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.18%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.89%) Reference Data
3 14 (3.63%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.04%) FMCG
7 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.78%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.78%) IoT
8 3 (0.78%) NHS
8 3 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.52%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.52%) CMDB
9 2 (0.52%) IPTV
9 2 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.52%) Replication
10 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.81%) Windows
2 5 (1.30%) Unix
3 3 (0.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (18.91%) User Acceptance Testing
2 68 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (17.62%) Requirements Gathering
3 67 (17.36%) Change Management
4 64 (16.58%) Agile
5 56 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 56 (14.51%) Workshop Facilitation
6 55 (14.25%) Migration
7 54 (13.99%) Business Analysis
7 54 (13.99%) User Stories
8 45 (11.66%) ERP
9 42 (10.88%) Data Migration
9 42 (10.88%) Data Modelling
10 37 (9.59%) Project Management
11 34 (8.81%) DevOps
11 34 (8.81%) Risk Management
12 33 (8.55%) Data Mapping
13 32 (8.29%) Translating Business Requirements
14 30 (7.77%) Validation
15 29 (7.51%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (7.25%) SQL
2 27 (6.99%) Java
3 6 (1.55%) PL/SQL
4 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.78%) VBA
5 2 (0.52%) Python
6 1 (0.26%) ABAP
6 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.26%) Groovy
6 1 (0.26%) R
6 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.29%) Degree
2 32 (8.29%) DV Cleared
3 29 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.81%) CISSP
6 6 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.04%) CISM
8 3 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.78%) PMP
9 2 (0.52%) ACCA
9 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.52%) CBAP
9 2 (0.52%) CCNP
9 2 (0.52%) CISA
9 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.52%) CRISC
9 2 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.22%) QA
3 15 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.85%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.81%) PMO
6 6 (1.55%) NIST
7 5 (1.30%) GRC
7 5 (1.30%) SLA
8 4 (1.04%) GDPR
8 4 (1.04%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.78%) Basel III
10 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.52%) COBIT
10 2 (0.52%) COREP
10 2 (0.52%) FINREP
10 2 (0.52%) ITGC
10 2 (0.52%) NCSC
10 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Firmware
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.04%) ZABBIX
2 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 68 (17.62%) SAP
2 46 (11.92%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.15%) Oracle
4 10 (2.59%) BT
4 10 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.04%) Cisco
6 4 (1.04%) CyberSource
6 4 (1.04%) Guidewire
6 4 (1.04%) Splunk
7 3 (0.78%) Ariba
7 3 (0.78%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.78%) Duck Creek
7 3 (0.78%) GoldenSource
7 3 (0.78%) JDA
8 2 (0.52%) OneTrust
8 2 (0.52%) Sage
8 2 (0.52%) Sparx
9 1 (0.26%) Cerner
9 1 (0.26%) Murex