GAP Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

GAP Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 287 307
Rank change year-on-year +47 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing GAP Analysis 163 154 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.68% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.76% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 104 155
10th Percentile £441 £402 £342
25th Percentile £500 £437 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £680 £548
90th Percentile - £743 £660
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £22.33 - -
25th Percentile - £92.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £95.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.53% +79.25% -
75th Percentile £57.63 £97.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £95.00 £26.27
% change year-on-year -70.53% +261.63% -41.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

GAP Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GAP Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London

GAP Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London

GAP Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London

GAP Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London

GAP Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GAP Analysis in the UK excluding London

GAP Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +34 72 £725 +38.10% 14
North of England +32 43 £500 - 12
North West +16 26 £550 +10.00% 7
South West +19 22 £600 +2.56% 12
Yorkshire +28 18 £500 +5.26% 5
Midlands 0 13 £475 -26.92% 14
West Midlands +2 11 £475 -30.15% 9
Scotland +30 10 £500 +17.65% 5
East of England +16 9 £638 +27.50% 3
North East +12 3 - - 1
GAP Analysis
UK

GAP Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (9.20%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (6.13%) MS Visio
3 7 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (9.20%) SAP EWM
1 15 (9.20%) SAP QM
2 4 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.84%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.61%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.61%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.61%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.88%) Dynamics 365
2 13 (7.98%) Azure
3 9 (5.52%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.91%) PowerApps
5 6 (3.68%) Azure Stack
5 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.23%) AWS
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.61%) Boomi
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
1 2 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) Power BI
2 6 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (1.84%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.61%) Ingres
5 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 63 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.15%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (16.56%) Finance
4 19 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.75%) Telecoms
6 10 (6.13%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.29%) Marketing
9 5 (3.07%) Retail
10 4 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.84%) Legal
11 3 (1.84%) Military
12 2 (1.23%) Billing
12 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Local Government
13 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.61%) Electronics
13 1 (0.61%) Law
13 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 37 (22.70%) Analyst
1 37 (22.70%) Architect
2 31 (19.02%) Business Analyst
2 31 (19.02%) Consultant
3 27 (16.56%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (14.11%) Lead
5 22 (13.50%) Java Architect
5 22 (13.50%) Java Solutions Architect
6 20 (12.27%) SAP Consultant
7 14 (8.59%) SAP QM Consultant
8 10 (6.13%) Senior
9 8 (4.91%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.91%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 7 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.68%) SAP EWM Consultant
12 5 (3.07%) Change Manager
12 5 (3.07%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (3.07%) Workstream Lead
13 4 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Lead
13 4 (2.45%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.29%) XML
2 6 (3.68%) JSON
2 6 (3.68%) REST
3 1 (0.61%) Ajax
3 1 (0.61%) HTML
3 1 (0.61%) jQuery
3 1 (0.61%) SAP TM
3 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.68%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.68%) Reference Data
3 5 (3.07%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.84%) NHS
4 3 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (1.84%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.23%) Replication
6 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.61%) Life Science
6 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Windows
2 3 (1.84%) Unix
3 2 (1.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (22.70%) Workshop Facilitation
3 35 (21.47%) User Acceptance Testing
4 27 (16.56%) Agile
4 27 (16.56%) Translating Business Requirements
5 24 (14.72%) Integration Testing
6 23 (14.11%) Business Analysis
6 23 (14.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 22 (13.50%) ERP
7 22 (13.50%) Project Management
8 19 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (11.66%) Data Modelling
8 19 (11.66%) Migration
8 19 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (11.04%) Change Management
9 18 (11.04%) User Stories
10 15 (9.20%) Data Migration
10 15 (9.20%) Supply Chain Management
11 14 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (7.98%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.11%) Java
2 4 (2.45%) SQL
3 3 (1.84%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 31 (19.02%) DV Cleared
3 21 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.91%) Degree
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.84%) CISSP
6 3 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.23%) PMP
8 1 (0.61%) CBAP
8 1 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.07%) QA
3 4 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.45%) PMO
4 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.23%) NCSC
4 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.61%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (21.47%) SAP
2 29 (17.79%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.13%) BT
4 4 (2.45%) Oracle
4 4 (2.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.23%) Cisco
5 2 (1.23%) JDA
5 2 (1.23%) Sage
5 2 (1.23%) Sparx
6 1 (0.61%) Brio
6 1 (0.61%) Cerner
6 1 (0.61%) Civica
6 1 (0.61%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.61%) Splunk
6 1 (0.61%) Workday