Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Discovery
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.097% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £601 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% - -
75th Percentile £513 £601 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £495 £563 £534
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.34% -14.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Discovery 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,844 1,957 2,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.00% 92.22% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 1,226 1,678
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £432 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £774 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 26
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.10 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £39.50
90th Percentile £46.53 £43.75 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.47% +16.67% -20.00%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Discovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Data Discovery job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Discovery within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. 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
City of London -4 1 - - 3
Data Discovery
London

Data Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft