Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in Central London

Technical Discovery
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Technical Discovery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - 155
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.16% - 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £575
75th Percentile £769 - £588
90th Percentile £818 - -
London median daily rate £675 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +28.57% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Technical 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 1,813 2,153 2,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.74% 91.93% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 1,376 1,983
10th Percentile £321 £363 £358
25th Percentile £424 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 18
10th Percentile £18.15 £18.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.40 £16.71
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +30.84% -35.54%
75th Percentile £50.75 £61.25 £45.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £117.10 £57.73
London median hourly rate £30.50 £35.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.08% -5.33% +5.63%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Technical Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in Central London

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Discovery in Central London over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Discovery in Central London

Technical 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 Technical Discovery within the Central London region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
City of London - 3 £675 - 2
Southwark - 1 £800 -
Technical Discovery
London

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI