Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Discovery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 121 157
Rank change year-on-year +3 +36 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.23% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.26% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £600 -
25th Percentile £463 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.87% +9.14% -12.00%
75th Percentile £488 £601 £575
90th Percentile - £601 -
Central London median daily rate £488 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -18.78% +9.14% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,955 2,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.30% 91.87% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,221 1,854
10th Percentile £325 £368 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £763 £792 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 17
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.88 £21.25 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.15 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +40.00% -34.52%
75th Percentile £50.25 £102.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -18.57% +30.84% -35.54%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in the City of London

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Document Management
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle