Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Technical Discovery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 124 - 153
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.038%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £675 - £575

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,643 1,947 2,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 91.80% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,216 1,844
10th Percentile £325 £371 £363
25th Percentile £423 £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 £773 £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%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the City of London

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Discovery in the City of London

Technical Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of 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
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Technical Discovery
Central London

Technical 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
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