Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Technical Discovery
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Technical Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.089% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £498 £597 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.83% +15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 879 568 666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.41% 88.34% 78.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 388 446
10th Percentile £200 £225 £200
25th Percentile £393 £338 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £423 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -0.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile £563 £500 £550
90th Percentile £638 £590 £623
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 39 59
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.58
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.19 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.51 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +8.88% -31.53%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.38 £26.15
90th Percentile £32.45 £37.41 £44.00
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Discovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Technical Discovery job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Technical Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Derbyshire - 1 £575 - 2
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft