Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Discovery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data 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 92 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.076% - 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £490
75th Percentile £613 - £510
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -11.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,174 1,242 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.55% 81.93% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 448 874
10th Percentile £200 £199 £221
25th Percentile £385 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £596 £550 £623
90th Percentile £688 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 356 367
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.26 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.82 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +101.92% -5.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.94% +51.21%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in the East of England

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Discovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Essex - 1 £575 -
Data Discovery
England

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet