Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in Essex

Data Discovery
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex 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 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 0.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 - £490

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 106 106 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 89.83% 81.54% 82.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 129
10th Percentile £196 £178 £208
25th Percentile £323 £217 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -30.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £525 £450 £580
90th Percentile £600 £563 £615
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £31.67
25th Percentile - £29.17 £43.28
Median hourly rate £18.87 £59.50 £56.53
Median % change year-on-year -68.29% +5.25% +2.78%
75th Percentile £39.88 £77.50 £76.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £79.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.82 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -42.96% +101.92% -5.67%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Data Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in Essex

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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