Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Data Discovery
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds 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 67 62 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.16% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 554 608 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.21% 85.51% 90.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 397 683
10th Percentile £290 £350 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +4.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 13
10th Percentile £25.05 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £13.87 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £19.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% - -10.59%
75th Percentile £26.13 £36.25 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £42.25 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +21.62% -7.50%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in Leeds

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk