Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in London

Data Discovery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 355 379 435
Rank change year-on-year +24 +56 +115
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 14 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 17
10th Percentile £263 £533 £430
25th Percentile £463 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £534
Median % change year-on-year -16.70% +12.41% -21.18%
75th Percentile £525 £669 £603
90th Percentile £600 £740 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,471 14,541 19,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.50% 89.20% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,234 9,567 14,180
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 185 232
10th Percentile £17.62 £17.35 £18.18
25th Percentile £25.02 £24.15 £21.19
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% -5.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £47.25 £56.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £75.90
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in London

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Discovery in London

Data Discovery
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Discovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Contract Job Locations in London

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 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
Central London +7 3 £475 -20.87% 2
Data Discovery
England

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Collibra
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Metadata
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Data Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Records Management Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Security Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) Regular Expression
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
1 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) ETL
3 4 (28.57%) Data Management
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Insight
5 2 (14.29%) Data Collection
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Data Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Presales
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Databricks
3 3 (21.43%) Informatica
4 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 1 (7.14%) NetApp
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) Qualys
5 1 (7.14%) Varonis