Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Discovery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Technical 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 364 396 451
Rank change year-on-year +32 +55 +135
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.006% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.007% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £518 - £426
25th Percentile £611 £513 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £728 £538 £619
90th Percentile £801 - £713
England median daily rate £475 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.48% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in London

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Discovery in London

Technical 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 Technical 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 - 3 £675 - 2
Technical Discovery
England

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Product Vision
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI