Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Technical Discovery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 150 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.037% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £306 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.48% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,254 2,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.25% 83.02% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 1,421 1,729
10th Percentile £235 £255 £250
25th Percentile £362 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £699 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 71 100
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.52 £13.14
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% -18.18% +55.90%
75th Percentile £26.51 £43.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.30 £55.00 £67.63
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the Midlands

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 1
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Process Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Migrations
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow