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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 125 -
Rank change year-on-year -59 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.068% 0.095% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £454 £333 -
25th Percentile £463 £373 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £456 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -
75th Percentile £590 £523 -
90th Percentile £618 £554 -
England median daily rate £498 £597 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.83% +15.00%

All Process & 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 3,636 1,865 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.96% 88.30% 81.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,293 1,211 1,567
10th Percentile £306 £206 £231
25th Percentile £402 £357 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £639 £688
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 108 177
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.10
25th Percentile £16.72 £14.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% - -19.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £71.56 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Discovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Technical Discovery job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Discovery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Discovery in the Midlands

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 9 June 2026. 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 -58 2 £447 -2.03% 1
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 4
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Handlebars
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Epics
1 2 (66.67%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Governance
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft