Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in the North East

Technical Discovery
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.48% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 255 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.57% 91.40% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 103 154
10th Percentile £225 £311 £316
25th Percentile £400 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £579
90th Percentile £616 £734 £671
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 35 10
10th Percentile £12.49 £13.75 £16.93
25th Percentile £14.31 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £18.09 £29.77 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.25% +14.50% +48.57%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £43.07
90th Percentile £44.00 £70.00 £46.18
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the North East

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared