Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Discovery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 184 168 185
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +65
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 5 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.096% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.11% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 17
10th Percentile £438 £448 -
25th Percentile £461 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.45% -11.64%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £600
90th Percentile £580 £564 £627
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -11.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,580 3,493 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.79% 84.21% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,340 1,958 2,995
10th Percentile £263 £300 £283
25th Percentile £375 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% - -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 179 204
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.51 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.38 £17.74
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.97% +35.87%
75th Percentile £37.56 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.58 £70.00 £62.70
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in the North of England

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Discovery in the North of England

Data Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire -10 3 £500 -9.09% 1
North West -12 2 £513 +2.50%
Data Discovery
England

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Macie
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (40.00%) Compliance Audit
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Database Security
1 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
1 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP