Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Technical Discovery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 186 - 202
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.074% - 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% - 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +128.57%
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.48% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 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%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the North of England

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Technical 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 Technical 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
North West - 2 £420 - 1
North East - 1 £488 - 1
Technical Discovery
England

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Hudson
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Case
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow