Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in Reading

Technical Discovery
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Technical Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.099% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 - -
75th Percentile £376 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £509 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 873 548 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 86.61% 92.26% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 322 572
10th Percentile £319 £301 £213
25th Percentile £417 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year - +3.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £719 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 2 49
10th Percentile £57.50 £33.82 £19.63
25th Percentile £80.75 £41.05 £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.00 £53.10 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -13.81% -5.23%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.14 £76.99
90th Percentile £105.50 £72.37 £87.47
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.54 £61.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +35.84% +0.81% +5.50%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Technical Discovery job vacancy trend in Reading

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5