Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Technical Discovery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Technical Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.12% 0.056% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,453 1,538 2,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 89.14% 86.45% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 898 1,401
10th Percentile £243 £213 £241
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £482
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.54% +1.37%
75th Percentile £543 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 45 55
10th Percentile £15.09 £13.40 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.70
90th Percentile £46.61 £33.00 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Technical Discovery job vacancy trend in Scotland

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Technical Discovery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Glasgow - 2 £537 -
Technical Discovery
UK

Technical Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (100.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 2 (100.00%) ModelOps
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes