Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in the South West

Technical Discovery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.48% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,787 2,175 2,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.62% 84.04% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 1,274 1,959
10th Percentile £213 £300 £312
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £707 £723 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 208 256
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.70 £21.50
25th Percentile £18.78 £48.00 £46.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +7.57% +4.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the South West

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Technical Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Somerset - 3 £425 - 2
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 3 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft