Application Discovery Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Application Discovery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Application Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 366 395
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 +99
Contract jobs citing Application Discovery 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.006% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.007% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile - £313 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £513
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -36.62% +57.77%
75th Percentile - £338 £594
90th Percentile - - £725
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £501
% change year-on-year +13.89% -10.09% +38.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Application 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,069 14,533 18,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.10% 83.61% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,460 8,229 12,279
10th Percentile £225 £243 £258
25th Percentile £368 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £605
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,548 1,025 1,291
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% -7.83% +75.00%
75th Percentile £39.63 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.15 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.13% -9.60% +37.21%

Application Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Discovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Application Discovery job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Application Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Discovery

Application Discovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Discovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Discovery

Application Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Discovery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
South East - 2 £500 -
Application Discovery
UK

Application Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Packaging
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM