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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 345 385
Rank change year-on-year -97 +40 +23
Contract jobs citing Application Discovery 3 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.015% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.017% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £301 - £370
25th Percentile £303 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +8.70% +67.27%
75th Percentile £328 - £503
90th Percentile £334 - £615
UK median daily rate £463 £550 £460
% change year-on-year -15.91% +19.57% +53.33%

All Process & 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 20,674 11,899 17,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.63% 90.45% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,309 7,359 10,286
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £677 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,211 895 2,171
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.29 £16.95 £15.43
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 2026. 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 West - 3 £313 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) AdminStudio
1 2 (66.67%) InstallShield
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Packager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Manager
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Compatibility Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Software Distribution
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft