Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Discovery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data 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 362 370 396
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 15 10 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.056% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.068% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 27
10th Percentile £413 £374 £463
25th Percentile £418 £378 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £486
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -9.98% -13.60%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £590
90th Percentile £605 £541 £627
UK median daily rate £494 £450 £534
% change year-on-year +9.72% -15.73% -14.56%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data 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 13,918 14,783 18,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.22% 83.32% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,384 8,386 12,507
10th Percentile £230 £239 £260
25th Percentile £363 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,489 1,143 1,263
10th Percentile £14.19 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +81.28%
75th Percentile £42.16 £65.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in the UK excluding London

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Discovery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Discovery in the UK excluding London

Data Discovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Data 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 Data Discovery within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -16 5 £500 -2.44% 1
Wales - 5 - -
Yorkshire -10 3 £500 -9.09% 1
South West - 3 £425 - 3
North West -12 2 £513 +2.50%
Scotland - 1 £450 - 3
East of England - 1 £575 -
Data Discovery
UK

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
2 1 (6.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
1 3 (20.00%) ShareGate
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Macie
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Metadata
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Welsh Language
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Data Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) Data Quality Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) Data Quality Specialist
3 5 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) LDAP
1 3 (20.00%) OAuth
1 3 (20.00%) OpenID
1 3 (20.00%) SAML
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) Next.js
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Metadata Management
4 5 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
4 5 (33.33%) Data Management
4 5 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
4 5 (33.33%) RBAC
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) Information Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
6 3 (20.00%) Runbook
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
1 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Puppet
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) SAP