Knowledge Discovery Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Knowledge Discovery (including Knowledge Extraction)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Knowledge Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 341 -
Rank change year-on-year -76 - -
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Discovery 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.023% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.026% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £414 -
25th Percentile £563 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% - -
75th Percentile £588 £462 -
90th Percentile - £466 -
UK median daily rate £613 £438 -
% change year-on-year +40.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Knowledge 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 18,282 11,621 17,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.95% 90.52% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,335 10,957
10th Percentile £263 £243 £235
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 725 1,925
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £12.41
25th Percentile £18.14 £19.97 £15.17
Median hourly rate £28.50 £31.76 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +0.83% -12.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.81 £71.01
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% - -7.29%

Knowledge Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Knowledge Discovery job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Knowledge Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Knowledge 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 Knowledge Discovery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
Yorkshire - 1 £575 - 1
South East - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £575 - 1
Knowledge Discovery
UK

Knowledge 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Scrum Master
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Transformation Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow