Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technical Discovery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 369 - 423
Rank change year-on-year - - +84
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 8 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.051% - 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £318 - £280
25th Percentile £369 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile £492 - £530
90th Percentile £527 - £572
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +7.69%
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 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the UK excluding London

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Discovery in the UK excluding London

Technical Discovery
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Technical 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 Technical 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
South West - 3 £425 - 2
North of England - 3 £488 - 2
North West - 2 £420 - 1
South East - 1 £568 - 7
Midlands - 1 £338 - 2
North East - 1 £488 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £338 - 1
Technical Discovery
UK

Technical 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
1 3 (37.50%) ShareGate
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) OpenID
1 3 (37.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Data Discovery
3 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Information Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Business Case
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Server Migrations
4 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
1 3 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco