Application Discovery Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Application Discovery
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Application Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Application Discovery 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.24% - 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £280
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.76%
75th Percentile - - £290
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £280
% change year-on-year - - +31.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 724 676 1,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.12% 85.46% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 424 799
10th Percentile £290 £327 £324
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 18
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile - £19.19 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +41.03% -7.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £37.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.00 £30.02
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%

Application Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Application Discovery job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Application Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Application Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Application Discovery

Application Discovery
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Leeds - 2 £550 -
Application Discovery
Yorkshire

Application Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Case
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CloudEndure