Data Discovery Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Discovery
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 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 76 71 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.13% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 -
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 683 719 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.68% 85.70% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 458 817
10th Percentile £275 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 20
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile - £14.19 £14.78
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +21.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £74.06 £33.75 £21.92
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £27.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.36 £17.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year +27.76% -13.58% +6.58%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in West Yorkshire

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Data 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 Data Discovery within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -5 1 £500 -9.09% 1
Data Discovery
Yorkshire

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk