Hybrid/Remote Technical Discovery Contract Job Trends

Technical Discovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 304 336 410
Rank change year-on-year +32 +74 +184
Contract jobs citing Technical Discovery 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.008% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.009% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £298 - £440
25th Percentile £359 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £481 £538 £588
90th Percentile £527 - £595
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,022 11,103 17,907
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.21% 88.01% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,003 7,038 12,625
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 279 424
10th Percentile £12.77 £19.53 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £30.63 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Technical Discovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Discovery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Technical Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Discovery over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Technical Discovery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 3 (37.50%) ShareGate
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
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%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
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
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) BPMN
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) 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
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow