Data Discovery Job Trends in the City of London

Data Discovery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London 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 134 168 177
Rank change year-on-year +34 +9 +120
Permanent jobs citing Data Discovery 1 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.059% 0.034% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.037% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £54,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £81,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £87,500
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £82,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.24% +26.92% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Discovery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,621 2,707 3,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.03% 93.25% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 1,802 2,880
10th Percentile £39,615 £43,525 £41,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -1.69% +1.72%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in the City of London

Data Discovery
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft