Technical Discovery Job Trends in England

Technical Discovery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England 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 617 739 702
Rank change year-on-year +122 -37 +380
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 14 10 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.015% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.018% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,500 £72,875
25th Percentile £52,875 £40,000 £155,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £180,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -62.50% +300.00%
75th Percentile £111,875 £71,875 -
90th Percentile £115,000 £73,750 -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £180,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% -62.50% +300.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Technical 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,365 55,907 49,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.78% 82.20% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 21,959 30,789 37,808
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,800 £62,325
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -5.66% +3.87%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Technical Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in England

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Technical Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Discovery in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Discovery in England

Technical Discovery
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Discovery within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +105 9 £91,250 +135.48% 10
South East - 3 £50,000 - 7
East of England - 1 £70,000 - 1
Technical Discovery
UK

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (21.43%) IaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (14.29%) Nutanix
4 2 (14.29%) OVHcloud
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) IP Telephony
3 1 (7.14%) PBX
3 1 (7.14%) PSTN
3 1 (7.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Presales Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) GCP Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Presales Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Blog
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) IVR
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Presales
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) API Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) CRM
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
5 2 (14.29%) Use Case
5 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Autotask
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
1 2 (14.29%) Google
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Avaya
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) Genesys
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Ubiquiti