Technical Discovery Job Trends in London

Technical Discovery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 371 476 474
Rank change year-on-year +105 -2 +344
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 9 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.076% 0.021% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.023% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £47,375 £36,625 £140,000
25th Percentile £59,938 £37,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £38,750 £180,000
Median % change year-on-year +135.48% -78.47% +437.31%
75th Percentile £113,438 £39,688 -
90th Percentile £117,500 £39,875 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £180,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -62.50% +300.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,157 17,099 20,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 94.15% 89.55% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,043 10,267 16,654
10th Percentile £38,197 £40,528 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.38%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,800 £62,325
% change year-on-year -6.46% -5.66% +3.87%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in London

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Technical Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Technical Discovery in London

Technical Discovery
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Discovery within the London 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
Central London - 5 £75,000 - 2
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Google Compute Engine
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
1 1 (11.11%) PBX
1 1 (11.11%) PSTN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Presales Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blog
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) IVR
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Presales
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (11.11%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (11.11%) Fintech
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Autotask
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Avaya
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Genesys
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Ubiquiti