Data Discovery Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Discovery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 228 - 233
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Discovery 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.018% - 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% - 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £53,500
75th Percentile - - £55,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £71,250 £58,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +21.79% -22.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,837 7,867 5,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.04% 79.64% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,860 3,798 3,826
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,800 £62,325
% change year-on-year -6.46% -5.66% +3.87%

Data Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Discovery in the Midlands

Data Discovery
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Discovery within the Midlands 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
West Midlands - 1 £80,000 - 1
Data Discovery
England

Data Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 Macie
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Pega
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk