Technical Discovery Job Trends in the Midlands

Technical Discovery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Technical Discovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 273 -
Rank change year-on-year +62 - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.017% 0.022% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.028% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -12.50% +77.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,892 7,263 4,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.85% 81.63% 93.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,136 3,208 3,580
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +5.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £64,750 £66,967 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.50%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technical Discovery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Technical Discovery job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Technical Discovery

Technical 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 Technical Discovery within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 November 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 +43 1 £35,000 -12.50% 2
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) VMware