Technical Discovery Job Trends in the South East

Technical Discovery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 293 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.034% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile £74,000 - -
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,845 10,433 8,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.93% 81.46% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,244 5,639 5,640
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,150 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
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 the South East

Job postings citing Technical Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the South East

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Technical Discovery in the South East

Technical Discovery
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Discovery within the South East 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
Kent - 2 £50,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £80,000 -
Thames Valley - 1 £80,000 - 3
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Nutanix
2 2 (66.67%) OVHcloud
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Presales
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Catalogue
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware