Technical Discovery Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technical Discovery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding 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 520 639 570
Rank change year-on-year +119 -69 +266
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 4 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.011% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.014% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £50,500 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £66,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% +5.98%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,000 - -
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,959 42,870 31,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.75% 79.17% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16,149 22,358 23,292
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the UK excluding London

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Technical Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Technical Discovery in the UK excluding London

Technical Discovery
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East - 3 £50,000 - 7
East of England - 1 £70,000 - 1
Technical Discovery
UK

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (50.00%) OVHcloud
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Presales
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware