Technical Discovery Job Trends

Technical Discovery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 649 775 726
Rank change year-on-year +126 -49 +422
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 15 10 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.013% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.016% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 8
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,500 £72,875
25th Percentile £54,313 £40,000 £155,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £180,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -62.50% +300.00%
75th Percentile £110,313 £71,875 -
90th Percentile £115,000 £73,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% +5.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,932 62,432 55,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.75% 81.70% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 24,639 34,370 42,483
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Technical Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Discovery in the UK

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Technical Discovery in the UK

Technical Discovery
Top 6 Job Locations

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 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
England +122 14 £75,000 +11.11% 22
London +105 9 £91,250 +135.48% 10
Work from Home +58 8 £80,000 +14.29% 13
UK excluding London +119 4 £60,000 -14.29% 18
South East - 3 £50,000 - 7
East of England - 1 £70,000 - 1

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (20.00%) IaaS
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (13.33%) Nutanix
4 2 (13.33%) OVHcloud
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) IP Telephony
2 2 (13.33%) PSTN
2 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (13.33%) VoIP
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Presales Consultant
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) GCP Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Presales Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Blog
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) IVR
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Presales
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) API Integration
4 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) CRM
4 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Use Case
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Autotask
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Avaya
2 2 (13.33%) Genesys
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Ubiquiti