Technical Discovery Job Trends in the West Midlands

Technical Discovery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West 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 168 211 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.028% 0.037% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.044% -
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
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,990 4,522 3,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.04% 82.82% 92.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 2,051 2,498
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,189 £40,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £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 West Midlands

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

Technical Discovery job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Technical Discovery
Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham +26 1 £35,000 -12.50% 2
Technical Discovery
England

Technical Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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