Hybrid/Remote Technical Discovery Job Trends

Technical Discovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work 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 416 474 -
Rank change year-on-year +58 - -
Permanent jobs citing Technical Discovery 8 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.048% 0.026% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.030% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £54,313 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £73,750 -
90th Percentile £116,500 - -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,435 20,155 23,072
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.46% 87.99% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,541 12,114 18,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,460 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -4.00% +1.08%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,627
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -

Technical Discovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Discovery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Technical Discovery
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Technical Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Technical Discovery

Technical Discovery
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Technical Discovery salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (25.00%) OVHcloud
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
3 1 (12.50%) PSTN
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Presales Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Presales Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) IVR
2 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Presales
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Autotask
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Avaya
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Genesys
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Ubiquiti