E-Discovery Contracts in England

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for E-Discovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Discovery over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 613 743
Rank change year-on-year +110 +130 -125
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 35 42 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.095% 0.083% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.092% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 31
10th Percentile £432 £140 £313
25th Percentile £535 £481 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +23.71% -3.00%
75th Percentile £756 £713 £606
90th Percentile £850 £808 £613
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £485
% change year-on-year -11.54% +34.02% -5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

E-Discovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in England.

Daily rate trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Discovery in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in England.

Hourly rate trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Discovery within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +100 27 £575 -11.54% 23
Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 - - 1
South West +14 1 - - 7
E-Discovery
UK

E-Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) SharePoint
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (22.86%) OneDrive
5 5 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 4 (11.43%) Apigee
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Functions
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
6 4 (11.43%) GCP
6 4 (11.43%) Serverless
7 2 (5.71%) AWS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.71%) IaaS
7 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) WebEx
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.86%) LAN
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) EDRMS
1 5 (14.29%) Metadata
1 5 (14.29%) Power BI
2 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Finance
3 13 (37.14%) Legal
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Electronics
5 3 (8.57%) Law
5 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.57%) Marketing
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Consultant
1 10 (28.57%) E-Discovery Consultant
2 5 (14.29%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) E-Discovery Manager
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Technology Director
5 2 (5.71%) Applications Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Power Apps Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (5.71%) OAuth
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.86%) SAML
3 1 (2.86%) SPFx
3 1 (2.86%) XML
3 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) PKI
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
2 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (22.86%) Project Management
4 7 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (17.14%) ITIL
5 6 (17.14%) Records Management
5 6 (17.14%) Risk Management
5 6 (17.14%) Runbook
6 5 (14.29%) Change Management
6 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 5 (14.29%) e-Disclosure
6 5 (14.29%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
6 5 (14.29%) Information Governance
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 5 (14.29%) PRINCE2
7 4 (11.43%) CRM
7 4 (11.43%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (11.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Bash
3 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) GCFA
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (14.29%) EnCase
2 5 (14.29%) PingFederate
3 1 (2.86%) CASB
3 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Nuix
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto