The first table below looks at the demand for Digital Forensics skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Forensics over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Forensics
Rank 381 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.013% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17065 19078 22245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.84% 71.75% 70.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11706 12560 14646
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 324 348
Average hourly rate £26.66 £26.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.53% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £45.00 £53.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Digital Forensics across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Digital Forensics Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Digital Forensics across the London region.

London Digital Forensics Daily Rate Trend

Digital Forensics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Digital Forensics also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Digital Forensics.

1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) Internet
2 4 (50.00%) ASP
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) HTTP
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) Ajax
2 4 (50.00%) E-Discovery
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) PKI
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Forensics
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) SMTP
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 3 (37.50%) SSL
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Wireless
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (25.00%) 802.11
4 2 (25.00%) OSPF

Digital Forensics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Digital Forensics also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Digital Forensics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) ASP
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) OLE
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Internet
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) SMTP
2 3 (37.50%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 2 (25.00%) 802.11
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) RIP
3 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Forensic Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) ScrumMaster
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Security Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Forensics
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
2 2 (25.00%) GIAC
2 2 (25.00%) GCIA
2 2 (25.00%) GCIH
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (25.00%) COBIT
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Nmap
2 1 (12.50%) Snort
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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