Digital Forensics Contracts in London

Digital Forensics
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Digital Forensics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Forensics over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 461 605
Rank change year-on-year +70 +144 -136
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 4 22 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.084% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.092% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 3
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £438 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +41.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £817 £484
90th Percentile £625 £840 £490
England median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.46 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -47.42% -21.43% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Digital Forensics 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in London

Digital Forensics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Forensics in London

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Forensics in London

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Handler
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Responder
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) E-Discovery
4 1 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Offensive Security
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (25.00%) CCFP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) CHFI
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ECIH
2 1 (25.00%) ECSA
2 1 (25.00%) EnCE
2 1 (25.00%) GAWN
2 1 (25.00%) GCIA
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) GREM
2 1 (25.00%) GSNA
2 1 (25.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (25.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco