E-Discovery Contracts in the UK excluding London

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 437 500
Rank change year-on-year +49 +63 -65
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 6 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.052% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.058% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £139 £206
25th Percentile £513 £140 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £272
Median % change year-on-year - +93.37% -45.70%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £338
90th Percentile - £726 £398
UK median daily rate £565 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -13.08% +44.44% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - - £41.95
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year - +132.42% -44.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Midlands - 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -
South East +10 1 £525 -22.22%
E-Discovery
UK

E-Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Relativity
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (66.67%) Apigee
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 4 (66.67%) Power Automate
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
6 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Power Apps Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Applications Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Power Apps Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior SQL Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior SQL Server Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) E-Discovery Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Legal Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) CRM
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GxP
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle