Digital Forensics Contract Job Trends in Central London

Digital Forensics (Digital Forensic Science)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.041% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £555 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £685 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £538 £563 £250
% change year-on-year -4.44% +125.00% -54.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Digital Forensics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 1,793 2,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.12% 93.87% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 1,210 1,365
10th Percentile £360 £318 £363
25th Percentile £450 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 28
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.15 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £24.83
Median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £119.65
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Forensics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Central London

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Digital Forensics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 September 2026. 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
City of London - 1 £620 - 12
Digital Forensics
London

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) IISP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS