Digital Forensics Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Digital Forensics
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 2 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% - 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £428 - £524
25th Percentile £431 - £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £550
75th Percentile £531 - £559
90th Percentile £543 - £576
North West median daily rate £500 £294 £550
% change year-on-year +69.85% -46.48% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 614 441 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.97% 86.81% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 269 230
10th Percentile £268 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £385 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £496 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -5.50% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 25
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.05 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.53 £21.05 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.43 £27.39 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% +21.55% +61.04%
75th Percentile £40.00 £39.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.55 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.04% +1.94% +38.92%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Digital Forensics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 10 November 2025. 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
Chester - 2 £475 - 1
Digital Forensics
North West

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript