E-Discovery Contracts in England

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 608 751
Rank change year-on-year +93 +143 -129
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 33 48 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.096% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.11% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 29
10th Percentile £428 £140 £271
25th Percentile £532 £481 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +23.71% -3.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £600
90th Percentile £813 £780 £613
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year - +132.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in England.

Daily rate trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Discovery in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in England.

Hourly rate trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +102 26 £570 -12.31% 20
Midlands - 5 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 - - 1
E-Discovery
UK

E-Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (24.24%) SharePoint
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (21.21%) OneDrive
5 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.12%) Apigee
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Functions
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (12.12%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
6 4 (12.12%) GCP
6 4 (12.12%) Power Automate
6 4 (12.12%) Serverless
7 2 (6.06%) AWS
7 2 (6.06%) IaaS
7 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) WebEx
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.03%) LAN
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) EDRMS
1 5 (15.15%) Metadata
1 5 (15.15%) Power BI
2 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 13 (39.39%) Finance
3 12 (36.36%) Legal
4 6 (18.18%) Banking
5 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Electronics
5 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.09%) Marketing
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.06%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Consultant
1 10 (30.30%) E-Discovery Consultant
2 5 (15.15%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) E-Discovery Manager
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Applications Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Power Apps Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Developer
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (6.06%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.03%) SAML
3 1 (3.03%) XML
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) PKI
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Data Loss Prevention
2 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.21%) Project Management
4 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) Records Management
4 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 5 (15.15%) Change Management
5 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
5 5 (15.15%) e-Disclosure
5 5 (15.15%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
5 5 (15.15%) Information Governance
5 5 (15.15%) ITIL
5 5 (15.15%) Migration
5 5 (15.15%) PRINCE2
5 5 (15.15%) Runbook
6 4 (12.12%) CRM
6 4 (12.12%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (12.12%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (15.15%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (15.15%) EnCase
2 5 (15.15%) PingFederate
3 1 (3.03%) CASB
3 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Nuix
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto