E-Discovery Contracts in England

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring E-Discovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-Discovery over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 517 589
Rank change year-on-year +30 +72 +181
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 20 24 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.066% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.077% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 23
10th Percentile £350 £443 £140
25th Percentile £413 £542 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -12.31% +20.93%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £706
90th Percentile £595 £790 £808
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £650
% change year-on-year -7.89% -12.31% +34.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.75 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

E-Discovery 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,651 31,309 42,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 85.64% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,798 20,359 30,046
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 2,212 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £54.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.70 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
London +30 10 £550 -3.51% 33
North of England - 5 £480 -
North West - 4 £438 -
Midlands +7 2 £350 - 4
West Midlands +6 2 £350 - 4
South West - 2 £488 -
Yorkshire - 1 £480 -
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 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Relativity
2 1 (5.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (30.00%) OneDrive
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.00%) Google Docs
5 1 (5.00%) Google Drive
5 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) PSTN
2 1 (5.00%) Skype
2 1 (5.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) EDRMS
General
1 10 (50.00%) Legal
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Law
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Military
6 1 (5.00%) Electronics
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
1 5 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) E-Discovery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) E-Discovery Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Compliance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Functional Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Management Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Digital Media
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Quality Management
2 6 (30.00%) Digital Forensics
2 6 (30.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 6 (30.00%) QMS
2 6 (30.00%) Validation
3 5 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) RBAC
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) EnCE
2 4 (20.00%) MCSE
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) EnCase
1 4 (20.00%) FTK
1 4 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (20.00%) WSUS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Cellebrite
2 4 (20.00%) Citrix
2 4 (20.00%) Nuix
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas