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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 589 755
Rank change year-on-year +63 +166 -111
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 24 47 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.064% 0.100% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.11% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 27
10th Percentile £443 £177 £346
25th Percentile £542 £449 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £600
90th Percentile £790 £767 -
UK median daily rate £570 £650 £485
% change year-on-year -12.31% +34.02% +2.11%

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 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +67 19 £570 -12.31% 16
West Midlands +20 3 - -
Midlands +19 3 - -
South East +12 1 £525 -22.22%
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Relativity
2 2 (8.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (29.17%) OneDrive
5 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
6 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.33%) Apigee
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (8.33%) IaaS
7 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (8.33%) SaaS
7 2 (8.33%) Serverless
8 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) WebEx
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) EDRMS
1 5 (20.83%) Metadata
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Finance
3 8 (33.33%) Legal
4 6 (25.00%) Banking
5 3 (12.50%) Electronics
5 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 3 (12.50%) Marketing
5 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Consultant
2 7 (29.17%) E-Discovery Consultant
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) E-Discovery Manager
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Security Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Power Apps Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.17%) SAML
2 1 (4.17%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (29.17%) Project Management
3 7 (29.17%) Risk Management
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) Records Management
5 5 (20.83%) Change Management
5 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
5 5 (20.83%) e-Disclosure
5 5 (20.83%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
5 5 (20.83%) ITIL
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
6 4 (16.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 4 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Information Governance
7 3 (12.50%) Analytics
7 3 (12.50%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (20.83%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.17%) GxP
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (20.83%) EnCase
2 5 (20.83%) PingFederate
3 1 (4.17%) CASB
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Nuix
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto