Digital Forensics Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Digital Forensics (Digital Forensic Science)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £589 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £574 £500 -
% change year-on-year +14.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.72 - -
South East median hourly rate £15.72 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,379 706 1,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.31% 87.59% 81.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 492 805
10th Percentile £352 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +12.86%
75th Percentile £647 £614 £675
90th Percentile £730 £662 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 48 173
10th Percentile £12.83 £18.87 £13.09
25th Percentile £15.72 £32.94 £26.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% -12.82% +4.27%
75th Percentile £56.21 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.70 £75.00 £78.50
South East median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £47.78
% change year-on-year +127.08% -49.77% -8.29%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Digital Forensics
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Digital Forensics
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Portsmouth - 4 £603 - 1
Digital Forensics
South East

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
1 3 (75.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Police
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) CSOC
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Clearswift
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) Tanium
1 1 (25.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (25.00%) Tripwire