Digital Forensics Contracts in London

Digital Forensics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Digital Forensics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Forensics over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 379 453
Rank change year-on-year +18 +74 +157
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 14 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.043% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.049% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 18
10th Percentile £313 - £518
25th Percentile £316 £225 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £613
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -46.94% +25.64%
75th Percentile £578 £463 £750
90th Percentile £594 £575 £850
England median daily rate £500 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.36% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £14.46 £27.50
% change year-on-year +276.90% -47.42% -42.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,653 14,416 21,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.87% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 10,213 15,864
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 195 232
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -11.80% +12.59%
75th Percentile £49.63 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in London

Digital Forensics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Forensics in London

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Forensics in London

Digital Forensics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Forensics in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Central London - 2 £550 - 4
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
1 5 (35.71%) HTTP
1 5 (35.71%) SMTP
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Law
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Police
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Forensic Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Digital Media
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (21.43%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (7.14%) Insider Threat
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) SIEM
2 9 (64.29%) Incident Response
3 8 (57.14%) Security Operations
4 7 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (42.86%) Threat Detection
5 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (35.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 5 (35.71%) Security Architecture
6 5 (35.71%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 4 (28.57%) E-Discovery
7 4 (28.57%) Forensic Analysis
7 4 (28.57%) QMS
7 4 (28.57%) Quality Management
7 4 (28.57%) Validation
8 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
8 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
8 3 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
9 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 7 (50.00%) GCIH
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) CCNA
3 4 (28.57%) CCSP
3 4 (28.57%) CEH
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (28.57%) CISSP
3 4 (28.57%) CompTIA CySA+
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) GCIA
3 4 (28.57%) OSCP
4 3 (21.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (21.43%) EnCE
4 3 (21.43%) GCFA
4 3 (21.43%) GIAC
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) QA
3 2 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 2 (14.29%) NIST 800
4 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (7.14%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) CSIRT
2 3 (21.43%) EnCase
2 3 (21.43%) FTK
3 1 (7.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (35.71%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) Cellebrite
3 3 (21.43%) Darktrace
3 3 (21.43%) Nuix
4 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk