Forensic Analysis Contracts in London

Forensic Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Forensic Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forensic Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 371 467
Rank change year-on-year +12 +96 +127
Contract jobs citing Forensic Analysis 16 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.031% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.035% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £420 £509 £410
25th Percentile £518 £522 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £800
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -29.69% +33.33%
75th Percentile £687 £622 £850
90th Percentile £780 £646 -
England median daily rate £514 £663 £800
% change year-on-year -22.45% -17.19% +42.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Forensic Analysis 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 12,568 14,469 21,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.87% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,414 10,214 15,860
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 247 195 231
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -12.35% +12.50%
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% - +61.35%

Forensic Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Forensic Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Forensic Analysis in London

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Forensic Analysis in London.

Daily rate trend for Forensic Analysis in London

Forensic Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Forensic Analysis in London over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Forensic Analysis in London

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Forensic Analysis in London.

Hourly rate trend for Forensic Analysis in London

Forensic Analysis
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 Forensic Analysis within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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
West London - 2 - -
Central London - 1 - - 2
Forensic Analysis
England

Forensic Analysis
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 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Akamai
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Network Security
2 5 (31.25%) HTTP
3 4 (25.00%) Firewall
3 4 (25.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (12.50%) Law
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Information
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Security
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Digital Media
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Incident Response
2 6 (37.50%) Application Security
3 5 (31.25%) QMS
3 5 (31.25%) Quality Management
3 5 (31.25%) Security Operations
3 5 (31.25%) Validation
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Forensics
5 3 (18.75%) E-Discovery
5 3 (18.75%) Information Security
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) SIEM
5 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Forensics
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CEH
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) EnCE
3 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (6.25%) CCSP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) GDPR
3 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) EnCase
1 2 (12.50%) FTK
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Imperva
2 2 (12.50%) Cellebrite
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Nuix
3 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce