Digital Forensics Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Digital Forensics
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £700 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 138 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 76.25% 79.77% 78.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 86 88
10th Percentile £133 £143 £144
25th Percentile £154 £203 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +7.81% -17.65%
75th Percentile £511 £545 £498
90th Percentile £638 £650 £608
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.09% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 25
10th Percentile £16.54 £13.07 -
25th Percentile £22.32 £16.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -5.73% +2.78%
75th Percentile - £18.08 £34.32
90th Percentile £29.29 £24.23 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +69.23% +41.46% -37.31%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Digital Forensics
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Liverpool - 1 £700 -
Digital Forensics
North West

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA