Digital Forensics Contracts in the North West

Digital Forensics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - +87
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 4 0 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.20% - 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 22
10th Percentile £159 - £468
25th Percentile £315 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.18%
75th Percentile £626 - £583
90th Percentile £657 - £624
England median daily rate £500 £325 £550
% change year-on-year +53.85% -40.91% +17.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,791 2,352 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.46% 83.82% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 264 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.75 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% -8.33% +28.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the North West

Digital Forensics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Digital Forensics in the North West

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in the North West over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Forensics in the North West

Digital Forensics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Forensics in the North West

Digital Forensics
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Manchester - 4 £575 - 7
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) FMCG
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (100.00%) SOAR
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Kusto Query Language
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft