Digital Forensics Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Digital Forensics (Digital Forensic Science)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth 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 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.58% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £589 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £603 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.72 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £15.72 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 114 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 70.36% 74.51% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 59 91
10th Percentile £313 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £427 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £658
90th Percentile £750 £675 £850
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 106
10th Percentile £13.48 £32.10 £51.06
25th Percentile £45.56 £41.00 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -16.67% +3.09%
75th Percentile £62.95 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.55 £63.13 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £36.50 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -27.00% -12.82% +4.27%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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