Digital Forensics Contracts in the South East

Digital Forensics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.056% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £425 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -43.33% +36.36% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,199 4,018 4,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.91% 82.66% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,997 2,464 3,358
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £622
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 319 233
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +98.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.60 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the South East

Digital Forensics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Digital Forensics in the South East

Digital Forensics
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Berkshire - 2 £500 - 1
Thames Valley - 2 £500 - 2
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Behavioural Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CFCE
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm