E-Discovery Contract Job Trends in the South East

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring E-Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 - 205
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.073% - 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% - 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £475 - £192
25th Percentile £569 - £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £462
Median % change year-on-year - - +277.35%
75th Percentile £781 - £631
90th Percentile £785 - £732
England median daily rate £550 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

E-Discovery 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 3,607 3,525 4,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.23% 85.91% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 2,159 3,050
10th Percentile £221 £253 £214
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.24% +2.29%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 162 246
10th Percentile £14.71 £16.48 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.83 £27.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.23% +7.07% +21.84%
75th Percentile £41.00 £70.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing E-Discovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

E-Discovery job vacancy trend in the South East

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing E-Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing E-Discovery

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Discovery in the South East over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Discovery in the South East

E-Discovery
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 E-Discovery within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 November 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 £763 -
Thames Valley - 2 £763 -
Surrey - 1 £425 -
E-Discovery
England

E-Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Google Workspace
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Forensic Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Mac OS
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Forensics
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (66.67%) Document Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (33.33%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) CCSP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) GCFA
1 2 (66.67%) GCFE
1 2 (66.67%) GCIH
1 2 (66.67%) GREM
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) EnCase
1 2 (66.67%) FTK
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (66.67%) Darktrace
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft