E-Discovery Contracts in the South West

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring E-Discovery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-Discovery over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% - 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £408 - £133
25th Percentile £411 - £134
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £138
75th Percentile £472 - £139
90th Percentile £534 - £140
England median daily rate £525 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +34.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,654 3,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 83.02% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 1,694 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 336 332
10th Percentile £18.42 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.08 £27.50 £16.89
Median hourly rate £62.75 £54.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -12.20% +26.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in the South West

E-Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in the South West.

Daily rate trend for E-Discovery in the South West

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Discovery in the South West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for E-Discovery in the South West

E-Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Dorset - 6 £425 -
Gloucestershire - 1 £550 - 2
E-Discovery
England

E-Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
2 6 (85.71%) OneDrive
2 6 (85.71%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Skype
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 6 (85.71%) B2B
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (42.86%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow