E-Discovery Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring E-Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.096% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £729 - £192
25th Percentile £734 - £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 - £462
Median % change year-on-year - - +277.35%
75th Percentile £784 - £631
90th Percentile £786 - £732
South East median daily rate £750 - £462
% change year-on-year - - +277.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,830 1,780 2,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.48% 89.04% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,046 1,460
10th Percentile £266 £276 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 51 103
10th Percentile £15.23 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.00 £30.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +14.11% +136.81%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £63.90
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.00 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

E-Discovery job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing E-Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing E-Discovery

E-Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 - 3
E-Discovery
South East

E-Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Forensic Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCFA
1 2 (100.00%) GCFE
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GREM
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) EnCase
1 2 (100.00%) FTK
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft