Computer Forensics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Forensics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Computer Forensics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Forensics over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 378 411
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Computer Forensics 2 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.011% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.013% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £729 - £385
25th Percentile £734 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +45.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £784 £538 -
90th Percentile £786 - £675
UK median daily rate £775 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +47.62% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £30.00
UK median hourly rate - £26.97 £27.50
% change year-on-year - -1.93% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer 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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,687 15,011 19,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.11% 82.65% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 8,893 12,773
10th Percentile £238 £245 £260
25th Percentile £367 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,395 1,400 1,211
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.30 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

Computer Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Forensics in the UK excluding London

Computer Forensics
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Forensics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Forensics

Computer Forensics
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Forensics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Forensics

Computer Forensics
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Forensics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 2 £763 - 1
Computer Forensics
UK

Computer Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 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%) Cyber Resilience
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) E-Discovery
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