Digital Forensics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 382 366
Rank change year-on-year +43 -16 +149
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 6 9 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.043% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.051% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 30
10th Percentile £189 £738 £363
25th Percentile £389 £758 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £800 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +45.45% +18.92%
75th Percentile £601 £815 £586
90th Percentile £647 £824 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.69 £26.25
Median hourly rate - £14.46 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -47.42% -
75th Percentile - £15.23 £29.38
90th Percentile - - £30.00
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £14.46 £27.50
% change year-on-year +276.90% -47.42% -42.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,614 17,495 20,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.12% 82.80% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,696 10,287 13,885
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £380 £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 £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.86% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 2,163 1,285
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £12.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.56 £15.64
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
Contract 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 Digital Forensics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
North of England - 4 £575 - 27
North West - 4 £575 - 17
South West +30 1 - - 20
South East - 1 £500 - 42
Digital Forensics
UK

Digital 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) FMCG
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (83.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 4 (66.67%) SOAR
4 2 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 1 (16.67%) Protective Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Security Management
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk