E-Discovery Contracts in the UK excluding London

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 418 495
Rank change year-on-year +21 +77 -51
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 4 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.053% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.059% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £139 £206
25th Percentile £513 £186 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £272
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +65.75% -45.70%
75th Percentile £538 £666 £413
90th Percentile - £719 £523
UK median daily rate £570 £650 £485
% change year-on-year -12.31% +34.02% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - - £41.95
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £41.95
% change year-on-year - - -46.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
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 E-Discovery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. 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
West Midlands +20 3 - -
Midlands +19 3 - -
South East +12 1 £525 -22.22%
E-Discovery
UK

E-Discovery
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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Relativity
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (50.00%) Apigee
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Power Apps Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Applications Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Power Apps Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior SQL Server Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) E-Discovery Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Legal Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GxP
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle