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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 374 407
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +96
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 6 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.011% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.013% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £350 - £133
25th Percentile £383 £513 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +23.53% +63.46%
75th Percentile £725 £538 £575
90th Percentile £788 - £710
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +21.05%

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 13,799 15,124 19,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.31% 83.07% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 9,091 12,946
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £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 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,370 1,541 1,187
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.65 £17.36
Median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.95 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.04
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Discovery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland - 2 £775 - 1
North of England - 2 £415 - 6
West Midlands -2 1 £350 - 3
Midlands -7 1 £350 - 6
North West - 1 £350 - 5
South West - 1 £550 -
Wales - 1 £800 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £480 -
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) E-Discovery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Compliance Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Compliance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Case Management
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) VMware