Forensic Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Forensic Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Forensic Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forensic Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 383 443
Rank change year-on-year +49 +60 +59
Contract jobs citing Forensic Analysis 6 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.039% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.047% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £426 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.45%
75th Percentile £498 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Forensic Analysis 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 11,721 17,088 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.59% 84.28% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,221 14,248
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,065 1,263
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.69
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Forensic Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK excluding London

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK excluding London

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK excluding London

Forensic Analysis
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 Forensic Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Midlands - 3 £420 - 1
North West - 2 £496 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £410 -
North of England - 2 £496 - 4
South East - 1 £475 - 8
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 1
Forensic Analysis
UK

Forensic Analysis
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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (16.67%) Security Advisor
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CEH
2 1 (16.67%) CFCE
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ForgeRock
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk