Forensic Analysis Contracts

Forensic Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 568 704
Rank change year-on-year +76 +136 +139
Contract jobs citing Forensic Analysis 28 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.032% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.037% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 13
10th Percentile £436 £461 £356
25th Percentile £496 £467 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -10.20%
75th Percentile £588 £492 £800
90th Percentile £751 £497 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 - £800
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Forensic Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Forensic Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Forensic Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Forensic Analysis over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Forensic Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +71 28 £550 +14.29% 31
London +54 22 £550 +14.29% 17
Work from Home +45 7 £716 - 17
UK excluding London +61 6 £484 - 18
Midlands - 3 £420 - 2
North West - 2 £496 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £410 -
North of England - 2 £496 - 3
South East - 1 £475 - 6
West Midlands - 1 £525 - 2

Forensic Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Akamai
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.14%) Cloudflare
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) Network Security
2 7 (25.00%) Firewall
3 5 (17.86%) HTTP
4 2 (7.14%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
General
1 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Law
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Head of Information
5 2 (7.14%) Head of Information Security
5 2 (7.14%) Head of Security
6 1 (3.57%) Information Security Advisor
6 1 (3.57%) Security Advisor
6 1 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 4 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 11 (39.29%) QMS
2 11 (39.29%) Quality Management
2 11 (39.29%) Validation
3 8 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (28.57%) SIEM
4 7 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
4 7 (25.00%) E-Discovery
4 7 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
6 5 (17.86%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Application Security
7 4 (14.29%) Computer Forensics
7 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (10.71%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) CISSP
2 7 (25.00%) CEH
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) CISM
3 5 (17.86%) Degree
3 5 (17.86%) EnCE
4 4 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.57%) CFCE
6 1 (3.57%) CISA
6 1 (3.57%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) GDPR
1 9 (32.14%) NIST
2 7 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 6 (21.43%) QA
4 5 (17.86%) HIPAA
4 5 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (17.86%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) EnCase
1 5 (17.86%) FTK
2 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Cellebrite
1 5 (17.86%) Nuix
2 3 (10.71%) ForgeRock
3 2 (7.14%) Imperva
3 2 (7.14%) Tenable
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk