Digital Forensics Contracts with Work from Home Options

Digital Forensics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Digital Forensics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Forensics over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 452 628
Rank change year-on-year +103 +176 -160
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 3 18 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.070% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.077% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £623 £407
25th Percentile £563 £623 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £594
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +15.79% +1.06%
75th Percentile £588 £763 £700
90th Percentile - £806 -
UK median daily rate £500 £586 £469
% change year-on-year -14.68% +25.01% -18.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £14.46 - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Digital Forensics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Digital Forensics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Digital Forensics trend for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Digital Forensics.

Digital Forensics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Forensic Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Media
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 2 (66.67%) Quality Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) ISO17020