E-Discovery Contracts with Work from Home Options

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
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 E-Discovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-Discovery over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 448 595
Rank change year-on-year +108 +147 -116
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 7 20 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.047% 0.081% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.090% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 22
10th Percentile £420 £500 £275
25th Percentile £450 £513 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +25.00% -9.86%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £526
90th Percentile £683 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £565 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -13.08% +44.44% -12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

E-Discovery 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 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

E-Discovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

E-Discovery trend for jobs with a WFH option

E-Discovery
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 E-Discovery.

E-Discovery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing E-Discovery over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

E-Discovery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

E-Discovery
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Relativity
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) German Language
1 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
1 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) E-Discovery Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Forensic Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto