E-Discovery Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 331 417
Rank change year-on-year +33 +86 +182
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 7 3 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.023% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.026% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £560 £501
25th Percentile - £575 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £669 £691
90th Percentile - £710 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +35.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.75 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,293 11,483 20,074
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.84% 87.30% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,244 7,692 14,136
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -2.33% -1.83%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 402 474
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.52 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £30.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.02 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +61.02%

E-Discovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

E-Discovery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing E-Discovery.

E-Discovery daily rate 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Google Docs
2 1 (14.29%) Google Drive
2 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) PSTN
1 4 (57.14%) VoIP
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Electronics
2 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 4 (57.14%) Marketing
2 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Exchange Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) Voice Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) VoIP Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) CIO
3 1 (14.29%) Information Management Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Management Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Management Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (57.14%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Programme Management
2 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Information Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Document Management
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Records Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Google