Forensic Analysis Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Forensic Analysis
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 342 470
Rank change year-on-year +45 +128 +155
Contract jobs citing Forensic Analysis 7 3 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.020% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.022% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £495 - £330
25th Percentile £500 - £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £716 - £415
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.24%
75th Percentile £775 - £521
90th Percentile £805 - £715
UK median daily rate £550 £481 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Forensic Analysis
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Forensic Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Forensic Analysis trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Forensic Analysis
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Forensic Analysis daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Forensic Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Forensic Analysis daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Forensic Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Head of Information
2 2 (28.57%) Head of Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Head of Security
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Threat Modelling
1 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Application Security
4 2 (28.57%) Information Security
4 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CEH
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) ForgeRock
2 2 (28.57%) Tenable