Digital Forensics Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Digital Forensics
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.060% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £575 £294 £550
% change year-on-year +95.33% -46.48% +57.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - +18.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Digital Forensics 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 in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,499 1,217 1,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.98% 84.51% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 702 1,168
10th Percentile £262 £288 £300
25th Percentile £380 £404 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £620
90th Percentile £650 £655 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 39 30
10th Percentile £17.36 - £15.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £75.50 £50.25 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Forensics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Digital Forensics
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Digital Forensics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (100.00%) ISO17020
1 1 (100.00%) QA