Hybrid/Remote E-Discovery Job Trends

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring E-Discovery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 435 482
Rank change year-on-year +63 +47 +225
Permanent jobs citing E-Discovery 2 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.013% 0.037% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.039% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £59,350 £36,500 -
25th Percentile £59,875 £36,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £40,000 £38,325
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% +4.37% -26.12%
75th Percentile £65,375 £42,500 -
90th Percentile £66,650 - £47,130
UK median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -23.08% +13.04%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,245 15,409 20,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.79% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,423 9,065 16,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,781 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing E-Discovery and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

E-Discovery job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

E-Discovery
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing E-Discovery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing E-Discovery

E-Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Licensing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft