E-Discovery Contracts in England

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 585 748
Rank change year-on-year +68 +163 -114
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 26 53 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.071% 0.11% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.12% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 27
10th Percentile £428 £177 £313
25th Percentile £526 £449 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £600
90th Percentile £783 £767 -
UK median daily rate £565 £650 £480
% change year-on-year -13.08% +35.42% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year - +132.42% -46.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in England.

Daily rate trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-Discovery in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in England.

Hourly rate trend for E-Discovery in England

E-Discovery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Discovery within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
London +67 20 £565 -13.08% 18
Midlands +24 3 - -
West Midlands +18 3 - -
South East +8 1 £525 -22.22%
E-Discovery
UK

E-Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Relativity
2 2 (7.69%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (42.31%) Microsoft Purview
4 7 (26.92%) OneDrive
5 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
6 4 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 4 (15.38%) PowerApps
7 2 (7.69%) Apigee
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) IaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) WebEx
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.85%) LAN
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) EDRMS
1 5 (19.23%) Metadata
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 8 (30.77%) Legal
4 6 (23.08%) Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Electronics
5 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
5 3 (11.54%) Marketing
5 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) German Language
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Consultant
2 8 (30.77%) E-Discovery Consultant
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) E-Discovery Manager
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Power Apps Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Developer
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
2 1 (3.85%) XML
2 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Data Loss Prevention
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (26.92%) Project Management
4 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
5 6 (23.08%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Records Management
6 5 (19.23%) Change Management
6 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
6 5 (19.23%) e-Disclosure
6 5 (19.23%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
6 5 (19.23%) Information Governance
6 5 (19.23%) ITIL
6 5 (19.23%) Migration
6 5 (19.23%) PRINCE2
7 4 (15.38%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 4 (15.38%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.54%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.85%) GxP
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (19.23%) EnCase
2 5 (19.23%) PingFederate
3 1 (3.85%) CASB
3 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Nuix
3 3 (11.54%) SAP
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto