E-Discovery Contracts in the UK excluding London

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 426 514
Rank change year-on-year +30 +88 -72
Contract jobs citing E-Discovery 4 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.053% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.059% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - £139 £218
25th Percentile £513 £186 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £298
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +50.88% -40.35%
75th Percentile £538 £666 £375
90th Percentile - £719 £514
UK median daily rate £565 £650 £480
% change year-on-year -13.08% +35.42% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - - £41.95
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £41.95
% change year-on-year - +132.42% -46.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing E-Discovery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for E-Discovery in the UK excluding London

E-Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Midlands +25 3 - -
West Midlands +16 3 - -
South East +8 1 £525 -22.22%
E-Discovery
UK

E-Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Relativity
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (50.00%) Apigee
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Power Apps Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Applications Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Power Apps Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior SQL Server Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) E-Discovery Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Legal Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GxP
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle