Forensic Analysis Contracts

Forensic Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Forensic Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Forensic Analysis over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 688 837
Rank change year-on-year +120 +149 -169
Contract jobs citing Forensic Analysis 11 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.023% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.025% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 6
10th Percentile - £357 £463
25th Percentile - £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £813 £569
90th Percentile - £850 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate - £800 £550
% change year-on-year - +45.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Forensic Analysis 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

Forensic Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Forensic Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Forensic Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Forensic Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Forensic Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
England +109 11 £500 -9.09% 9
UK excluding London +67 8 - - 4
South West - 8 - -
London +79 3 £500 +20.34% 4
Work from Home +118 2 - - 5

Forensic Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) IBM Notes
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Legal
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Aviation
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Compliance Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Data Analyst
2 8 (72.73%) Data Compliance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Incident Response
2 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
2 8 (72.73%) Incident Management
2 8 (72.73%) SIEM
2 8 (72.73%) SOAR
3 7 (63.64%) Data Security
3 7 (63.64%) Use Case
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (54.55%) Workflow
5 5 (45.45%) Issue Tracking
5 5 (45.45%) Workflow Management
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) Information Security
7 1 (9.09%) Digital Forensics
7 1 (9.09%) Internal Audit
7 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Project Management
7 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (9.09%) Security Auditing
7 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) GLBA
2 1 (9.09%) ISAE 3402
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
1 1 (9.09%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Axway
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Lotus
2 1 (9.09%) McAfee
2 1 (9.09%) Netskope
2 1 (9.09%) Rapid7
2 1 (9.09%) Trend Micro