E-Discovery Jobs

eDiscovery (Electronic Discovery)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for E-Discovery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 831 917 1049
Rank change year-on-year +86 +132 -150
Permanent jobs citing E-Discovery 76 30 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.032% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.033% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 51 13 29
10th Percentile £35,000 - £40,750
25th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% -5.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £84,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £32,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +34.62% -27.78% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

E-Discovery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

E-Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for E-Discovery in the UK

E-Discovery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing E-Discovery.

Salary trend for E-Discovery in the UK

E-Discovery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing E-Discovery over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for E-Discovery in the UK

E-Discovery
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing E-Discovery within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +71 64 £72,500 +31.82% 25
London +148 47 £75,000 +7.14% 18
UK excluding London -23 24 £43,750 +34.62% 6
Work from Home +54 12 £110,000 +37.50% 12
South East 0 7 - -
North of England +25 6 £41,250 +26.92% 4
Scotland - 5 £45,000 -
North West -2 4 £41,250 +26.92% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £30,000 -
Yorkshire +53 2 £38,000 - 2
South West - 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

E-Discovery
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 16 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 15 (19.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (19.74%) SAS
3 3 (3.95%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 15 (19.74%) SPSS
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Relativity
2 2 (2.63%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 1 (1.32%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) Azure
2 30 (39.47%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (30.26%) Microsoft Purview
4 16 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (19.74%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (14.47%) AWS
6 11 (14.47%) Dropbox
7 10 (13.16%) Entra ID
7 10 (13.16%) OneDrive
8 7 (9.21%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
10 5 (6.58%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (6.58%) PowerApps
11 4 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (3.95%) Rubrik
13 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.63%) GCP
13 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
14 1 (1.32%) IaaS
14 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) Firewall
2 6 (7.89%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (3.95%) Internet
3 3 (3.95%) iSCSI
3 3 (3.95%) LAN
3 3 (3.95%) SAN
3 3 (3.95%) VoIP
3 3 (3.95%) WAN
3 3 (3.95%) WebEx
4 1 (1.32%) DHCP
4 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) Big Data
1 15 (19.74%) EDRMS
2 6 (7.89%) Metadata
3 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 7 (9.21%) Cypress.io
2 7 (9.21%) Selenium
2 7 (9.21%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (43.42%) Legal
2 27 (35.53%) Finance
3 26 (34.21%) Law
4 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 14 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (9.21%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.95%) Marketing
8 3 (3.95%) Military
8 3 (3.95%) Police
9 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.32%) Advertising
10 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.32%) German Language
10 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (19.74%) Lead
2 12 (15.79%) Analyst
3 7 (9.21%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 6 (7.89%) Data Custodian
4 6 (7.89%) E-Discovery Specialist
5 5 (6.58%) Cloud Specialist
6 4 (5.26%) Compliance Specialist
6 4 (5.26%) IT Support
6 4 (5.26%) Security Compliance Specialist
6 4 (5.26%) Security Specialist
7 3 (3.95%) Business Manager
7 3 (3.95%) E-Discovery Analyst
7 3 (3.95%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Resilience Manager
7 3 (3.95%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 2 (2.63%) E-Discovery Manager
8 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) Web Services
2 7 (9.21%) Apache Thrift
2 7 (9.21%) JSON
2 7 (9.21%) React
2 7 (9.21%) REST
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.63%) SPFx
4 1 (1.32%) Pyjs
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Cybercrime
2 8 (10.53%) BYOD
3 7 (9.21%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.26%) Taxonomies
5 3 (3.95%) Blog
5 3 (3.95%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) PKI
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.32%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Windows
2 8 (10.53%) Android
3 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) Analytics
2 26 (34.21%) Information Security
3 22 (28.95%) Digital Forensics
4 21 (27.63%) Process Improvement
5 17 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (21.05%) Risk Management
7 15 (19.74%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 15 (19.74%) Data Analytics
7 15 (19.74%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
7 15 (19.74%) Fintech
7 15 (19.74%) Log Analytics
7 15 (19.74%) Mentoring
7 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (19.74%) SDLC
8 14 (18.42%) Agile
9 13 (17.11%) API Integration
9 13 (17.11%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (17.11%) Data Protection
10 12 (15.79%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.21%) Java
2 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.58%) Python
3 5 (6.58%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) CISM
2 6 (7.89%) CISSP
3 3 (3.95%) CRISC
4 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.63%) GIAC
4 2 (2.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (2.63%) ISSMP
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CCNA
5 1 (1.32%) CEH
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) GRC
2 6 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.63%) COBIT
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.63%) GDPR
4 2 (2.63%) IASME
4 2 (2.63%) NIST
4 2 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.26%) vSphere
4 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
3 2 (2.63%) FTK
4 1 (1.32%) EnCase
4 1 (1.32%) Nagios
4 1 (1.32%) SCCM
4 1 (1.32%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.16%) Nuix
3 9 (11.84%) Apple
4 7 (9.21%) VMware
5 5 (6.58%) Sophos
6 4 (5.26%) Intapp
7 3 (3.95%) 3PAR
7 3 (3.95%) Mitel
7 3 (3.95%) ShoreTel
7 3 (3.95%) Spotify
8 2 (2.63%) Alibaba
8 2 (2.63%) Cellebrite
8 2 (2.63%) Citrix
8 2 (2.63%) Google
8 2 (2.63%) Recommind
8 2 (2.63%) Veeam
9 1 (1.32%) Adobe
9 1 (1.32%) SAP
9 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.32%) Splunk