Digital Forensics Contracts

Digital Forensics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Digital Forensics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Forensics over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 610 835
Rank change year-on-year +39 +225 -126
Contract jobs citing Digital Forensics 13 87 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.16% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.17% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 43 8
10th Percentile - £380 £358
25th Percentile £225 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £586 £469
Median % change year-on-year -44.54% +25.01% -18.48%
75th Percentile £463 £738 £588
90th Percentile £575 £835 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £375
% change year-on-year - +46.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile - - £23.75
25th Percentile £13.69 £26.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £14.46 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.42% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £15.23 £29.38 £42.50
90th Percentile - £30.00 £46.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.46 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.42% +22.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Forensics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the UK

Digital Forensics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics.

Daily rate trend for Digital Forensics in the UK

Digital Forensics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Forensics in the UK

Digital Forensics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Forensics in the UK

Digital Forensics
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +15 13 £325 -44.54% 15
UK excluding London -28 7 - - 7
South West - 7 - - 2
London +64 6 £325 -50.94% 7

Digital Forensics
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DHCP
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) FTP
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) tcpdump
2 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
General
1 7 (53.85%) Police
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Technician
1 7 (53.85%) Forensic Technician
2 4 (30.77%) Incident Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Handler
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Responder
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Driving Licence
2 3 (23.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 4 (30.77%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 1 (7.69%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 1 (7.69%) Application Security
5 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.69%) Malware Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Purple Team
5 1 (7.69%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Perl
1 5 (38.46%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) CITP
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) GCIA
2 3 (23.08%) GCIH
2 3 (23.08%) GIAC
2 3 (23.08%) SANS
3 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) EC-Council LPT
4 1 (7.69%) ECSA
4 1 (7.69%) EnCE
4 1 (7.69%) GAWN
4 1 (7.69%) GCED
4 1 (7.69%) GCFE
4 1 (7.69%) GPEN
4 1 (7.69%) GPPA
4 1 (7.69%) GWAPT
4 1 (7.69%) GXPN
4 1 (7.69%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) CSIRT
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco