Digital Forensics Jobs in the North West

Digital Forensics
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Digital Forensics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Forensics over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 293 323
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 -78
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 6 8 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.062% 0.10% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.11% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,775 -
25th Percentile £38,125 £46,813 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +34.44% +28.57%
75th Percentile £54,375 £72,188 £53,438
90th Percentile £60,000 £79,800 £55,125
England median annual salary £42,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -39.29% +16.67% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Digital Forensics 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 advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,077 7,562 8,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.16% 95.75% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,149 3,918 5,375
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,200 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the North West

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the North West.

Salary trend for Digital Forensics in the North West

Digital Forensics
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in the North West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Digital Forensics in the North West

Digital Forensics
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Manchester +27 5 £41,250 -38.89% 18
Lancashire - 1 £62,500 - 1
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) tcpdump
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Forensic Investigator
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Responder
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) CSOC
2 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) E-Discovery
3 3 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (16.67%) Forensic Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) CREST Certified
4 1 (16.67%) CEH
4 1 (16.67%) GCIA
4 1 (16.67%) GCIH
4 1 (16.67%) GSEC
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) EnCase
1 1 (16.67%) FTK
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Spotify
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cellebrite
3 1 (16.67%) Nuix