Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CHFI qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 893 976 1192
Rank change year-on-year +83 +216 -304
Permanent jobs citing CHFI 1 13 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.001% 0.012% 0.003%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.004% 0.038% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £60,750
25th Percentile - £73,750 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +46.67%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CHFI is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,325 34,428 41,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.74% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,299 15,366 18,926
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

CHFI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CHFI in the UK

CHFI
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CHFI.

Salary trend for CHFI in the UK

CHFI
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CHFI within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
London +125 1 £85,000 +9.68%
England +105 1 £85,000 +9.68%

CHFI
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) DRM
1 1 (100.00%) IT4IT
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CASB