Digital Forensics Job Trends in Berkshire

Digital Forensics
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.078% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 - -
75th Percentile £45,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £29,550 £70,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -58.09% -11.88% +16.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,834 1,479 2,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.45% 92.21% 85.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 535 1,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -9.09%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Digital Forensics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Digital Forensics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) GCED
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 2 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk