Digital Forensics Job Trends in Manchester

Digital Forensics
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 140
Rank change year-on-year - - +106
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 10 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.38% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile - - £70,500
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 - -
90th Percentile - - £78,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,219 2,622 2,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 83.23% 92.75% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 1,234 1,611
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,150 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.62% +0.28%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,988 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +0.42%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Manchester

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Forensics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Forensic Investigator
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Responder
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (10.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Purple Team
2 1 (10.00%) Red Team
2 1 (10.00%) Validation
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Spotify
1 1 (10.00%) Veeam
1 1 (10.00%) VMware