Digital Forensics Job Trends in the North of England

Digital Forensics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 - 383
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 16 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.080% - 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile - - £31,500
25th Percentile £30,000 - £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £41,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.89%
75th Percentile £59,375 - £49,688
90th Percentile £60,000 - £58,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,500 £45,862
% change year-on-year -14.89% +53.72% -36.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,147 7,479 14,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.70% 94.50% 81.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9,589 3,546 11,398
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,461 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -12.00%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in the North of England

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Digital Forensics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Forensics in the North of England

Digital Forensics
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 10 £30,000 -
North West - 6 £60,000 - 1
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.25%) Figma
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DMZ
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Modbus
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
General
1 1 (6.25%) Law
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
1 10 (62.50%) Digital Analyst
1 10 (62.50%) Forensic Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Incident Responder
3 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Graduate
3 1 (6.25%) Graduate Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior UX Designer
3 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
1 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
2 3 (18.75%) Purple Team
2 3 (18.75%) Red Team
2 3 (18.75%) Validation
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.25%) Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Compliance Management
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Forensic Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Interaction Design
4 1 (6.25%) Kaizen
4 1 (6.25%) Prototyping
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.25%) User Experience
4 1 (6.25%) User Stories
4 1 (6.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (6.25%) Wireframes
4 1 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CREST Certified
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Spotify
1 1 (6.25%) Veeam
1 1 (6.25%) VMware