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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 280 263
Rank change year-on-year +43 -17 +154
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 16 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.010% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.012% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +50.00% -25.93%

All Process and 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 8,847 8,581 6,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.35% 89.60% 91.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,690 3,909 5,253
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,100 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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
North West - 15 £57,500 - 16
Yorkshire - 1 £30,000 - 14
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%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DMZ
1 3 (18.75%) Modbus
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Forensic Investigator
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Responder
3 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Forensic Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Driving Licence
1 3 (18.75%) Operational Technology
1 3 (18.75%) SCADA
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Incident Response
2 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Purple Team
3 3 (18.75%) Red Team
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Register
3 3 (18.75%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Compliance Management
5 1 (6.25%) Forensic Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) HND
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
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