Digital Forensics Job Trends in Reading

Digital Forensics (Digital Forensic Science)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.062% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £51,750 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,126 438 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 69.29% 84.56% 80.25%
Number of salaries quoted 835 265 531
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +1.72%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,840 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -18.33% +9.09%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Reading

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Digital Forensics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft