Digital Forensics Jobs in the South East

Digital Forensics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Digital Forensics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Digital Forensics over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 292 387
Rank change year-on-year -15 +95 +89
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 5 104 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.052% 0.62% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.73% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - £77,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £69,250 £78,125 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £80,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +16.36% -1.79%
75th Percentile £71,750 £81,875 £72,500
90th Percentile - £82,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,500 £42,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +65.88% -39.29% +32.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,818 14,215 13,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.35% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,870 7,861
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the South East

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the South East.

Salary trend for Digital Forensics in the South East

Digital Forensics
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Hampshire +71 2 £70,500 -11.88% 2
Middlesex - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 - -
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Military
2 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Information Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Business Development
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Forensics
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Information Management
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) APMP
2 2 (40.00%) CCFP
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) EnCE
2 2 (40.00%) GCFA
2 2 (40.00%) GCFE
2 2 (40.00%) GREM
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CASP
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) EnCase
1 2 (40.00%) FTK
1 2 (40.00%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) FireEye
2 2 (40.00%) NetWitness
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee