Digital Forensics Job Trends in Staffordshire

Digital Forensics
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 64 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 -20 -
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 1 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.10% 0.19% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.21% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £53,688 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - +78.96% -
75th Percentile - - £35,000
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £42,750 £65,594 £29,000
% change year-on-year -34.83% +126.19% -60.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 820 480 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.62% 90.06% 85.78%
Number of salaries quoted 340 303 335
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,822 £24,700
25th Percentile £30,580 £32,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Digital Forensics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft