Digital Forensics Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 516 424
Rank change year-on-year +40 -92 +304
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 49 47 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.13% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.15% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 44 5 52
10th Percentile £40,825 £49,814 £24,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,688 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,888 £67,500 £40,517
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +66.60% -35.17%
75th Percentile £60,000 £81,250 £58,438
90th Percentile - - £72,500
UK median annual salary £59,500 £75,000 £40,553
% change year-on-year -20.67% +84.95% -39.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,256 32,348 28,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.02% 88.54% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,033 14,675 21,473
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Forensics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Forensics in the UK excluding London

Digital Forensics
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Midlands +31 22 £56,888 -26.60% 2
East Midlands - 19 £56,888 - 1
North of England +37 18 £52,500 - 4
North West - 15 £57,500 -
East of England +24 6 £60,000 -
West Midlands +18 3 £42,750 -44.84% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £30,000 - 4
South West +8 2 £45,000 -33.33%
Wales - 1 £38,500 -
Digital Forensics
UK

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.04%) Confluence
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.08%) Azure
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.04%) AWS
2 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Modbus
2 3 (6.12%) DMZ
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
2 3 (6.12%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Police
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Legal
4 1 (2.04%) Local Government
4 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Senior
2 14 (28.57%) Forensic Investigator
3 7 (14.29%) Incident Responder
4 6 (12.24%) Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Digital Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) Forensic Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Data Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Forensic Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Graduate
7 1 (2.04%) Graduate Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Operations Support Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Security Support Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Trainer
7 1 (2.04%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Driving Licence
1 4 (8.16%) Operational Technology
1 4 (8.16%) SCADA
2 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
1 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 8 (16.33%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (16.33%) Red Team
3 7 (14.29%) Purple Team
3 7 (14.29%) Validation
4 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.12%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.12%) Risk Register
7 2 (4.08%) Compliance Management
7 2 (4.08%) Forensic Analysis
7 2 (4.08%) SIEM
8 1 (2.04%) Analytics
8 1 (2.04%) E-Discovery
8 1 (2.04%) Patch Management
8 1 (2.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (2.04%) Security Operations
8 1 (2.04%) Threat Modelling
8 1 (2.04%) Visualisation
8 1 (2.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
1 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) HND
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) NIST
2 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (2.04%) EnCase
Vendors
1 2 (4.08%) VMware
2 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) Spotify
2 1 (2.04%) Veeam