Forensic Accounting Job Trends

Forensic Accounting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Forensic Accounting skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 735 722
Rank change year-on-year +90 -13 +386
Permanent jobs citing Forensic Accounting 8 21 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.031% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.037% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Forensic Accounting 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

Forensic Accounting
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Forensic Accounting relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Forensic Accounting job vacancy trend in the UK

Forensic Accounting
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Forensic Accounting.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Forensic Accounting

Forensic Accounting
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Forensic Accounting within the UK over the 6 months to 19 November 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
England +97 8 £67,500 - 2
London +61 8 £67,500 - 1

Forensic Accounting
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (100.00%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (100.00%) SPSS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Dropbox
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Big Data
1 8 (100.00%) EDRMS
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Legal
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Forensic Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Technology Manager
3 2 (25.00%) E-Discovery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Cybercrime
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 8 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 8 (100.00%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
1 8 (100.00%) Fintech
1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
1 8 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) e-Disclosure
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) EnCase
1 6 (75.00%) FTK
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cellebrite
2 2 (25.00%) Nuix