Forensic Analysis Jobs

Forensic Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Forensic Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Forensic Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 883 909
Rank change year-on-year +199 +26 +272
Permanent jobs citing Forensic Analysis 24 31 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.030% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.036% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 21 27 30
10th Percentile £48,165 £27,500 £51,075
25th Percentile £49,000 £29,500 £61,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £35,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -54.84% +50.25%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,474 £135,693
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,029 £32,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +78.55% -43.48% +25.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Forensic Analysis 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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Forensic Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Forensic Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Forensic Analysis.

Salary trend for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Forensic Analysis over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Forensic Analysis in the UK

Forensic Analysis
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Forensic Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +171 23 £70,000 +73.95% 248
UK excluding London +189 14 £58,029 +78.55% 240
London +99 10 £80,000 +19.40% 33
South East +105 7 £67,500 +35.00% 63
Work from Home +118 6 £51,058 -23.79% 168
South West +117 2 £51,058 +26.13% 30
Midlands +50 2 £56,250 +85.95% 47
West Midlands +46 2 £56,250 +85.95% 25
North of England +43 1 £70,000 +43.59% 53
North West +6 1 £70,000 +43.59% 25
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 38
Scotland - 1 £48,507 - 9

Forensic Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) Rubrik
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) Firewall
2 9 (37.50%) VPN
3 7 (29.17%) Network Security
4 4 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (16.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) tcpdump
5 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Law
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Analyst
1 8 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Security Specialist
4 3 (12.50%) Network Security Specialist
4 3 (12.50%) Network Specialist
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Security Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Security Posture
2 8 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (4.17%) Digital Media
6 1 (4.17%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Incident Response
2 18 (75.00%) SIEM
3 15 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 9 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (37.50%) Security Operations
4 9 (37.50%) Threat Intelligence
5 8 (33.33%) Threat Detection
6 7 (29.17%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
7 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
8 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (16.67%) Presales
8 4 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) PowerShell
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 9 (37.50%) Bash
4 5 (20.83%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (4.17%) Perl
5 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) CISSP
1 12 (50.00%) Degree
2 10 (41.67%) CEH
3 9 (37.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 8 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (33.33%) CISM
5 6 (25.00%) OSCP
6 5 (20.83%) GCIH
7 4 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (16.67%) CCNA
7 4 (16.67%) CCNP
8 3 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
9 2 (8.33%) CCSP
9 2 (8.33%) GCFA
9 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (8.33%) SANS
9 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
10 1 (4.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) NIST
2 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (25.00%) GDPR
4 4 (16.67%) HIPAA
4 4 (16.67%) SLA
5 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) Docker
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) QRadar
1 4 (16.67%) VxRail
2 2 (8.33%) CASB
2 2 (8.33%) Istio
2 2 (8.33%) linkerd
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) Splunk
3 8 (33.33%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 4 (16.67%) Sophos
4 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 4 (16.67%) Zscaler
5 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 2 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (8.33%) Google