AccessData Forensic Toolkit (FTK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FTK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FTK over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 883 -
Rank change year-on-year +202 - -
Permanent jobs citing FTK 3 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.002% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.060% 0.020% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £38,250 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £43,750 £65,625 -
90th Percentile - £69,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

FTK falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,972 9,994 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 10.16% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,338 7,234 9,375
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,842 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,212 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,525 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

FTK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FTK in the UK

FTK
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FTK.

Salary trend for FTK in the UK

FTK
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FTK within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +190 3 £42,500 -22.73% 2
UK excluding London +208 2 - -
South East - 2 - -
London - 1 £42,500 - 2

FTK
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Information Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Forensic Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Advanced Persistent Threat
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Case Management
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Forensics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Security Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) EnCE
2 2 (66.67%) CCFP
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) GCFA
2 2 (66.67%) GCFE
2 2 (66.67%) GREM
3 1 (33.33%) CFCE
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) EnCase
2 2 (66.67%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) FireEye
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) NetWitness
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk