Digital Forensics Job Trends in Wales

Digital Forensics
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Digital Forensics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.10% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,750 - £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 - £29,000
75th Percentile £40,250 - £31,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £59,500 £66,250 £48,750
% change year-on-year -10.19% +35.90% -27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 787 845 888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.47% 68.98% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 580 485 707
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £27,800
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +2.15% -7.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,108 £61,445
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,299 £72,433
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Digital Forensics job vacancy trend in Wales

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Digital Forensics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Digital Forensics

Digital Forensics
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the Wales region over the 6 months to 8 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
South Wales - 1 £38,500 - 5
Digital Forensics
UK

Digital Forensics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware