Digital Forensics Jobs in the West Midlands

Digital Forensics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Digital Forensics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Digital Forensics over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 197 256
Rank change year-on-year +12 +59 +26
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 5 61 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.81% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.99% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5 40 7
10th Percentile £46,975 £26,875 £66,000
25th Percentile - £27,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £35,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.39% -50.00% +51.35%
75th Percentile £81,250 - £76,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £45,275 £82,900
England median annual salary £70,500 £43,362 £70,000
% change year-on-year +62.58% -38.05% +23.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,809 6,182 5,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.12% 82.39% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 4,565 3,136
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,313 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,050 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the West Midlands

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Digital Forensics in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Digital Forensics in the West Midlands

Digital Forensics
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Digital Forensics in the West Midlands

Digital Forensics
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Forensics within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
Staffordshire +14 2 £53,688 +53.39% 3
Birmingham +42 1 £77,500 -32.61% 4
Warwickshire -43 1 £45,000 +50.00% 2
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (40.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (20.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) A+ Certification
1 2 (40.00%) APMG
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Scheme
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) GIAC
1 2 (40.00%) ISACA
1 2 (40.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft