Digital Forensics Jobs in the Midlands

Digital Forensics
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 294 360
Rank change year-on-year +26 +66 -63
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 75 12 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.53% 0.14% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.15% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 50 7 8
10th Percentile £27,500 £52,750 £37,675
25th Percentile £27,813 £65,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +47.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £48,757 £73,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £64,148 £76,000 -
England median annual salary £48,750 £70,000 £51,579
% change year-on-year -30.36% +35.71% -17.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,125 8,190 10,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.22% 96.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,655 4,352 6,986
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,656 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,001
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Digital Forensics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Forensics in the Midlands

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Digital Forensics in the Midlands

Digital Forensics
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Forensics in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Digital Forensics in the Midlands

Digital Forensics
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
West Midlands +49 67 £35,000 -50.00% 2
East Midlands -25 8 £61,439 +63.84%
Digital Forensics
England

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DHCP
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
1 2 (2.67%) NX-OS
1 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) GitLab
1 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 20 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.33%) Police
4 6 (8.00%) Public Speaking
5 5 (6.67%) Legal
6 3 (4.00%) Law
7 2 (2.67%) Local Government
8 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (45.33%) Analyst
1 34 (45.33%) Digital Analyst
1 34 (45.33%) Forensic Analyst
2 20 (26.67%) Data Scientist
3 7 (9.33%) Technical Trainer
3 7 (9.33%) Trainer
4 6 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (2.67%) Computer Scientist
5 2 (2.67%) Graduate
5 2 (2.67%) Graduate Analyst
5 2 (2.67%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (2.67%) Research Scientist
5 2 (2.67%) Security Engineer
5 2 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (2.67%) Senior Digital Analyst
5 2 (2.67%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) Forensic Investigator
6 1 (1.33%) Forensic Manager
6 1 (1.33%) Team Leader
6 1 (1.33%) Training Manager
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.67%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.67%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (6.67%) SCADA
2 5 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.67%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.67%) Cybercrime
4 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.67%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.67%) PKI
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Mentoring
2 32 (42.67%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (36.00%) Computer Science
4 21 (28.00%) Data Analysis
4 21 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (28.00%) Red Team
5 20 (26.67%) Coaching
5 20 (26.67%) Data Science
5 20 (26.67%) Decision-Making
5 20 (26.67%) Mathematics
5 20 (26.67%) Statistical Modelling
6 16 (21.33%) Case Management
7 12 (16.00%) Forensic Analysis
8 9 (12.00%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.00%) Time Management
10 5 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (6.67%) Cryptography
10 5 (6.67%) Informatics
10 5 (6.67%) Information Security
10 5 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.67%) Python
2 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (65.33%) Degree
2 13 (17.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.67%) OSCP
4 4 (5.33%) SANS
5 3 (4.00%) CISSP
5 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.67%) CCNA
6 2 (2.67%) CEH
6 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.67%) GCFA
6 2 (2.67%) GCFE
6 2 (2.67%) GCIH
6 2 (2.67%) GREM
6 2 (2.67%) MCSE
6 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.33%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 16 (21.33%) ISO 9001
3 10 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.67%) NCSC
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) EnCase
2 2 (2.67%) CSIRT
2 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) FTK
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Cellebrite
2 5 (6.67%) BT
3 2 (2.67%) Cisco
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) VMware
4 1 (1.33%) Nuix