Forensic Analysis Jobs in England

Forensic Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 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 832 856 1139
Rank change year-on-year +24 +283 -249
Permanent jobs citing Forensic Analysis 31 38 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.046% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.049% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 25 31 40
10th Percentile £27,500 £51,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £65,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £77,500 £51,579
Median % change year-on-year -48.39% +50.25% -14.04%
75th Percentile £67,000 £102,500 £95,625
90th Percentile £88,711 £135,693 £100,000
UK median annual salary £34,000 £77,500 £54,056
% change year-on-year -56.13% +43.37% -9.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Forensic Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Forensic Analysis in England

Forensic Analysis
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Forensic Analysis in England

Forensic Analysis
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Forensic Analysis in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Forensic Analysis in England

Forensic Analysis
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Forensic Analysis within the England 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
Midlands -27 13 £30,250 -32.78% 2
London +81 12 £67,000 -13.55% 7
West Midlands +1 12 £30,250 -32.78% 2
North of England +12 4 £41,250 -22.90% 3
North West -22 4 £41,250 -22.90% 3
South West -41 2 £40,482 -65.63% 1
East Midlands -30 1 - -
Forensic Analysis
UK

Forensic Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.45%) Adobe After Effects
1 2 (6.45%) Adobe Premiere
1 2 (6.45%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) IaaS
2 3 (9.68%) PaaS
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
1 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.90%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (12.90%) Network Security
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) HTTP
3 1 (3.23%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Gatling
2 1 (3.23%) JUnit
2 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Police
2 6 (19.35%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Public Speaking
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
4 4 (12.90%) Local Government
5 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Legal
6 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.45%) Law
6 2 (6.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Digital Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Forensic Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat Specialist
3 4 (12.90%) Forensic Investigator
3 4 (12.90%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Incident Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Graduate
5 2 (6.45%) Graduate Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.68%) Driving Licence
4 2 (6.45%) CCTV
4 2 (6.45%) Cybercrime
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Video Editing
5 1 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Digital Forensics
2 16 (51.61%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (38.71%) Incident Response
4 9 (29.03%) Case Management
5 8 (25.81%) Decision-Making
6 7 (22.58%) Data Protection
6 7 (22.58%) Time Management
7 6 (19.35%) SIEM
8 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 5 (16.13%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 5 (16.13%) Security Monitoring
8 5 (16.13%) Security Operations
8 5 (16.13%) Threat Intelligence
9 4 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (12.90%) Anomaly Detection
9 4 (12.90%) Cyber Intelligence
9 4 (12.90%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 4 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (12.90%) Network Packet Analysis
9 4 (12.90%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) Bash
2 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) Go
3 1 (3.23%) Groovy
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Degree
2 7 (22.58%) CISSP
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (16.13%) GIAC
5 4 (12.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (12.90%) CCSP
5 4 (12.90%) CRISC
5 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
6 2 (6.45%) CCIE
6 2 (6.45%) CCNP
6 2 (6.45%) CISM
6 2 (6.45%) OSCP
6 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) CEH
7 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) GCFA
7 1 (3.23%) GCFE
7 1 (3.23%) GCIH
7 1 (3.23%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (45.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 13 (41.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (29.03%) ISO 9001
4 5 (16.13%) NIST
5 2 (6.45%) GDPR
5 2 (6.45%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
6 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) EnCase
2 3 (9.68%) Istio
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) FTK
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Cellebrite
2 2 (6.45%) Adobe
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco
2 2 (6.45%) Nuix
3 1 (3.23%) Carbon Black
3 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.23%) Intel
3 1 (3.23%) Spotify