Digital Forensics Jobs with Work from Home Options

Digital Forensics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 582 594 829
Rank change year-on-year +12 +235 -238
Permanent jobs citing Digital Forensics 20 39 72
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.056% 0.10% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.11% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 10 27 27
10th Percentile £57,475 £35,333 £34,500
25th Percentile £62,688 £63,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +47.37% -24.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £76,000 £77,000
UK median annual salary £40,553 £70,000 £51,579
% change year-on-year -42.07% +35.71% -17.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Digital Forensics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Digital Forensics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Digital Forensics trend for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Forensics
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Digital Forensics.

Digital Forensics salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Forensics
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Digital Forensics over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Digital Forensics salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Forensics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) SAS
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) SPSS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Relativity
2 1 (5.00%) Ringtail
2 1 (5.00%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Dropbox
4 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (15.00%) Rubrik
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
1 6 (30.00%) Network Security
2 4 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (15.00%) Internet
3 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (15.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (15.00%) LAN
3 3 (15.00%) SAN
3 3 (15.00%) VoIP
3 3 (15.00%) WAN
3 3 (15.00%) WebEx
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) SSL
4 1 (5.00%) tcpdump
4 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Big Data
1 6 (30.00%) EDRMS
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (45.00%) Legal
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Law
3 6 (30.00%) Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Data Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) E-Discovery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cybercrime
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (15.00%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (5.00%) CSOC
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Information Security
2 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (35.00%) E-Discovery
3 6 (30.00%) Analytics
3 6 (30.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (30.00%) Data Analytics
3 6 (30.00%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
3 6 (30.00%) Fintech
3 6 (30.00%) SDLC
4 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Privacy
6 3 (15.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) Security Management
6 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CREST Certified
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CEH
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) GCIA
4 1 (5.00%) GCIH
4 1 (5.00%) GSEC
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
1 4 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (15.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (20.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Nagios
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
1 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) 3PAR
3 3 (15.00%) Mitel
3 3 (15.00%) ShoreTel
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Darktrace
5 1 (5.00%) Nuix
5 1 (5.00%) Recommind
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) Tripwire