Malware Reverse Engineering Contracts

Malware Reverse Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Malware Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Malware Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 672 844
Rank change year-on-year +111 +172 -144
Contract jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering 15 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.028% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.032% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £395 - £450
25th Percentile £406 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% -9.78% +3.60%
75th Percentile £515 £585 £783
90th Percentile £539 £586 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £488 £760
% change year-on-year -10.26% -35.86% +42.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Malware Reverse Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Malware Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Malware Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering.

Daily rate trend for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 25 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +90 12 £438 -15.66% 2
UK excluding London +57 12 £438 -10.26% 1
Midlands - 12 £438 -
West Midlands - 12 £438 -
Work from Home +116 4 £510 +13.33% 1

Malware Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) tcpdump
2 4 (26.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Hive
1 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
1 4 (26.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Legal
2 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Analyst
1 11 (73.33%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Incident Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Junior
2 1 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (6.67%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (26.67%) YARA
2 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (73.33%) Mac OS X
3 5 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 15 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 15 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 15 (100.00%) SIEM
1 15 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 14 (93.33%) Incident Management
3 11 (73.33%) Computer Forensics
3 11 (73.33%) Purple Team
3 11 (73.33%) Risk Management
3 11 (73.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (73.33%) Threat Analysis
4 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (33.33%) Line Management
6 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (26.67%) Inversion of Control
6 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
6 4 (26.67%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) GDPR
1 15 (100.00%) NIST
2 11 (73.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (73.33%) HIPAA
2 11 (73.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk