Malware Analysis Contract Job Trends in Chester

Malware Analysis
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Malware Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Malware Analysis 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.71% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

Malware Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87 62 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 74.36% 88.57% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 23 20
10th Percentile £190 £415 £389
25th Percentile £425 £491 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +46.67%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £585
90th Percentile £739 £671 £664
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £496 £525
% change year-on-year -9.90% -5.50% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 10
10th Percentile £12.70 £16.00 £17.03
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.50 £17.17
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.19 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% +17.68% +8.61%
75th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £79.80 - £40.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.43 £27.39 £22.53
% change year-on-year -18.09% +21.55% +61.04%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Malware Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Malware Analysis job vacancy trend in Chester

Malware Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript