Malware Detection/Protection Contract Job Trends in Chester

Malware Detection/Protection
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.99% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

Malware Detection/Protection 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 80 61 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 79.21% 84.72% 77.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 20 25
10th Percentile £191 £463 £375
25th Percentile £444 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +4.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £662 £700 £580
90th Percentile £753 £739 £608
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.78% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 15
10th Percentile £12.61 £15.53 £17.14
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.75 £17.38
Median hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £34.00
90th Percentile £61.66 £47.50 £38.01
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.31 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -47.69% +27.27% +52.48%

Malware Detection/Protection
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Fiddler
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) VMware