Malware Detection/Protection Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Malware Detection/Protection
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £625 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 697 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.15% 85.42% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 365 622
10th Percentile £307 £223 £226
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Malware Detection/Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Detection/Protection in Edinburgh

Malware Detection/Protection
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Malware Detection/Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Malware Detection/Protection

Malware Detection/Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform