Antivirus Management Contract Job Trends in England

Antivirus Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Antivirus Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 515 579
Rank change year-on-year +18 +64 +165
Contract jobs citing Antivirus Management 20 21 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.072% 0.064% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.074% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 22
10th Percentile £212 £175 £150
25th Percentile £213 £183 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £325 £263
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +23.81% -30.00%
75th Percentile £238 £488 £381
90th Percentile £251 £619 £750
UK median daily rate £220 £325 £298
% change year-on-year -32.31% +9.24% -25.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.38 - -
Median hourly rate £17.75 - -
75th Percentile £18.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Antivirus Management 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,213 28,323 38,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.00% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,018 17,781 26,629
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £404 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,491 1,342 1,424
10th Percentile £14.30 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.65 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +47.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.55% +46.42%

Antivirus Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Antivirus Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Antivirus Management in England

Antivirus Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Antivirus Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Antivirus Management

Antivirus Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Antivirus Management in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Antivirus Management in England

Antivirus Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Antivirus Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Antivirus Management

Antivirus Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Antivirus Management within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 2025. 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
South West +23 7 £220 +25.71% 3
East of England +10 7 £220 +10.00% 1
London +33 6 £220 -53.68% 2
South East +17 1 £220 -53.68% 1
North of England - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £220 - 2
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £220 - 2
Antivirus Management
UK

Antivirus Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (45.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (10.00%) Mimecast
4 2 (10.00%) Tessian
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) DMARC
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (10.00%) Modbus
2 2 (10.00%) SMTP
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Law
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Electronics
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 12 (60.00%) Desktop Support
1 12 (60.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 12 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) iPad
1 6 (30.00%) iPhone
1 6 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (20.00%) CMDB
3 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Insider Threat
4 2 (10.00%) Life Science
4 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (10.00%) SCADA
4 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.00%) Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (55.00%) ITIL
3 10 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 7 (35.00%) Inventory Management
5 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (30.00%) Time Management
6 4 (20.00%) Information Security
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) Patch Management
7 3 (15.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Security Management
8 2 (10.00%) Data Flow Diagram
8 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
8 2 (10.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.00%) CCNA
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) McAfee
2 6 (30.00%) Starlink
3 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.00%) Rockwell
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Veeam
4 1 (5.00%) Apple
4 1 (5.00%) Kaspersky
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Sophos