Malware Detection/Protection Contracts in London

Malware Detection/Protection
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Malware Detection/Protection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 390 491
Rank change year-on-year +39 +101 +98
Contract jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.006% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.006% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +6.56%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Malware Detection/Protection in London

Malware Detection/Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection in London.

Daily rate trend for Malware Detection/Protection in London

Malware Detection/Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Facebook
1 1 (50.00%) Instagram
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk