Malware Detection/Protection Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Malware Detection/Protection
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.54% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 162 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 85.48% 69.83% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 72 122
10th Percentile £129 £155 £225
25th Percentile £185 £211 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -11.58% +2.15%
75th Percentile £525 £518 £559
90th Percentile £682 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £452 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.38% -2.50% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 12
10th Percentile - £16.24 £15.35
25th Percentile - £20.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 £22.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.62% +14.38% +14.09%
75th Percentile £17.30 £40.00 £34.25
90th Percentile £17.44 £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Malware Detection/Protection in Merseyside

Malware Detection/Protection
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Liverpool - 1 - -
Malware Detection/Protection
North West

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
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%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware