Malware Analysis Contracts in the North of England

Malware Analysis
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Malware Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Malware Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - +67
Contract jobs citing Malware Analysis 1 0 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.028% - 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% - 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile £673 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.38%
75th Percentile £678 - £586
90th Percentile - - £628
England median daily rate £575 £570 £570
% change year-on-year +0.88% - +1.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Malware Analysis 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,158 4,069 4,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.00% 83.69% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,047 2,422 3,347
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £649 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 387 209
10th Percentile £12.80 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -6.79% +18.02%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.88 £63.75 £55.88
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Malware Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Analysis in the North of England

Malware Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Malware Analysis in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Malware Analysis in the North of England

Malware Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Analysis within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
North West - 1 £675 - 7
Malware Analysis
England

Malware Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft