Malware Analyst Contract Job Trends in the North West

Malware Analyst
England > North West

The median Malware Analyst daily rate in the North West is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Malware Analyst 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.083% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £543 - -
England median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,194 2,200 2,576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 93.38% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 1,168 1,796
10th Percentile £215 £268 £274
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £656 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 154 177
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.53 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £31.25 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% -5.30% +50.00%
75th Percentile £47.12 £50.44 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.93 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

Malware Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Malware Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Malware Analyst job vacancy trend in the North West

Malware Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Malware Analyst job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Malware Analyst job vacancies in the North West

Malware Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Analyst within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
Cheshire - 2 £475 -
Malware Analyst
England

Malware Analyst Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 10 November 2025, Malware Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Malware Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark

Malware Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript