Malware Analysis Contract Job Trends in the South West

Malware Analysis
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Malware Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 118 138
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Malware Analysis 5 1 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.057% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.062% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 20
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £550 £563 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +0.88% -
75th Percentile £675 £588 £580
90th Percentile £765 - £625
England median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +0.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,725 1,606 2,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.15% 90.84% 82.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 979 1,694
10th Percentile £325 £215 £244
25th Percentile £413 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 169 370
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.13 £13.83
25th Percentile £26.19 £18.87 £28.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Malware Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Malware Analysis job vacancy trend in the South West

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Malware Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Malware Analysis

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Analysis in the South West over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Analysis in the South West

Malware Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
Wiltshire - 3 £650 - 3
Gloucestershire -2 1 £500 -13.04%
Somerset - 1 £550 -
Malware Analysis
England

Malware Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SOC Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) CSOC
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) MISP
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) SOAR
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) SIEM
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (20.00%) Data Management
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (20.00%) ITSM
5 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) MCSE
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Clearswift
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Tanium
2 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro
2 1 (20.00%) Tripwire