Malware Analysis Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Malware Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Malware Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 324 377
Rank change year-on-year -63 +53 +103
Contract jobs citing Malware Analysis 7 15 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 20
10th Percentile £355 £525 -
25th Percentile £385 £538 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +5.26% +4.59%
75th Percentile £475 £756 £625
90th Percentile £520 £790 -
UK median daily rate £440 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -26.67% +5.26% +3.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 12,154 16,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.23% 88.03% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,576 7,108 10,751
10th Percentile £223 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,689 687 1,278
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.00 £16.94
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.02 £73.85 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Malware Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Malware Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Malware Analysis

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Analysis in the UK excluding London

Malware Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
South East -17 5 £390 -41.13% 2
North of England - 2 £475 - 2
North West - 2 £475 - 2
Malware Analysis
UK

Malware Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Fiddler
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Malware Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Forensic Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Behavioural Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) Digital Forensics
3 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 4 (57.14%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Event Correlation
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
1 5 (71.43%) GCFA
1 5 (71.43%) GCIA
1 5 (71.43%) GCIH
2 4 (57.14%) CFCE
3 3 (42.86%) GIAC
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 4 (57.14%) GDPR
3 3 (42.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 4 (57.14%) ArcSight
3 3 (42.86%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (42.86%) LogRhythm
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Carbon Black