Malware Detection/Protection Contracts in the UK excluding London

Malware Detection/Protection
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Malware Detection/Protection over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 398 459
Rank change year-on-year +65 +61 +50
Contract jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.005% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.006% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £375 - £186
25th Percentile £413 - £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £315
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £404
90th Percentile £575 - £454
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £15.65 £20.93
Median % change year-on-year +161.98% -25.23% -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £15.65 £20.93
% change year-on-year +161.98% -25.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Malware Detection/Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Detection/Protection in the UK excluding London

Malware Detection/Protection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Malware Detection/Protection in the UK excluding London

Malware Detection/Protection
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Detection/Protection in the UK excluding London

Malware Detection/Protection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Malware Detection/Protection in the UK excluding London

Malware Detection/Protection
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 Detection/Protection within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 7
North of England - 2 £350 - 16
South East - 1 £600 - 19
Malware Detection/Protection
UK

Malware Detection/Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DKIM
1 2 (66.67%) DMARC
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Bid Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Email Filtering
1 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Proofpoint
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Tenable