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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 389 441
Rank change year-on-year +38 +52 +72
Contract jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.028% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.034% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £569 -
25th Percentile - £638 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £668 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +40.63% +17.28%
75th Percentile - £672 £488
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £668 £525
% change year-on-year -23.28% +27.24% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £32.77 £15.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +109.39% - -
UK median hourly rate £32.77 £15.65 -
% change year-on-year +109.39% - -

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 12,936 17,476 20,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.83% 82.94% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,885 10,313 14,047
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 2,138 1,293
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%
75th Percentile £52.13 £62.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

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
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 5 July 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
South East +35 2 £600 -10.71% 18
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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Bid Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Officer
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Support
1 1 (50.00%) ICT Support Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware