Malware Reverse Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Malware Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Malware Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 439 505
Rank change year-on-year +58 +66 -69
Contract jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering 12 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.050% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.056% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £402 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -15.22% +7.48%
75th Percentile £486 £585 £676
90th Percentile £541 £586 £730
UK median daily rate £438 £519 £575
% change year-on-year -15.66% -9.78% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Malware Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Malware Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering
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 Reverse Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Midlands - 12 £438 - 1
West Midlands - 12 £438 - 1
Malware Reverse Engineering
UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
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 (8.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (91.67%) Legal
2 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Analyst
1 11 (91.67%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Incident Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Junior
2 1 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (8.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 12 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 12 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 12 (100.00%) SIEM
1 12 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 11 (91.67%) Computer Forensics
2 11 (91.67%) Purple Team
2 11 (91.67%) Risk Management
2 11 (91.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 11 (91.67%) Threat Analysis
3 6 (50.00%) Line Management
3 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
4 1 (8.33%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) GDPR
1 12 (100.00%) NIST
2 11 (91.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (91.67%) HIPAA
2 11 (91.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk