Malware Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Malware Reverse Engineering 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 439 - 390
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering 1 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £348
25th Percentile £775 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.26%
75th Percentile £825 - £520
90th Percentile - - £544
UK median daily rate £800 - £510
% change year-on-year - - -1.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering 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 20,597 11,981 17,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.61% 90.57% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,266 7,418 10,359
10th Percentile £302 £235 £250
25th Percentile £403 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,187 908 2,191
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.13 £16.95 £15.47
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% +8.91%
75th Percentile £67.86 £59.93 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

Malware Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Malware Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Malware Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 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
South West - 1 £800 - 1
Malware Reverse Engineering
UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds