Antivirus Management Contracts

Antivirus Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Antivirus Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Antivirus Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 581 676
Rank change year-on-year +81 +95 +116
Contract jobs citing Antivirus Management 20 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.039% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.045% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 26
10th Percentile £205 - £176
25th Percentile £210 £175 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £193 £298
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -35.29% -0.83%
75th Percentile £331 £254 £411
90th Percentile £575 £406 £544
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £193 £298
% change year-on-year +14.29% -35.29% +98.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.95 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Antivirus Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Antivirus Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Antivirus Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Antivirus Management in the UK

Antivirus Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Antivirus Management.

Daily rate trend for Antivirus Management in the UK

Antivirus Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Antivirus Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Antivirus Management in the UK

Antivirus Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Antivirus Management.

Hourly rate trend for Antivirus Management in the UK

Antivirus Management
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Antivirus Management within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +66 20 £220 +14.29% 6
England +59 20 £220 +25.71% 8
East of England +33 7 £220 +4.76% 1
South East - 7 £575 - 1
South West +39 4 £220 +25.71%
Work from Home +49 3 £275 - 3
North of England +24 2 £313 - 3
North West +14 1 £275 - 2
North East - 1 £350 -

Antivirus Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) VPN
2 6 (30.00%) Firewall
3 5 (25.00%) Internet
3 5 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (10.00%) DNS
5 1 (5.00%) DHCP
5 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.00%) VSAN
5 1 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Desktop Support
2 7 (35.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 5 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
3 5 (25.00%) Service Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Senior IT Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Service Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Support
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) iPad
1 11 (55.00%) iPhone
1 11 (55.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (55.00%) Customer Service
2 11 (55.00%) Inventory Management
2 11 (55.00%) ITIL
2 11 (55.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (55.00%) Time Management
3 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Contract Management
4 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 5 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (20.00%) Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Case Management
5 4 (20.00%) Server Management
5 4 (20.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (10.00%) Design for Test
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Preventative Maintenance
7 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (55.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (55.00%) McAfee
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Symantec