Antivirus Management Contract Job Trends

Antivirus Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Antivirus Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 541 604
Rank change year-on-year -2 +63 +153
Contract jobs citing Antivirus Management 22 12 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.033% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.038% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 17
10th Percentile - £297 £143
25th Percentile £213 £325 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £475 £300
Median % change year-on-year -52.63% +58.33% -20.00%
75th Percentile £272 £500 £738
90th Percentile £431 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £475 £638
% change year-on-year -52.63% -25.49% +155.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.38 - -
Median hourly rate £17.75 - -
75th Percentile £18.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.75 - -

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 31,132 31,236 41,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.15% 86.03% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,460 18,783 27,966
10th Percentile £295 £310 £311
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 1,107 1,584
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.41 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -20.09% +26.43%
75th Percentile £43.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.50% -21.35% +53.93%

Antivirus Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Antivirus Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Antivirus Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Antivirus Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Antivirus Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Antivirus Management

Antivirus Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Antivirus Management over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Antivirus Management in the UK

Antivirus Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Antivirus Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Antivirus Management

Antivirus Management
Top 11 Contract Job 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 4 November 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
England -23 20 £223 -53.16% 15
UK excluding London -10 15 £225 -52.63% 17
London -3 7 £220 -53.68%
East of England -6 7 £223 +17.11% 4
South West - 7 £220 - 5
Work from Home +2 3 £450 -5.26% 3
Scotland - 2 £438 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £220 - 1
Midlands - 1 £220 - 2
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1

Antivirus Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) SharePoint
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
3 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
4 2 (9.09%) Mimecast
4 2 (9.09%) Tessian
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) VPN
2 3 (13.64%) DMARC
3 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (9.09%) Modbus
3 2 (9.09%) SMTP
4 1 (4.55%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Law
4 2 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Desktop Engineer
1 12 (54.55%) Desktop Support
1 12 (54.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 12 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) iPad
1 6 (27.27%) iPhone
1 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.64%) CMDB
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Insider Threat
3 2 (9.09%) Life Science
3 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 2 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (9.09%) SCADA
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows 10
3 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 2 (9.09%) Unix
6 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) ITIL
3 10 (45.45%) Customer Service
4 7 (31.82%) Inventory Management
5 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (27.27%) Time Management
6 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 4 (18.18%) Information Security
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
7 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
7 3 (13.64%) Process Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Security Management
8 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (9.09%) Data Flow Diagram
8 2 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) CCNA
3 2 (9.09%) CCNP
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) McAfee
2 6 (27.27%) Starlink
3 2 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) Rockwell
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) Veeam
4 1 (4.55%) Apple
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Kaspersky
4 1 (4.55%) Proofpoint
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Sophos