Malware Detection/Protection Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Malware Detection/Protection
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 111 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% 0.053% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.064% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £535 -
England median daily rate £498 £668 £513
% change year-on-year -25.52% +30.34% -7.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,628 1,552 1,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.25% 82.51% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 976 1,187
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 39 53
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.85
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +50.85%

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Malware Detection/Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Detection/Protection in the West Midlands

Malware Detection/Protection
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Malware Detection/Protection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Malware Detection/Protection

Malware Detection/Protection
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Birmingham - 1 - -
Malware Detection/Protection
England

Malware Detection/Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware