Malware Analysis Contracts with Work from Home Options

Malware Analysis
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Malware Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Malware Analysis over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 448 612
Rank change year-on-year +102 +164 -149
Contract jobs citing Malware Analysis 4 20 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.080% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.089% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 7
10th Percentile £489 - £450
25th Percentile £545 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £651 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £770 £614 £750
90th Percentile £833 £677 £779
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Malware Analysis 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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Malware Analysis
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Malware Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Malware Analysis trend for jobs with a WFH option

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Malware Analysis.

Malware Analysis daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Malware Analysis over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Malware Analysis daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Malware Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Client Services Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Team
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Red Team
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) White-Box Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) CHECK Team Member
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft