Malware Analysis Job Trends, Salaries & Related Skills in Edinburgh

Malware Analysis
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Malware Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	-	89	103
Rank change year-on-year	-	+14	+54
Permanent jobs citing Malware Analysis	0	11	5
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh	-	0.92%	0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	-	0.97%	0.53%
Number of salaries quoted	0	0	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£45,512
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£47,610
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-9.32%
75^th Percentile	-	-	£49,707
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Scotland median annual salary	-	-	£47,610
% change year-on-year	-	-	-9.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Malware Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	890	1,139	935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh	86.83%	95.23%	94.16%
Number of salaries quoted	382	442	748
10^th Percentile	£26,000	£35,105	£31,000
25^th Percentile	£29,000	£45,000	£46,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£40,000	£57,500	£62,500
Median % change year-on-year	-30.43%	-8.00%	+4.17%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£75,000	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£89,875	£93,778	£95,019
Scotland median annual salary	£40,000	£55,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	-27.27%	+4.76%	-6.68%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Malware Analysis relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.