Malware Detection/Protection Job Trends in England

Malware Detection/Protection
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 664 653
Rank change year-on-year +65 -11 +267
Permanent jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 3 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.006% 0.031% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.034% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 16
10th Percentile £36,450 - £50,563
25th Percentile £47,625 £35,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £37,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -42.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £43,750 £90,625
90th Percentile - - £92,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £37,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +80.00% -37.50% +49.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Malware Detection/Protection 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,581 44,028 42,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.75% 90.38% 90.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,429 21,729 32,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Malware Detection/Protection relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Malware Detection/Protection job vacancy trend in England

Malware Detection/Protection
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Malware Detection/Protection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Malware Detection/Protection

Malware Detection/Protection
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Malware Detection/Protection in England

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection within the England region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 2 £67,500 -
South East +13 1 £30,000 -29.41% 1
Malware Detection/Protection
UK

Malware Detection/Protection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft