Malware Analysis Job Trends in Reading

Malware Analysis
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Malware Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs citing Malware Analysis 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.062% - 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% - 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile - - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £51,750 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,118 441 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 69.35% 84.64% 80.30%
Number of salaries quoted 829 268 556
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,563 £73,813
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,125 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -18.33% +9.09%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Malware Analysis job vacancy trend in Reading

Malware Analysis
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Malware Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Malware Analysis

Malware Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft