Malware Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Malware Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Malware Analysis over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 834 889 1164
Rank change year-on-year +55 +275 -321
Permanent jobs citing Malware Analysis 80 75 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.072% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.076% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 45 49 67
10th Percentile £53,750 £38,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £41,333
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% +2.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £81,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +35.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Malware Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Malware Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Analysis in the UK

Malware Analysis
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Malware Analysis.

Salary trend for Malware Analysis in the UK

Malware Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Malware Analysis over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Malware Analysis in the UK

Malware Analysis
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
England +106 66 £75,000 +7.14% 16
London +146 40 £75,000 - 8
UK excluding London -15 40 £60,000 -11.11% 11
Work from Home +64 29 £60,000 -14.29% 12
South West - 17 - -
Scotland -54 14 - - 5
South East +25 5 £60,000 -11.11% 4
North of England +40 3 £100,000 +42.86% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
East of England +10 1 £60,000 +41.18%
North West +8 1 £100,000 +42.86% 1

Malware Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.75%) SaaS
2 6 (7.50%) AWS
2 6 (7.50%) Azure
3 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.25%) IaaS
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (40.00%) Network Security
2 13 (16.25%) Firewall
3 5 (6.25%) Internet
3 5 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.75%) Wireless
4 3 (3.75%) Wireless Security
5 2 (2.50%) DMZ
5 2 (2.50%) DNS
5 2 (2.50%) HTTP
5 2 (2.50%) SMTP
5 2 (2.50%) tcpdump
5 2 (2.50%) VoIP
5 2 (2.50%) VPN
5 2 (2.50%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (38.75%) Burp Suite
1 31 (38.75%) Metasploit
General
1 52 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (38.75%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Military
4 11 (13.75%) Aerospace
5 9 (11.25%) Finance
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 31 (38.75%) Penetration Tester
1 31 (38.75%) Tester
2 27 (33.75%) Analyst
3 19 (23.75%) Senior
4 16 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 14 (17.50%) Support Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Security Analyst
7 6 (7.50%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.50%) Lead
11 2 (2.50%) Operations Analyst
11 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Analyst
11 2 (2.50%) Senior Operations Analyst
11 2 (2.50%) Senior Security Analyst
12 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant
12 1 (1.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 1 (1.25%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Cyber Defence
2 11 (13.75%) Operational Technology
3 10 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (6.25%) Cybercrime
6 3 (3.75%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 56 (70.00%) Linux
2 32 (40.00%) Windows
3 31 (38.75%) Kali Linux
4 17 (21.25%) Unix
5 14 (17.50%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (68.75%) Information Security
3 42 (52.50%) Penetration Testing
4 33 (41.25%) Reverse Engineering
5 32 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 32 (40.00%) Incident Response
6 31 (38.75%) Application Security
6 31 (38.75%) Red Team
7 30 (37.50%) Security Operations
7 30 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 29 (36.25%) Critical Thinking
8 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (35.00%) Security Testing
10 22 (27.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 22 (27.50%) Threat Intelligence
11 19 (23.75%) ITIL
12 18 (22.50%) SIEM
13 17 (21.25%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (21.25%) Open Source
14 16 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Python
2 14 (17.50%) Bash
3 5 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (3.75%) C#
4 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (65.00%) Degree
2 31 (38.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (25.00%) CISSP
4 16 (20.00%) CISM
4 16 (20.00%) GCIA
4 16 (20.00%) GCIH
5 14 (17.50%) GREM
6 6 (7.50%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (7.50%) CREST Certified
7 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
8 4 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (3.75%) CHECK Team Member
9 3 (3.75%) OSCP
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (2.50%) CASP
10 2 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.50%) GCED
10 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (7.50%) NIST
2 3 (3.75%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.50%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) QRadar
2 3 (3.75%) Nmap
3 2 (2.50%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Dell
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Splunk
3 4 (5.00%) IBM
4 2 (2.50%) LogRhythm
4 2 (2.50%) McAfee
5 1 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.25%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.25%) Qualys
5 1 (1.25%) Tripwire
5 1 (1.25%) VMware