Malware Detection/Protection Jobs

Malware Detection/Protection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Malware Detection/Protection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Malware Detection/Protection over the 6 months to 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 709 1008 1017
Rank change year-on-year +299 +9 -281
Permanent jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 20 70 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.057% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.060% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 19 59 47
10th Percentile £42,100 £22,950 £30,550
25th Percentile £50,563 £23,500 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £43,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +67.44% -18.10% -19.23%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,000 £85,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £26,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +111.54% -35.00% -14.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Malware Detection/Protection 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 49,044 117,345 121,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.06% 95.75% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 35,534 71,933 82,211
10th Percentile £32,250 £34,605 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.04% +3.63%

Malware Detection/Protection
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Malware Detection/Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Detection/Protection in the UK

Malware Detection/Protection
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection.

Salary trend for Malware Detection/Protection in the UK

Malware Detection/Protection
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection over the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Malware Detection/Protection in the UK

Malware Detection/Protection
Top 8 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 December 2023. 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 +321 16 £90,000 +71.43% 8
London +249 12 £90,000 +33.33% 2
UK excluding London +216 8 £55,000 +111.54% 6
Work from Home +221 6 £47,500 +30.76% 3
Scotland +21 4 £36,750 +53.13% 1
South East - 3 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands +118 1 £70,000 +191.67%
Midlands +115 1 £70,000 +191.67%

Malware Detection/Protection
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) SaaS
3 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 10 (50.00%) IaaS
3 10 (50.00%) PaaS
4 9 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 5 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Network Security
1 10 (50.00%) WAN
2 6 (30.00%) Firewall
3 5 (25.00%) LAN
3 5 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Wireless
5 2 (10.00%) MPLS
5 2 (10.00%) SAN
5 2 (10.00%) VPN
5 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.00%) WLAN
6 1 (5.00%) Internet
6 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
1 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.00%) Law
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
2 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (35.00%) IT Engineer
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior IT Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Design Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Design Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (65.00%) SIEM
3 11 (55.00%) Cloud Security
3 11 (55.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 10 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (50.00%) Zero Trust
5 9 (45.00%) High Availability
5 9 (45.00%) Security Monitoring
6 7 (35.00%) Information Security
6 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (35.00%) Migration
7 6 (30.00%) DevSecOps
8 5 (25.00%) Agile
8 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (15.00%) Change Control
9 3 (15.00%) ITIL
9 3 (15.00%) Network Management
9 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) Go
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) CISSP
1 11 (55.00%) GSEC
2 6 (30.00%) Degree
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) NIST
2 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) SLA
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
4 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) CASB
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 5 (25.00%) F5
4 4 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (15.00%) Cisco
5 3 (15.00%) NetApp
6 1 (5.00%) CA
6 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm
6 1 (5.00%) Sun
6 1 (5.00%) Trustwave