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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 809 897 1145
Rank change year-on-year +88 +248 -318
Permanent jobs citing Malware Analysis 80 81 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.077% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.080% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 43 55 66
10th Percentile £57,500 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £80,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% +15.00%

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 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +111 66 £75,000 +7.14% 15
UK excluding London -6 41 £60,000 -11.11% 10
London +148 39 £75,000 - 5
Work from Home +68 30 £60,000 -14.29% 6
South West +5 18 - - 1
Scotland -51 14 - - 2
South East +17 5 £60,000 -15.79% 5
North of England +34 3 £100,000 +42.86% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
East of England +26 1 £60,000 +41.18%
North West -2 1 £100,000 +42.86%

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 7 (8.75%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) Azure
4 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.25%) IaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (41.25%) Network Security
2 12 (15.00%) Firewall
3 6 (7.50%) Internet
3 6 (7.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (5.00%) Wireless
5 4 (5.00%) Wireless Security
6 3 (3.75%) HTTP
7 2 (2.50%) DMZ
7 2 (2.50%) DNS
7 2 (2.50%) SMTP
7 2 (2.50%) tcpdump
7 2 (2.50%) VoIP
7 2 (2.50%) VPN
7 2 (2.50%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (41.25%) Burp Suite
2 32 (40.00%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 52 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (38.75%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Military
4 11 (13.75%) Aerospace
5 7 (8.75%) Finance
6 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Aeronautics
7 1 (1.25%) Automotive
7 1 (1.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (41.25%) Penetration Tester
1 33 (41.25%) Tester
2 25 (31.25%) Analyst
3 19 (23.75%) Senior
4 16 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 14 (17.50%) Support Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Security Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Lead
9 2 (2.50%) Operations Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Security Analyst
10 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant
10 1 (1.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 1 (1.25%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Cyber Defence
2 12 (15.00%) 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
5 5 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (6.25%) 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
8 1 (1.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 57 (71.25%) Linux
2 34 (42.50%) Windows
3 32 (40.00%) Kali Linux
4 18 (22.50%) Unix
5 15 (18.75%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (67.50%) Information Security
3 44 (55.00%) Penetration Testing
4 34 (42.50%) Reverse Engineering
5 33 (41.25%) Red Team
6 32 (40.00%) Application Security
6 32 (40.00%) Computer Science
6 32 (40.00%) Incident Response
7 30 (37.50%) Critical Thinking
7 30 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (37.50%) Security Operations
7 30 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 29 (36.25%) Security Testing
9 22 (27.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 22 (27.50%) Threat Intelligence
10 19 (23.75%) ITIL
11 17 (21.25%) Actionable Insight
11 17 (21.25%) Open Source
12 16 (20.00%) Service Delivery
12 16 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Python
2 15 (18.75%) Bash
3 5 (6.25%) C#
3 5 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.25%) Go
4 1 (1.25%) 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 8 (10.00%) CREST Certified
7 6 (7.50%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
7 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
8 5 (6.25%) CHECK Team Member
9 4 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (5.00%) OSCP
10 3 (3.75%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (2.50%) CASP
11 2 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.50%) GCED
11 2 (2.50%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (8.75%) 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%) Nmap
1 4 (5.00%) QRadar
2 2 (2.50%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Dell
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) IBM
3 4 (5.00%) Splunk
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