Malware Detection/Protection Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Malware Detection/Protection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Malware Detection/Protection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Malware Detection/Protection over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 564 628
Rank change year-on-year +157 +64 +196
Permanent jobs citing Malware Detection/Protection 6 25 43
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.074% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.081% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6 25 38
10th Percentile £40,125 £42,547 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £23,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +150.00% -52.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £26,000
90th Percentile £63,750 - £50,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £55,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year -23.42% +122.00% -50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Malware Detection/Protection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Malware Detection/Protection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Malware Detection/Protection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Malware Detection/Protection
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Malware Detection/Protection.

Malware Detection/Protection salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Malware Detection/Protection
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Malware Detection/Protection over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Malware Detection/Protection salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Malware Detection/Protection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (33.33%) iPhone
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Security Management
2 2 (33.33%) SOAR
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CASP
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft