Malware Analysis Contracts in England

Malware Analysis
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Malware Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Malware Analysis over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 591 752
Rank change year-on-year +68 +161 -120
Contract jobs citing Malware Analysis 28 46 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.097% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.11% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 18
10th Percentile - £450 £425
25th Percentile £559 £513 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £713
90th Percentile £625 £688 £776
UK median daily rate £570 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% +2.27% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Malware Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Malware Analysis in England

Malware Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Malware Analysis in England.

Daily rate trend for Malware Analysis in England

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Analysis in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Analysis in England

Malware Analysis
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Analysis within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 22 £570 - 1
London +76 3 £775 +24.00% 12
East of England - 2 £453 -
South East - 1 - - 4
Malware Analysis
UK

Malware Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.57%) IaaS
2 1 (3.57%) PaaS
2 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DHCP
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) FTP
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) tcpdump
1 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
General
1 20 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Analyst
2 22 (78.57%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 18 (64.29%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 18 (64.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Client Services Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Security Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Senior
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 19 (67.86%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Cybersecurity
1 26 (92.86%) SIEM
2 25 (89.29%) Security Operations
3 23 (82.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 22 (78.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 22 (78.57%) Open Source
4 22 (78.57%) OSINT
4 22 (78.57%) SOAR
4 22 (78.57%) Threat Intelligence
5 19 (67.86%) Cyber Intelligence
6 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 3 (10.71%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 2 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
9 2 (7.14%) Information Security
9 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 2 (7.14%) Security Architecture
9 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Perl
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 22 (78.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) CISSP
4 2 (7.14%) CCNA
4 2 (7.14%) CCSP
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) CCNP
5 1 (3.57%) CEH
5 1 (3.57%) CHFI
5 1 (3.57%) EnCE
5 1 (3.57%) GCED
5 1 (3.57%) GIAC
5 1 (3.57%) GPEN
5 1 (3.57%) GWAPT
5 1 (3.57%) ISSEP
5 1 (3.57%) OSCE
5 1 (3.57%) OSCP
5 1 (3.57%) OSWP
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (3.57%) CSIRT
1 1 (3.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Splunk