Malware Analysis Contracts

Malware Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 644 832
Rank change year-on-year +100 +188 -157
Contract jobs citing Malware Analysis 35 50 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.087% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.097% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 41 24
10th Percentile - £450 £425
25th Percentile £559 £513 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £663
90th Percentile £625 £688 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +8.57% -6.67% +20.00%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Malware Analysis in the UK

Malware Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Analysis in the UK

Malware Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Malware Analysis in the UK

Malware Analysis
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +102 33 £570 +3.64% 13
UK excluding London +61 31 £570 +8.57% 8
South West - 26 £570 - 1
Work from Home +96 4 £651 +18.41% 8
London +82 4 £775 +29.44% 8
East of England - 2 £453 -
Scotland - 2 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 5

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (2.86%) IaaS
2 1 (2.86%) PaaS
2 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DHCP
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) FTP
1 1 (2.86%) HTTP
1 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.86%) tcpdump
1 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
General
1 25 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (85.71%) Analyst
2 26 (74.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 20 (57.14%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 20 (57.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Client Services Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Incident Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (2.86%) Product Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Security Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Security Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 21 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (8.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (91.43%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (88.57%) Security Operations
3 30 (85.71%) SIEM
4 27 (77.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 26 (74.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 26 (74.29%) Open Source
5 26 (74.29%) OSINT
5 26 (74.29%) SOAR
5 26 (74.29%) Threat Intelligence
6 21 (60.00%) Cyber Intelligence
7 7 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (11.43%) Penetration Testing
10 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
11 2 (5.71%) Change Management
11 2 (5.71%) Data Loss Prevention
11 2 (5.71%) Incident Management
11 2 (5.71%) Information Security
11 2 (5.71%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) Perl
1 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (74.29%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) CISSP
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) CCNA
4 2 (5.71%) CCSP
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (2.86%) CHECK Team Member
5 1 (2.86%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.86%) EC-Council LPT
5 1 (2.86%) ECIH
5 1 (2.86%) ECSA
5 1 (2.86%) GAWN
5 1 (2.86%) GCFE
5 1 (2.86%) GPPA
5 1 (2.86%) GXPN
5 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.86%) SANS
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (2.86%) CSIRT
1 1 (2.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Cisco
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Splunk