Malware Reverse Engineering Contracts

Malware Reverse Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Malware Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Malware Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 685 840
Rank change year-on-year +120 +155 -173
Contract jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering 14 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.028% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.031% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 5
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% -9.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £515 £585 £588
90th Percentile £539 £586 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £488 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% -15.22% +7.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Malware Reverse Engineering 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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
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% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

Malware Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Malware Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Malware Reverse Engineering in the UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +106 11 £438 -15.66% 1
UK excluding London +60 11 £438 -10.26% 1
Midlands - 11 £438 - 1
West Midlands - 11 £438 - 1
Work from Home +122 4 £510 +13.33%

Malware Reverse Engineering
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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 4 (28.57%) tcpdump
2 4 (28.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
1 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 4 (28.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 10 (71.43%) Legal
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
1 10 (71.43%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Incident Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Junior
2 1 (7.14%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (28.57%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Mac OS X
3 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 14 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 14 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 14 (100.00%) SIEM
1 14 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 10 (71.43%) Computer Forensics
2 10 (71.43%) Purple Team
2 10 (71.43%) Risk Management
2 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 10 (71.43%) Threat Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Line Management
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 4 (28.57%) Inversion of Control
4 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) GDPR
1 14 (100.00%) NIST
2 10 (71.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 10 (71.43%) HIPAA
2 10 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk