The first table below looks at the demand for Reverse Engineering skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Reverse Engineering over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reverse Engineering
Rank 377 396 430
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +34
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 10 22 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.045% 0.080% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.112% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
Average daily rate £475 £323 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.28% -37.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £307 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £785 £485 £663
UK excluding London average daily rate - £289 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £43.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16410 19631 21812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.61% 71.81% 71.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11259 12893 14383
Average daily rate £450 £450 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 338 344
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Reverse Engineering
England

Reverse Engineering
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Reverse Engineering across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Reverse Engineering Jobs Demand Trend

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering across the London region.

London Reverse Engineering Daily Rate Trend

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Reverse Engineering Daily Rate Histogram

Reverse Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Reverse Engineering across the London region.

London Reverse Engineering Hourly Rate Trend

Reverse Engineering
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering within the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +10 3 £975 +56.00%
Canary Wharf - 1 £355 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Reverse Engineering
England

Reverse Engineering
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Reverse Engineering also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Reverse Engineering.

1 17 (48.57%) Penetration Testing
2 14 (40.00%) CEH
2 14 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 14 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 14 (40.00%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) CISSP
3 12 (34.29%) Shell Script
3 12 (34.29%) UNIX
3 12 (34.29%) Linux
3 12 (34.29%) Debian
3 12 (34.29%) Bash shell
3 12 (34.29%) GDB
4 11 (31.43%) Python
5 10 (28.57%) Network Security
6 7 (20.00%) Java
6 7 (20.00%) STB
7 5 (14.29%) SQL
7 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
8 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
8 4 (11.43%) Finance
9 3 (8.571%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (8.571%) Migration
9 3 (8.571%) Management Information System
9 3 (8.571%) VB6
9 3 (8.571%) MS Excel
9 3 (8.571%) RDBMS
9 3 (8.571%) Eclipse
9 3 (8.571%) Ant
9 3 (8.571%) JUnit
9 3 (8.571%) IIS

Reverse Engineering
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Reverse Engineering also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Reverse Engineering. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (8.571%) ASP.NET
1 3 (8.571%) JSP
1 3 (8.571%) Struts
1 3 (8.571%) .NET
1 3 (8.571%) HTML
2 2 (5.714%) Middleware
3 1 (2.857%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.857%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.571%) IIS
2 2 (5.714%) SAP Portal
2 2 (5.714%) SAP EP
3 1 (2.857%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.857%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (8.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 10 (28.57%) Network Security
3 2 (5.714%) HTTP
4 1 (2.857%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.571%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) GDB
2 3 (8.571%) Eclipse
2 3 (8.571%) Ant
2 3 (8.571%) JUnit
2 3 (8.571%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (8.571%) Hudson
3 1 (2.857%) Xcode
General
1 4 (11.43%) Finance
2 1 (2.857%) Back Office
2 1 (2.857%) Games
2 1 (2.857%) Banking
2 1 (2.857%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Tester
1 17 (48.57%) Penetration Tester
2 7 (20.00%) Consultant
3 6 (17.14%) Security Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 3 (8.571%) Test Analyst
5 3 (8.571%) Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Web Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Tester
7 1 (2.857%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.857%) SAP Portals Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) STB
2 3 (8.571%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.857%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.857%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (2.857%) CMDB
3 1 (2.857%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.857%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Windows
2 12 (34.29%) UNIX
2 12 (34.29%) Linux
2 12 (34.29%) Debian
3 1 (2.857%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.857%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Penetration Testing
2 14 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (8.571%) Migration
4 2 (5.714%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (5.714%) SAP Security
4 2 (5.714%) SAP Implementation
4 2 (5.714%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (2.857%) Service Management
5 1 (2.857%) Change Management
5 1 (2.857%) Data Management
5 1 (2.857%) ERP
5 1 (2.857%) Data Modelling
5 1 (2.857%) ETL
5 1 (2.857%) Security Testing
5 1 (2.857%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.857%) Incident Management
5 1 (2.857%) Time Management
5 1 (2.857%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.857%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Shell Script
1 12 (34.29%) Bash shell
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) Java
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (8.571%) VB6
5 3 (8.571%) VBScript
5 3 (8.571%) VB
5 3 (8.571%) VBA
5 3 (8.571%) C#
6 1 (2.857%) Assembly Language
6 1 (2.857%) C
6 1 (2.857%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) CEH
1 14 (40.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.571%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.571%) JBoss
3 2 (5.714%) SAP
4 1 (2.857%) VMware
4 1 (2.857%) NetApp
Hounslow, Middlesex
Key Skills Ethical hacking (CREST Certified) Linux. Programming languages: C and Java... netcat, hping, gdb, etc... Proficient with neat, maintainable and documented bash shell scripting, ASM (preferably MIPS),...
Experis IT
Rate: TBC
Posted: 17 May 2013
West London
netcat, hping, gdb , etc. * Expert knowledge and understanding of Linux, IP and reverse engineering ; * Good knowledge of at least one Unix variant (preferably Debian) and at least one...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £450.00 - £490.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013