Reverse Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 413 464
Rank change year-on-year +64 +51 -95
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 36 43 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 25
10th Percentile £396 £435 £430
25th Percentile £406 £455 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.35% -16.36%
75th Percentile £597 £583 £720
90th Percentile £688 £676 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.73 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Midlands +41 12 £438 -2.78% 8
West Midlands +35 11 £438 -2.78% 3
South East +10 8 £425 -34.62% 5
South West +10 8 £625 +13.64% 2
North of England +24 5 £423 -15.40% 4
Scotland - 3 £550 - 2
North East - 3 £423 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
East of England +1 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
Reverse Engineering
UK

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) AMQP
2 3 (8.33%) MQTT
3 2 (5.56%) DMZ
3 2 (5.56%) Modbus
4 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.78%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Metadata
1 10 (27.78%) Metadata Repository
2 6 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.33%) Tableau
4 2 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.78%) GIS
5 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) ER Studio
1 2 (5.56%) ERwin
2 1 (2.78%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 14 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.78%) Legal
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Billing
4 5 (13.89%) Finance
5 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Back Office
7 1 (2.78%) Police
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Analyst
2 10 (27.78%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Architect
4 7 (19.44%) Data Architect
5 5 (13.89%) C Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Build Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Business Process Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Linux Build Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Process Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Server Build Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Build Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (5.56%) JSON
1 2 (5.56%) Web Services
1 2 (5.56%) XML
1 2 (5.56%) XSLT
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) IoT
2 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.56%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.78%) Linked Data
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 18 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (27.78%) Mac OS X
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.89%) Unix
4 3 (8.33%) Windows
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Data Modelling
2 12 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 11 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (30.56%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (30.56%) Incident Management
3 11 (30.56%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 11 (30.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 11 (30.56%) SIEM
3 11 (30.56%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (27.78%) Computer Forensics
4 10 (27.78%) Purple Team
4 10 (27.78%) Risk Management
4 10 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (27.78%) Threat Analysis
5 9 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
5 9 (25.00%) Migration
6 8 (22.22%) Data Governance
7 7 (19.44%) Data Architecture
7 7 (19.44%) Data Migration
7 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) C
2 5 (13.89%) ProC
2 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
3 4 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Python
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) Java
6 1 (2.78%) R
6 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) GDPR
2 11 (30.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (30.56%) NIST
3 10 (27.78%) HIPAA
3 10 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.56%) PMO
4 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Remedy
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (5.56%) IDERA
3 2 (5.56%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) OpenText
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk