Reverse Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 801 818 870
Rank change year-on-year +17 +52 -112
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 93 172 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 70 103 194
10th Percentile £30,925 £45,000 £40,491
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £81,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.07% +16.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reverse Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reverse Engineering.

Salary trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +36 79 £75,000 +7.14% 38
London +129 45 £75,000 +12.62% 10
UK excluding London -68 43 £58,750 -16.07% 28
Work from Home +29 30 £63,750 -8.93% 16
North of England +33 18 £58,750 -18.97% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £28,000 - 1
South East +4 9 £61,250 -18.33% 7
North West -3 9 £62,500 -13.79% 2
Scotland - 9 - - 2
South West -54 7 £73,750 -1.67% 4
East of England +27 5 £62,500 +4.17% 5
West Midlands +10 4 £62,500 -7.41% 3
Midlands -5 4 £62,500 -7.41% 8
North East +1 3 £62,500 -12.28%

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 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.51%) AWS
1 20 (21.51%) GCP
2 18 (19.35%) Azure
3 10 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 8 (8.60%) SaaS
6 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (33.33%) Network Security
2 20 (21.51%) Firewall
3 17 (18.28%) DNS
4 4 (4.30%) Internet
4 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.30%) Wireless
4 4 (4.30%) Wireless Security
5 3 (3.23%) BGP
5 3 (3.23%) DMZ
5 3 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.23%) IPsec
5 3 (3.23%) MPLS
5 3 (3.23%) OSPF
5 3 (3.23%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.23%) SSL
5 3 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Power BI
2 2 (2.15%) Metadata
2 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.08%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.08%) SAS EBI
3 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (34.41%) Burp Suite
1 32 (34.41%) Metasploit
2 15 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.30%) Git
4 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.08%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.08%) JIRA
6 1 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 41 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.20%) Finance
4 6 (6.45%) Banking
4 6 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.38%) Law
5 5 (5.38%) Retail
6 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Automotive
7 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.08%) Billing
9 1 (1.08%) Electronics
9 1 (1.08%) Games
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (39.78%) Penetration Tester
1 37 (39.78%) Tester
2 16 (17.20%) Senior
3 14 (15.05%) Software Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Principal Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Principal Software Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Windows Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Test Technician
8 6 (6.45%) Architect
8 6 (6.45%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
8 6 (6.45%) Vulnerability Manager
9 4 (4.30%) Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Security Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) .NET
2 5 (5.38%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
3 4 (4.30%) REST
4 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.23%) CSS
4 3 (3.23%) HTML
5 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.15%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.15%) HTML5 Boilerplate
5 2 (2.15%) LINQ
5 2 (2.15%) LINQ to SQL
5 2 (2.15%) Node.js
5 2 (2.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (2.15%) Web Services
6 1 (1.08%) Ajax
6 1 (1.08%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (1.08%) MERN Stack
6 1 (1.08%) POSIX
6 1 (1.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) PKI
2 9 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.68%) Virtual Team
3 7 (7.53%) Security Posture
4 6 (6.45%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.30%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.30%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.08%) Clustering
8 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.08%) IoT
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (46.24%) Linux
2 34 (36.56%) Windows
3 32 (34.41%) Kali Linux
4 9 (9.68%) Android
4 9 (9.68%) Apple iOS
4 9 (9.68%) Mac OS
5 5 (5.38%) Unix
6 2 (2.15%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.08%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (74.19%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (52.69%) Information Security
3 42 (45.16%) Penetration Testing
4 37 (39.78%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (37.63%) Computer Science
6 34 (36.56%) Malware Analysis
7 33 (35.48%) Application Security
7 33 (35.48%) Red Team
7 33 (35.48%) Security Testing
8 30 (32.26%) Critical Thinking
9 28 (30.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 19 (20.43%) Threat Modelling
11 17 (18.28%) Agile
12 16 (17.20%) Data Modelling
13 15 (16.13%) Software Engineering
13 15 (16.13%) Vulnerability Management
14 14 (15.05%) Cryptography
14 14 (15.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 14 (15.05%) Test Automation
14 14 (15.05%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.96%) Python
2 12 (12.90%) C#
3 7 (7.53%) Java
3 7 (7.53%) SQL
4 6 (6.45%) Bash
5 5 (5.38%) Go
5 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.30%) C
6 4 (4.30%) C++
7 3 (3.23%) Perl
7 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.15%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.08%) PHP
9 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.08%) ProC
9 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (52.69%) Degree
2 32 (34.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (16.13%) CISSP
3 15 (16.13%) GIAC
4 14 (15.05%) CISM
4 14 (15.05%) CRISC
4 14 (15.05%) ISSMP
5 10 (10.75%) OSCP
6 9 (9.68%) CREST Certified
7 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
8 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
9 4 (4.30%) CHECK Team Member
9 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.15%) GCFA
10 2 (2.15%) GCIH
10 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.08%) GCFE
11 1 (1.08%) GCIA
11 1 (1.08%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.05%) COBIT
2 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.08%) ISO 13485
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (16.13%) Ansible
2 7 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.30%) Nmap
4 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) Alibaba
3 11 (11.83%) Google
4 9 (9.68%) Dell
5 3 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.15%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.15%) McAfee
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle