Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Reverse Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 61 80
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.12% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £516
25th Percentile - - £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.38%
75th Percentile - - £547
90th Percentile - - £549
South West median daily rate £250 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Reverse Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 715 625 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 85.83% 89.29% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 347 529
10th Percentile £258 £213 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -8.88% +7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £645
90th Percentile £724 £750 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 82 117
10th Percentile £15.60 £37.15 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +8.33% -7.69%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reverse Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in Bristol

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Reverse Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft