Reverse Engineering Contracts in Central London

Reverse Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 132 164
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +39
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.098% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £433 £513 £709
25th Percentile £463 £569 £722
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -10.00% +38.76%
75th Percentile £588 £694 £784
90th Percentile £618 £698 £801
London median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,921 2,156 3,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.71% 91.43% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,492 2,251
10th Percentile £337 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £713
90th Percentile £775 £797 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 24
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.84 £16.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -13.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £53.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.55 £41.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% -19.16% +16.08%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in Central London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in Central London

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Engineering in Central London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reverse Engineering in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in Central London

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 July 2025. 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
City of London +8 2 £525 -22.22% 2
Reverse Engineering
London

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks