Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Reverse Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 119 127
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +52
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.047% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.12% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £423 -
25th Percentile £510 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
75th Percentile £530 £513 -
90th Percentile - £528 -
Central London median daily rate £520 £475 -
% change year-on-year +9.47% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,878 1,605 2,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.55% 92.19% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,035 1,465
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reverse Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reverse Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks