Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Reverse Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 83 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
England median daily rate £553 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +0.45% -12.00% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,350 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 184 359
10th Percentile £14.15 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Reverse Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Reverse Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £500 - 2
Reverse Engineering
England

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Liquidlogic
1 1 (50.00%) NEC