Reverse Engineering Contracts in England

Reverse Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 576 657
Rank change year-on-year +88 +81 -159
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 49 86 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 58 86
10th Percentile £393 £450 £444
25th Percentile £406 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £655 £684 £738
90th Percentile £688 £813 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.73 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in England

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in England

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Engineering in England

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in England

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +40 13 £438 -2.78% 10
West Midlands +35 12 £438 -2.78% 4
London +64 11 £525 -16.00% 9
South East +16 8 £425 -34.62% 4
South West +11 8 £625 +13.64% 4
North of England +26 7 £423 -15.40% 3
North East - 5 £423 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
East of England +12 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
Reverse Engineering
UK

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (8.16%) CICS
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.24%) AWS
2 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.04%) Azure
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) AMQP
2 4 (8.16%) MQTT
3 2 (4.08%) DMZ
3 2 (4.08%) Modbus
4 1 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.04%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) Metadata
1 9 (18.37%) Metadata Repository
2 8 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.16%) DB2
4 3 (6.12%) Apache Hive
4 3 (6.12%) Tableau
5 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.04%) Adabas
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.04%) Big Data
6 1 (2.04%) GIS
6 1 (2.04%) Impala
6 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Sqoop
6 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) CA Gen
1 1 (2.04%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.04%) RStudio
General
1 16 (32.65%) Public Sector
2 12 (24.49%) Legal
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Manufacturing
5 5 (10.20%) Billing
6 3 (6.12%) Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Finance
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Police
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Analyst
2 12 (24.49%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (18.37%) Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Architect
5 7 (14.29%) Data Architect
6 5 (10.20%) C Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Mainframe Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior
8 3 (6.12%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) Data Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) Data Business Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Business Process Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Linux Build Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Backend Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Server Build Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) ISPF
2 2 (4.08%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.08%) JSON
2 2 (4.08%) Web Services
2 2 (4.08%) XML
2 2 (4.08%) XSLT
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) IoT
1 4 (8.16%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.08%) PKI
3 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.04%) Linked Data
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.04%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.78%) Linux
2 11 (22.45%) Mac OS X
3 6 (12.24%) Unix
4 5 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.16%) zOS
6 3 (6.12%) Windows
7 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Data Modelling
2 13 (26.53%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (26.53%) SIEM
3 12 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (24.49%) Incident Management
3 12 (24.49%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 12 (24.49%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 12 (24.49%) Vulnerability Management
4 11 (22.45%) Computer Forensics
4 11 (22.45%) Data Analysis
4 11 (22.45%) Purple Team
4 11 (22.45%) Risk Management
4 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 11 (22.45%) Threat Analysis
5 9 (18.37%) Data Governance
6 8 (16.33%) Data Management
6 8 (16.33%) Data Migration
6 8 (16.33%) Impact Analysis
6 8 (16.33%) Migration
7 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) C
2 5 (10.20%) PL/SQL
2 5 (10.20%) ProC
2 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
3 4 (8.16%) COBOL
3 4 (8.16%) Python
4 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) C++
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) JCL
5 1 (2.04%) Natural
5 1 (2.04%) R
5 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (48.98%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) CCNA
5 1 (2.04%) CCSP
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.53%) GDPR
2 12 (24.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 12 (24.49%) NIST
3 11 (22.45%) HIPAA
3 11 (22.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.08%) PMO
5 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) HDFS
2 1 (2.04%) Snort
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) CA Endevor
2 2 (4.08%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Remedy
3 4 (8.16%) IBM
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.08%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.04%) CA
5 1 (2.04%) F5
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) Imperva
5 1 (2.04%) OpenText
5 1 (2.04%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk