Reverse Engineering Contracts in England

Reverse Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 499 567
Rank change year-on-year +47 +68 +85
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 21 46 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 59
10th Percentile £396 £396 £450
25th Percentile £483 £406 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £597 £660 £681
90th Percentile £650 £688 £813
UK median daily rate £575 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
UK median hourly rate - £21.73 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,111 31,883 44,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.53% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,456 20,901 31,367
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 929 2,239 1,579
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.91 £10.83
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +54.64%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 May 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
South West +43 12 £575 -8.00% 8
London +42 3 £438 -16.67% 27
South East +37 3 £500 +17.65% 13
North of England +18 3 £375 -11.35% 1
Yorkshire +5 2 £375 -
North West - 1 £700 - 1
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 7 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Metadata
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) HBase
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) Pentaho
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Bitbucket
1 11 (52.38%) Git
2 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (33.33%) JIRA
4 2 (9.52%) Burp Suite
4 2 (9.52%) Metasploit
5 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (9.52%) Report Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) REST
1 11 (52.38%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Configuration Management
3 11 (52.38%) Deployment Automation
3 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Automation
3 11 (52.38%) Validation
4 10 (47.62%) NsoIT
4 10 (47.62%) Service Management
4 10 (47.62%) System Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 4 (19.05%) Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Metadata Management
7 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (9.52%) Cryptography
8 2 (9.52%) Information Security
8 2 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 11 (52.38%) Bash
3 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
4 6 (28.57%) SQL
5 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 2 (9.52%) C
6 2 (9.52%) C++
6 2 (9.52%) Java
6 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
6 2 (9.52%) Ruby
7 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) CCNP
2 10 (47.62%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (47.62%) OCA
2 10 (47.62%) Oracle Certification
2 10 (47.62%) RHCA
2 10 (47.62%) RHCE
2 10 (47.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) GPEN
3 2 (9.52%) GWAPT
3 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.52%) OSCE
3 2 (9.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) HIPAA
1 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Ansible
1 11 (52.38%) Progress Chef
1 11 (52.38%) Puppet
2 10 (47.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Oracle
2 10 (47.62%) Cisco
2 10 (47.62%) VMware
3 7 (33.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (9.52%) SAP
6 1 (4.76%) Informatica