Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Reverse Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.23% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £375 -
% change year-on-year +36.67% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 750 428 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.42% 92.84% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 286 414
10th Percentile £325 £263 £300
25th Percentile £419 £352 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £588
90th Percentile £629 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 25
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.54 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -72.38%
75th Percentile £24.29 £98.08 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £15.24
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.15 £27.50 £12.53
% change year-on-year -26.73% +119.47% -53.59%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in Leeds

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Reverse Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 2 (100.00%) Okta