Reverse Engineering Contracts in London

Reverse Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 385 435
Rank change year-on-year +27 +50 +116
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 7 13 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.052% 0.076% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.085% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 27
10th Percentile £400 £453 £458
25th Percentile £459 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -4.17% +12.68%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £719
90th Percentile £628 £725 £825
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,490 15,269 22,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.08% 88.75% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,362 10,850 16,681
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 266 257
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.12 £18.58
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.40 £41.04
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -21.06% +14.00%
75th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.45 £70.38 £82.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in London

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering in London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Engineering in London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in London

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Central London -5 2 £525 -22.22% 1
Reverse Engineering
England

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) dbt
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Android Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IAM Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Malware Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (28.57%) RBAC
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) API Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Application Security
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lineage
2 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (14.29%) Product Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Workday