Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Reverse Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 77 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.058% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £700 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,439 795 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.05% 89.33% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 556 849
10th Percentile £306 £303 £325
25th Percentile £392 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -6.70% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £598
90th Percentile £650 £675 £694
North West median daily rate £467 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 28 76
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.64 £12.45
25th Percentile £40.00 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £54.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +109.62% -25.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £72.81 £60.31
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.48 £73.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £24.10
% change year-on-year +72.52% +32.28% -33.06%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL