Reverse Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Reverse Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 128 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 1 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.042% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.47% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £329 -
25th Percentile £358 £387 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.57% - -
75th Percentile £373 £538 -
90th Percentile - £545 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate - £21.73 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,095 2,337 2,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.80% 79.95% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,556 1,991
10th Percentile £210 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 166 97
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.21 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.11 £13.62 £18.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £18.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -33.64% +40.43%
75th Percentile £26.69 £34.73 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.88% +55.77%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the Midlands

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the Midlands

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the Midlands

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands -1 1 £365 -16.57% 3
Reverse Engineering
England

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware