Reverse Engineering Contracts in the South East

Reverse Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 187 206
Rank change year-on-year +26 +19 +53
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 2 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.058% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £410 £396 £516
25th Percentile £425 £398 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -32.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £475 £688 £688
90th Percentile £490 £697 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,087 4,522 5,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.00% 82.76% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 2,680 3,536
10th Percentile £250 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 398 247
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.18 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.39 £21.81
Median hourly rate £21.99 £54.62 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.75% +9.24% +122.22%
75th Percentile £52.90 £70.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +63.46%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the South East

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the South East

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the South East

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +21 2 £450 -34.90% 2
Berkshire +22 1 £500 -27.67% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £400 -
Reverse Engineering
England

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GPEN
1 1 (50.00%) GWAPT
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OSCE
1 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft