Reverse Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 361 420
Rank change year-on-year +47 +59 +54
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 22 38 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 29
10th Percentile £363 £396 £433
25th Percentile £500 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -20.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £585
90th Percentile £650 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
UK median hourly rate - £21.73 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +49 11 £575 -8.00% 5
South East +41 3 £500 +17.65% 10
North of England +15 3 £375 -11.35% 1
Scotland +13 3 £413 -25.00% 7
Yorkshire +8 2 £375 -
Wales - 2 £600 - 1
North West - 1 £700 - 1
Reverse Engineering
UK

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Metadata
3 2 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) HBase
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 11 (50.00%) Git
2 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Burp Suite
3 2 (9.09%) Metasploit
3 2 (9.09%) Toad
4 1 (4.55%) ERwin
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Analyst
1 4 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (18.18%) Tester
2 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Report Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) REST
1 11 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (63.64%) Agile
3 11 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 11 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 11 (50.00%) Validation
4 10 (45.45%) NsoIT
4 10 (45.45%) Service Management
4 10 (45.45%) System Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) Security Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.64%) DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) Metadata Management
7 3 (13.64%) User Stories
7 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 11 (50.00%) Bash
3 10 (45.45%) PowerShell
4 7 (31.82%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 2 (9.09%) C
6 2 (9.09%) C++
6 2 (9.09%) Java
6 2 (9.09%) Ruby
6 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) CCNP
2 10 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (45.45%) OCA
2 10 (45.45%) Oracle Certification
2 10 (45.45%) RHCA
2 10 (45.45%) RHCE
2 10 (45.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) CREST Certified
3 2 (9.09%) Cyber Scheme
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) GPEN
3 2 (9.09%) GWAPT
3 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.09%) OSCE
3 2 (9.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Ansible
1 11 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 11 (50.00%) Puppet
2 10 (45.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 10 (45.45%) Cisco
2 10 (45.45%) VMware
3 7 (31.82%) Atlassian
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (9.09%) SAP
6 1 (4.55%) Informatica