Reverse Engineering Contracts

Reverse Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 626 715
Rank change year-on-year +102 +89 -190
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 58 86 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 56 103
10th Percentile £396 £444 £428
25th Percentile £406 £474 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £738
90th Percentile £688 £806 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% -8.70% -20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.73 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reverse Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
England +95 48 £438 -20.45% 35
UK excluding London +60 38 £438 -16.67% 29
Work from Home +106 17 £550 -8.33% 13
Midlands +48 12 £438 -2.78% 6
London +76 11 £525 -12.50% 6
West Midlands +41 11 £438 -2.78% 3
South West +17 8 £625 +25.00% 5
South East +13 8 £425 -34.62% 8
North of England +37 7 £423 -15.40% 5
North East - 5 £423 -
Scotland - 3 £550 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
East of England +11 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 3

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (6.90%) CICS
1 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) IIS
3 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.72%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) AWS
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.72%) Azure
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (29.31%) Firewall
2 4 (6.90%) AMQP
2 4 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (6.90%) MQTT
2 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.90%) tcpdump
2 4 (6.90%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.45%) DMZ
3 2 (3.45%) Modbus
4 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) Metadata
1 10 (17.24%) Metadata Repository
2 8 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.34%) Apache Hive
3 6 (10.34%) Tableau
4 5 (8.62%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.90%) DB2
6 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.72%) Adabas
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.72%) Big Data
7 1 (1.72%) GIS
7 1 (1.72%) Impala
7 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.72%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.72%) Sqoop
7 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) ER Studio
2 2 (3.45%) ERwin
3 1 (1.72%) CA Gen
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.72%) RStudio
General
1 15 (25.86%) Public Sector
2 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Legal
4 9 (15.52%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.62%) Billing
5 5 (8.62%) Finance
6 3 (5.17%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Police
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Analyst
2 11 (18.97%) SOC Analyst
3 10 (17.24%) Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Architect
5 7 (12.07%) Data Architect
6 6 (10.34%) Data Analyst
6 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) C Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior
8 4 (6.90%) Mainframe Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 3 (5.17%) Data Business Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) Linux Build Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Mainframe Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Server Build Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Windows Build Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) ISPF
1 4 (6.90%) OLE
2 3 (5.17%) XML
3 2 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.45%) JSON
3 2 (3.45%) Web Services
3 2 (3.45%) XSLT
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) Django
4 1 (1.72%) Kafka
4 1 (1.72%) Middleware
4 1 (1.72%) Sphinx
4 1 (1.72%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (6.90%) IoT
1 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Mainframe
1 4 (6.90%) YARA
2 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.72%) Linked Data
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.93%) Linux
2 10 (17.24%) Mac OS X
3 7 (12.07%) Windows
4 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.34%) Unix
5 4 (6.90%) zOS
6 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.72%) CentOS
7 1 (1.72%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Data Modelling
2 16 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (25.86%) SIEM
4 14 (24.14%) Incident Management
4 14 (24.14%) Malware Reverse Engineering
4 14 (24.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 14 (24.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (22.41%) Data Analysis
6 11 (18.97%) Migration
7 10 (17.24%) Computer Forensics
7 10 (17.24%) Purple Team
7 10 (17.24%) Risk Management
7 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (17.24%) Threat Analysis
8 9 (15.52%) Data Governance
8 9 (15.52%) Impact Analysis
9 8 (13.79%) Data Management
9 8 (13.79%) Data Migration
10 7 (12.07%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) SQL
2 6 (10.34%) PL/SQL
3 5 (8.62%) C
3 5 (8.62%) ProC
3 5 (8.62%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.90%) COBOL
5 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) Java
6 1 (1.72%) JCL
6 1 (1.72%) Natural
6 1 (1.72%) R
6 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.72%) CCNA
5 1 (1.72%) CCSP
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) GDPR
2 14 (24.14%) NIST
3 11 (18.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (17.24%) HIPAA
4 10 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (5.17%) QA
6 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
6 2 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Snort
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) CA Endevor
1 4 (6.90%) Kibana
2 2 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Oracle
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Remedy
3 4 (6.90%) Google
3 4 (6.90%) IBM
3 4 (6.90%) Splunk
4 2 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (3.45%) IDERA
4 2 (3.45%) Informatica
5 1 (1.72%) CA
5 1 (1.72%) Citrix
5 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.72%) F5
5 1 (1.72%) Imperva
5 1 (1.72%) OpenText
5 1 (1.72%) SAP