Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Reverse Engineering
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
South East median daily rate £453 £613 £675
% change year-on-year -26.12% -9.26% +2.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 105 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 78.48% 86.07% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 72 133
10th Percentile £203 £200 £200
25th Percentile £275 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -11.24% +1.40%
75th Percentile £575 £533 £600
90th Percentile £720 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.70
25th Percentile £12.63 - £13.09
Median hourly rate £26.50 £15.00 £15.40
Median % change year-on-year +76.67% -2.60% -30.51%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £46.96
90th Percentile £67.50 - £67.03
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.69 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.78% -22.38% +22.22%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Worthing - 1 £480 -
Reverse Engineering
South East

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft