Reverse Engineering Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Reverse Engineering
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 46 84
Rank change year-on-year -25 +38 +3
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 2 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.25% 2.00% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 2.24% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile - - £573
25th Percentile £541 £563 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £663
90th Percentile - £625 £678
South West median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 651 401 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 80.17% 89.11% 84.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 276 585
10th Percentile £370 £345 £315
25th Percentile £463 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £691 £725
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 2 20
10th Percentile £12.50 - £12.00
25th Percentile £12.60 - £14.36
Median hourly rate £20.00 £60.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +312.65% -77.80%
75th Percentile £24.66 - £30.25
90th Percentile £46.48 - £74.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -22.76%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Reverse Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 30 March 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
Corsham -19 2 £553 -3.91% 1
Reverse Engineering
South West

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) NsoIT
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) OCA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (100.00%) RHCA
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware