Reverse Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Reverse Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 434 533
Rank change year-on-year +107 +99 -134
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 17 37 90
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 30 74
10th Percentile £475 £446 £452
25th Percentile £505 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +4.26%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £738
90th Percentile £688 £816 £746
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Reverse Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reverse Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reverse Engineering.

Reverse Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Reverse Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (23.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) CICS
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.88%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
1 4 (23.53%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
1 4 (23.53%) tcpdump
1 4 (23.53%) Wireshark
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Apache Hive
1 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
1 4 (23.53%) Tableau
2 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.88%) DB2
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) ER Studio
2 2 (11.76%) ERwin
3 1 (5.88%) RStudio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Billing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
3 1 (5.88%) C Developer
3 1 (5.88%) C/C++ Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Incident Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Mainframe Developer
3 1 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) OLE
2 1 (5.88%) Django
2 1 (5.88%) ISPF
2 1 (5.88%) Sphinx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (23.53%) YARA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) Rocky
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
1 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
2 5 (29.41%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (29.41%) SIEM
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
3 4 (23.53%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (23.53%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Security Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Use Case
3 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (17.65%) CRM
4 3 (17.65%) ETL
4 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) C
2 1 (5.88%) C++
2 1 (5.88%) COBOL
2 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.88%) ProC
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CCNA
2 1 (5.88%) CCSP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) GDPR
2 4 (23.53%) NIST
3 3 (17.65%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Snort
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
1 4 (23.53%) Splunk
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) IDERA
3 2 (11.76%) Informatica
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) OpenText
4 1 (5.88%) SAP