Reverse Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Reverse Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 295 328 440
Rank change year-on-year +33 +112 +102
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 9 17 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 30
10th Percentile £363 £475 £446
25th Percentile £400 £505 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £651 £688 £816
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Reverse Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reverse Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP ERP
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
2 1 (11.11%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
1 3 (33.33%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Report Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cyberattack
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Case Management
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata Management
3 2 (22.22%) Red Team
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CREST Certified
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Scheme
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) GPEN
2 1 (11.11%) GWAPT
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) OCA
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (11.11%) OSCE
2 1 (11.11%) OSCP
2 1 (11.11%) RHCA
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Liquidlogic
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) VMware