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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 337 412
Rank change year-on-year +28 +75 +142
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 8 13 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.089% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.10% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 28
10th Percentile £385 £410 £450
25th Percentile £431 £490 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £651 £688 £778
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%

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 9,345 12,722 21,755
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.31% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,327 8,557 15,344
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 554 526
10th Percentile £12.73 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.26 £25.96
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -18.10% +28.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
% change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%

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 7 July 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Spotfire
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (12.50%) Power Query
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Report Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) MISP
1 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) IronPython
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) GCIH
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) OCA
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (12.50%) RHCA
2 1 (12.50%) RHCE
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) QRadar
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) Liquidlogic
2 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) VirusTotal
2 1 (12.50%) VMware