Reverse Engineering Job Trends in the City of London

Reverse Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 159 165
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 +86
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 2 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.093% 0.19% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.20% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.06%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Reverse Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,877 2,547 2,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.22% 95.50% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 1,642 2,405
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Reverse Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reverse Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Endur Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLink Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLink
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP