Reverse Engineering Job Trends in Edinburgh

Reverse Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.13% - 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile £82,500 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £77,000 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +105.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 733 1,103 971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.09% 88.74% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 308 463 787
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,606 £46,306 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,941 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.13% -1.77% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Reverse Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk