Reverse Engineering Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Reverse Engineering
South West > Gloucestershire

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 7 0 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.30% - 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% - 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £77,500 - -
25th Percentile £79,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - -
75th Percentile £94,375 - -
90th Percentile £95,500 - -
South West median annual salary £86,750 £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +73.50% -33.33% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 446 802 823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 82.90% 85.59% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 313 379 473
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Reverse Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 3 £87,500 - 3
Reverse Engineering
South West

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) ICMP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Aerospace
2 4 (57.14%) Automotive
2 4 (57.14%) Electronics
2 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DSP Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Process Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
1 4 (57.14%) FPGA
1 4 (57.14%) Verilog
1 4 (57.14%) VHDL
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (14.29%) Arduino
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Thinking
1 4 (57.14%) Creative Thinking
1 4 (57.14%) Digital Signal Processing
1 4 (57.14%) Signal Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Prototyping
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Research
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Business Development
4 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
1 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared