Reverse Engineering Job Trends in the South West

Reverse Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 210 195
Rank change year-on-year +47 -15 +110
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 6 4 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.062% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.082% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £77,500 - £53,500
25th Percentile £79,375 £47,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £50,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £94,375 £60,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £75,250 -
England median annual salary £48,500 £60,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.16% -13.21% +8.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,930 4,901 4,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.25% 76.33% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,862 2,766 3,340
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.41% +0.42%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Reverse Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Gloucestershire - 6 £87,500 - 1
Reverse Engineering
England

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (66.67%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) ICMP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 4 (66.67%) Automotive
2 4 (66.67%) Electronics
2 4 (66.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DSP Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Process Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (66.67%) FPGA
1 4 (66.67%) Verilog
1 4 (66.67%) VHDL
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (16.67%) Arduino
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
1 4 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Signal Processing
1 4 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C
1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared