Reverse Engineering Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 524 515
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 +172
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 29 34 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.094% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 27 19 24
10th Percentile £37,750 £43,250 £49,340
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,221 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -27.27% +25.34%
75th Percentile £71,000 £62,151 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,650 £64,000 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -28.00% +18.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,410 32,047 30,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.40% 89.07% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19,288 14,407 22,672
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Reverse Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Midlands +29 17 £47,500 -2.56% 11
West Midlands +26 10 £38,750 - 2
South West +5 9 £80,000 +60.00% 13
East Midlands -10 7 £48,500 -0.51% 8
East of England +18 2 £86,250 +39.11% 16
Scotland - 1 £80,000 - 2
Reverse Engineering
UK

Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (27.59%) AutoCAD
1 8 (27.59%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Wireshark
2 2 (6.90%) 2G
2 2 (6.90%) 4G
2 2 (6.90%) 5G
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) HTTP
2 2 (6.90%) ICMP
2 2 (6.90%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (20.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) IDA Disassembler
2 3 (10.34%) Burp Suite
2 3 (10.34%) Metasploit
General
1 15 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Law
4 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Support Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) Technical Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) Technical Support
1 8 (27.59%) Technical Support Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) DBA
3 6 (20.69%) SQL DBA
4 4 (13.79%) Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Penetration Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Threat Hunter
6 2 (6.90%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Researcher
7 1 (3.45%) Head of Delivery
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Data Structures
2 4 (13.79%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (10.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.90%) Arduino
4 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.90%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.90%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.45%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Mac OS
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (27.59%) CAD
3 7 (24.14%) Analytics
4 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (20.69%) ETL
4 6 (20.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (17.24%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (17.24%) Prototyping
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Data Strategy
6 4 (13.79%) Embedded Software Development
6 4 (13.79%) Red Team
6 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
6 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Research
7 3 (10.34%) Ethical Hacking
7 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
7 3 (10.34%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 3 (10.34%) Offensive Security
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) T-SQL
3 5 (17.24%) C
3 5 (17.24%) C++
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) CEH
4 3 (10.34%) CREST Certified
4 3 (10.34%) GIAC
4 3 (10.34%) GREM
4 3 (10.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 3 (10.34%) Nmap
1 3 (10.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (10.34%) Splunk