Reverse Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 725 639
Rank change year-on-year +189 -86 +115
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 35 40 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.054% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.066% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 21 31 63
10th Percentile £46,250 £28,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £31,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -20.69% -12.12%
75th Percentile £63,500 £64,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.45% -9.38%

All Process and 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK excluding London

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Midlands +65 12 £48,500 -22.40% 133
East of England +50 12 £62,000 -0.80% 110
East Midlands +46 10 £48,500 +2.11% 50
South East +86 8 - - 158
Scotland +125 2 £67,000 - 38
West Midlands +62 2 £47,500 -24.00% 75
North of England +23 1 - - 151
North West -8 1 - - 74
Reverse Engineering
UK

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (40.00%) HTTP
1 14 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 10 (28.57%) Firewall
2 10 (28.57%) FTP
2 10 (28.57%) LAN
2 10 (28.57%) SMTP
2 10 (28.57%) VPN
2 10 (28.57%) WAN
3 9 (25.71%) Internet
4 6 (17.14%) Network Security
5 4 (11.43%) HTTPS
6 3 (8.57%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.86%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 10 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 10 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (22.86%) Data Lake
3 6 (17.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (11.43%) Metadata
4 4 (11.43%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (8.57%) MySQL
6 2 (5.71%) Pentaho
6 2 (5.71%) Scylla
6 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
6 2 (5.71%) Triplestore
7 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) IDA Disassembler
2 2 (5.71%) Fiddler
3 1 (2.86%) GDB
3 1 (2.86%) WinDbg
General
1 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 8 (22.86%) Law
4 4 (11.43%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) DBA
2 8 (22.86%) Administrator
2 8 (22.86%) SQL DBA
3 7 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (14.29%) Senior
5 4 (11.43%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Security Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) LDAP
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Jena
2 2 (5.71%) PySpark
2 2 (5.71%) XML
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.86%) libvirt
3 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.86%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Data Structures
2 10 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 10 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (8.57%) MISP
6 2 (5.71%) e-Learning
6 2 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.86%) Clustering
7 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.86%) N-Tier
7 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Android
1 5 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Analytics
1 10 (28.57%) Data Analysis
1 10 (28.57%) ETL
1 10 (28.57%) Malware Analysis
1 10 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 10 (28.57%) Security Operations
1 10 (28.57%) SIEM
2 8 (22.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (20.00%) Blue Team
3 7 (20.00%) People Management
3 7 (20.00%) Use Case
4 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
4 6 (17.14%) Cryptography
4 6 (17.14%) Line Management
4 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
5 5 (14.29%) Agile
5 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Application Security
6 4 (11.43%) Key Management
6 4 (11.43%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) C++
2 15 (42.86%) SQL
3 13 (37.14%) Python
4 10 (28.57%) T-SQL
5 9 (25.71%) C
6 7 (20.00%) Bash
6 7 (20.00%) Java
6 7 (20.00%) Perl
6 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (14.29%) Objective-C
8 4 (11.43%) Kotlin
9 3 (8.57%) C#
10 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
10 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
10 2 (5.71%) SPARQL
11 1 (2.86%) CodeQL
11 1 (2.86%) PHP
11 1 (2.86%) VB
11 1 (2.86%) XAML
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) DV Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) Degree
5 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.86%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.86%) GCIA
6 1 (2.86%) GCIH
6 1 (2.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Dublin Core
2 2 (5.71%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Informatica
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Talend
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce