Malware Reverse Engineering Job Trends

Malware Reverse Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Malware Reverse Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 666 743 745
Rank change year-on-year +77 +2 +387
Permanent jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering 4 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.004% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.005% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62,375
25th Percentile £77,500 £53,750 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £74,063
90th Percentile - - £76,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Malware 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,532 56,144 51,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.04% 82.52% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 25,261 29,733 39,530
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +2.86% -

Malware Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Malware Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK

Malware Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Malware Reverse Engineering

Malware Reverse Engineering
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +89 3 £80,000 +39.13% 4
Work from Home +64 3 £80,000 +39.13% 4
UK excluding London - 3 £80,000 - 4
London +50 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £80,000 - 1
Scotland - 1 £80,000 - 1
East of England - 1 £80,000 - 1

Malware Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Law
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Hunter
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Incident Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 3 (75.00%) Offensive Security
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CEH
1 3 (75.00%) GIAC
1 3 (75.00%) GREM
1 3 (75.00%) OSCP
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GCIA
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 3 (75.00%) QRadar
2 1 (25.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk