Reverse Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 813 834 883
Rank change year-on-year +21 +49 -113
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 98 165 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 76 98 198
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,875 £40,925
25th Percentile £60,625 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,313 £76,875 £89,688
90th Percentile £101,250 £81,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +15.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reverse Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reverse Engineering.

Salary trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +26 84 £75,000 +7.14% 33
London +129 49 £75,000 +14.18% 8
UK excluding London -81 44 £55,000 -21.43% 25
Work from Home +17 29 £65,000 -10.34% 8
North of England +26 18 £58,750 -18.97% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £28,000 -
South East 0 9 £61,250 -18.33% 5
North West -5 9 £62,500 -13.79% 3
Scotland - 9 - - 2
Midlands +8 6 £62,500 -10.71% 9
South West -56 6 £73,750 -1.67% 3
East of England +21 5 £62,500 +4.17% 3
West Midlands +8 4 £62,500 -9.09% 3
North East -2 3 £62,500 -12.28%
East Midlands -12 2 £47,500 - 6

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.43%) AWS
1 21 (21.43%) Azure
1 21 (21.43%) GCP
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.16%) SaaS
5 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (31.63%) Network Security
2 20 (20.41%) Firewall
3 18 (18.37%) DNS
4 3 (3.06%) BGP
4 3 (3.06%) DMZ
4 3 (3.06%) Internet
4 3 (3.06%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (3.06%) IPsec
4 3 (3.06%) MPLS
4 3 (3.06%) OSPF
4 3 (3.06%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.06%) SSL
4 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.06%) VPN
4 3 (3.06%) Wireless
4 3 (3.06%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) Power BI
2 3 (3.06%) Metadata
3 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.02%) SAS EBI
4 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (31.63%) Burp Suite
1 31 (31.63%) Metasploit
2 18 (18.37%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.08%) Git
4 3 (3.06%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.02%) JIRA
6 1 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 41 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.63%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Finance
4 7 (7.14%) Law
5 6 (6.12%) Banking
5 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Retail
7 3 (3.06%) Automotive
7 3 (3.06%) Electronics
7 3 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Games
9 1 (1.02%) Local Government
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (36.73%) Penetration Tester
1 36 (36.73%) Tester
2 16 (16.33%) Senior
3 14 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Principal Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Principal Software Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Windows Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Test Technician
8 6 (6.12%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
8 6 (6.12%) Vulnerability Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Security Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Security Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.14%) .NET
2 5 (5.10%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.08%) .NET Core
3 4 (4.08%) REST
4 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.06%) CSS
4 3 (3.06%) HTML
4 3 (3.06%) Web Services
5 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.04%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.04%) HTML5 Boilerplate
5 2 (2.04%) LINQ
5 2 (2.04%) LINQ to SQL
5 2 (2.04%) Node.js
5 2 (2.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (1.02%) Ajax
6 1 (1.02%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (1.02%) MERN Stack
6 1 (1.02%) POSIX
6 1 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) PKI
2 9 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) Virtual Team
3 7 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.10%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.04%) CCTV
7 2 (2.04%) CPLD
7 2 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.04%) FPGA
8 1 (1.02%) Clustering
8 1 (1.02%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.02%) IoT
8 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 45 (45.92%) Linux
2 34 (34.69%) Windows
3 31 (31.63%) Kali Linux
4 9 (9.18%) Android
4 9 (9.18%) Apple iOS
4 9 (9.18%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.08%) Unix
6 2 (2.04%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.02%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (70.41%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (50.00%) Information Security
3 41 (41.84%) Penetration Testing
4 36 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (34.69%) Application Security
5 34 (34.69%) Computer Science
6 33 (33.67%) Malware Analysis
6 33 (33.67%) Security Testing
7 32 (32.65%) Red Team
8 29 (29.59%) Critical Thinking
9 28 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 20 (20.41%) Threat Modelling
11 18 (18.37%) Data Modelling
12 17 (17.35%) Agile
13 16 (16.33%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
15 14 (14.29%) Cryptography
15 14 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 14 (14.29%) Test Automation
15 14 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.53%) Python
2 11 (11.22%) C#
3 9 (9.18%) Java
4 7 (7.14%) SQL
5 5 (5.10%) Bash
5 5 (5.10%) Go
5 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.08%) C
6 4 (4.08%) C++
7 3 (3.06%) Perl
7 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) PHP
9 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.02%) ProC
9 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (51.02%) Degree
2 31 (31.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (16.33%) CISSP
3 16 (16.33%) GIAC
4 15 (15.31%) CISM
4 15 (15.31%) CRISC
4 15 (15.31%) ISSMP
5 9 (9.18%) OSCP
5 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
6 8 (8.16%) CREST Certified
7 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
8 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.06%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (2.04%) GCFA
10 2 (2.04%) GCIH
10 2 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.02%) GCIA
11 1 (1.02%) GREM
11 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.31%) COBIT
2 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
3 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (16.33%) Ansible
2 9 (9.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.06%) Nmap
4 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.31%) Alibaba
3 12 (12.24%) Google
4 9 (9.18%) Dell
5 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.04%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.04%) McAfee
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle