Reverse Engineering Jobs

Reverse Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 663 815 803
Rank change year-on-year +152 -12 +80
Permanent jobs citing Reverse Engineering 48 95 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.093% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 26 81 94
10th Percentile £46,500 £31,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £64,625 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,375 £101,250 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.65% -20.69% -12.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Top 12 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 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
England +115 45 £52,500 -30.00% 671
UK excluding London +189 35 £48,500 -15.65% 669
Work from Home +117 19 £48,500 -22.40% 355
Midlands +65 12 £48,500 -22.40% 133
East of England +50 12 £62,000 -0.80% 112
East Midlands +46 10 £48,500 +2.11% 50
South East +86 8 - - 158
London +78 8 £90,000 +20.00% 84
Scotland +125 2 £67,000 - 40
West Midlands +62 2 £47,500 -24.00% 75
North of England +23 1 - - 150
North West -8 1 - - 74

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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (12.50%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.33%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.25%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.17%) HTTP
1 14 (29.17%) TCP/IP
2 11 (22.92%) Firewall
3 10 (20.83%) FTP
3 10 (20.83%) LAN
3 10 (20.83%) SMTP
3 10 (20.83%) VPN
3 10 (20.83%) WAN
4 9 (18.75%) Internet
5 7 (14.58%) Network Security
6 4 (8.33%) HTTPS
7 3 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.08%) tcpdump
8 1 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) Azure SQL Database
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (20.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (20.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 5 (10.42%) Metadata
5 5 (10.42%) Metadata Repository
6 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 4 (8.33%) Spark SQL
7 3 (6.25%) MySQL
8 2 (4.17%) Pentaho
8 2 (4.17%) Scylla
8 2 (4.17%) Triplestore
9 1 (2.08%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.08%) Power BI
9 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) IDA Disassembler
2 3 (6.25%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.17%) Fiddler
4 1 (2.08%) GDB
4 1 (2.08%) WinDbg
General
1 15 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Law
4 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) DBA
2 8 (16.67%) Administrator
2 8 (16.67%) Senior
2 8 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 7 (14.58%) Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Lead
3 7 (14.58%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Architect
4 4 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) LDAP
2 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (8.33%) PySpark
2 4 (8.33%) React
2 4 (8.33%) Vue
3 3 (6.25%) COM
3 3 (6.25%) pytest
3 3 (6.25%) RESTful
4 2 (4.17%) .NET
4 2 (4.17%) Apache Jena
4 2 (4.17%) Django
4 2 (4.17%) Flask
4 2 (4.17%) NumPy
4 2 (4.17%) Pandas
4 2 (4.17%) XML
5 1 (2.08%) ATL
5 1 (2.08%) libvirt
5 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.08%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 10 (20.83%) Client/Server
2 10 (20.83%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (10.42%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.33%) Low-Code
4 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 3 (6.25%) MISP
6 2 (4.17%) e-Learning
6 2 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.08%) Clustering
7 1 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Android
1 5 (10.42%) Apple iOS
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Analytics
1 11 (22.92%) Data Analysis
1 11 (22.92%) ETL
1 11 (22.92%) Security Operations
1 11 (22.92%) SIEM
2 10 (20.83%) Agile
2 10 (20.83%) Malware Analysis
2 10 (20.83%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
3 9 (18.75%) Use Case
4 8 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (14.58%) Blue Team
5 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
5 7 (14.58%) Data Governance
5 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
5 7 (14.58%) Line Management
5 7 (14.58%) People Management
6 6 (12.50%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 25 (52.08%) SQL
2 19 (39.58%) C++
2 19 (39.58%) Python
3 10 (20.83%) T-SQL
4 9 (18.75%) C
4 9 (18.75%) Java
5 7 (14.58%) Bash
5 7 (14.58%) Perl
5 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
6 6 (12.50%) C#
7 5 (10.42%) Objective-C
8 4 (8.33%) Kotlin
9 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.17%) SPARQL
10 1 (2.08%) CodeQL
10 1 (2.08%) PHP
10 1 (2.08%) VB
10 1 (2.08%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) DV Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (16.67%) Degree
5 5 (10.42%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) CASP
6 1 (2.08%) CISM
6 1 (2.08%) CISSP
6 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.08%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.08%) GCIA
6 1 (2.08%) GCIH
6 1 (2.08%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) Dublin Core
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) QRadar
2 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) Splunk
3 4 (8.33%) Databricks
3 4 (8.33%) Google
4 2 (4.17%) Informatica
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Talend
5 1 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.08%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.08%) McAfee
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce