Hybrid/Remote Malware Reverse Engineering Job Trends

Malware Reverse Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work 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 410 474 490
Rank change year-on-year +64 +16 +310
Permanent jobs citing Malware Reverse Engineering 3 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.019% 0.015% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.017% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 £53,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +39.13% -16.36% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,130 17,611 21,426
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.45% 88.17% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,483 10,548 17,364
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,000 £37,027
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Malware Reverse Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Malware Reverse Engineering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Malware Reverse Engineering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Malware Reverse Engineering
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Malware Reverse Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Malware Reverse Engineering

Malware Reverse Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Hunter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 3 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CEH
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
1 3 (100.00%) GREM
1 3 (100.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 3 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk