Reverse Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Reverse Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Reverse Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 430 533
Rank change year-on-year +100 +103 -113
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 15 35 93
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 78
10th Percentile £459 £450 £459
25th Percentile £505 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -2.08% +3.23%
75th Percentile £550 £678 £738
90th Percentile £688 £778 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,834 21,730 40,136
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.66% 89.60% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,652 15,403 29,146
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 505 522
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.90 £14.03
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Reverse Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reverse Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reverse Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reverse Engineering.

Reverse Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Reverse Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Reverse Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CICS
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
1 4 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (26.67%) tcpdump
1 4 (26.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Hive
1 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
1 4 (26.67%) Tableau
2 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (6.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) IDA Disassembler
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) ER Studio
2 2 (13.33%) ERwin
3 1 (6.67%) RStudio
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) C/C++ Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C++ Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Incident Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) OLE
2 1 (6.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (26.67%) YARA
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) CentOS
4 1 (6.67%) Rocky
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (33.33%) SIEM
3 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
3 4 (26.67%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (26.67%) Malware Reverse Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
3 4 (26.67%) Use Case
3 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) CRM
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) C
2 1 (6.67%) C++
2 1 (6.67%) COBOL
2 1 (6.67%) ProC
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) CCSP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
1 4 (26.67%) NIST
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Snort
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) IDERA
3 2 (13.33%) Informatica
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) OpenText
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) SAP