Reverse Engineering Contracts

Reverse Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Reverse Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reverse Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 594 697
Rank change year-on-year +69 +103 -119
Contract jobs citing Reverse Engineering 59 103 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 71 109
10th Percentile £398 £450 £450
25th Percentile £413 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £738
90th Percentile £702 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.25
Median hourly rate £21.73 - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £31.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.73 - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reverse Engineering over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Reverse Engineering in the UK

Reverse Engineering
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reverse Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +41 48 £550 - 36
UK excluding London +15 34 £550 - 25
Work from Home +98 17 £530 -7.83% 13
London +50 14 £610 +1.67% 14
Midlands +28 12 £438 +2.94% 3
West Midlands +28 11 £438 +2.94% 1
South East +14 9 £425 -37.04% 6
South West -10 8 £675 +22.73% 7
Scotland +51 3 £550 +4.76% 1
North of England +9 2 - - 6
East of England +1 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 4 (6.78%) CICS
1 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.69%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.69%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.17%) AWS
2 3 (5.08%) Azure
3 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.42%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.78%) tcpdump
2 4 (6.78%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.69%) AMQP
3 1 (1.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (15.25%) Metadata
2 9 (15.25%) Metadata Repository
3 6 (10.17%) Apache Hive
3 6 (10.17%) Star Schema
4 5 (8.47%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.78%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.78%) DB2
5 4 (6.78%) Tableau
6 2 (3.39%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.69%) Adabas
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.69%) Big Data
7 1 (1.69%) Impala
7 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.69%) Power BI
7 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.69%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.69%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) ERwin
2 4 (6.78%) IDA Disassembler
2 4 (6.78%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.69%) CA Gen
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.69%) RStudio
General
1 15 (25.42%) Public Sector
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Legal
4 5 (8.47%) Billing
4 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Finance
6 2 (3.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Back Office
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Police
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Analyst
2 14 (23.73%) Architect
3 13 (22.03%) Data Architect
4 11 (18.64%) SOC Analyst
5 9 (15.25%) Developer
6 6 (10.17%) Data Analyst
7 5 (8.47%) C Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Mainframe Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior
9 3 (5.08%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
9 3 (5.08%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Lead
10 2 (3.39%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Security Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Backend Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) ISPF
1 4 (6.78%) OLE
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.69%) Kafka
2 1 (1.69%) Middleware
2 1 (1.69%) XML
2 1 (1.69%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Mainframe
1 4 (6.78%) YARA
2 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.69%) AS400
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.69%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (37.29%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Mac OS X
3 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (11.86%) Windows
4 6 (10.17%) Unix
5 4 (6.78%) zOS
6 2 (3.39%) CentOS
6 2 (3.39%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) Data Modelling
2 19 (32.20%) Migration
3 16 (27.12%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (25.42%) Data Governance
4 15 (25.42%) Data Migration
4 15 (25.42%) SIEM
5 14 (23.73%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (23.73%) Malware Reverse Engineering
5 14 (23.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 14 (23.73%) Vulnerability Management
6 13 (22.03%) Incident Management
7 12 (20.34%) Data Architecture
8 11 (18.64%) Data Analysis
9 10 (16.95%) Computer Forensics
9 10 (16.95%) Data Management
9 10 (16.95%) ETL
9 10 (16.95%) Purple Team
9 10 (16.95%) Risk Management
9 10 (16.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (16.95%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) SQL
2 5 (8.47%) C
2 5 (8.47%) PL/SQL
2 5 (8.47%) ProC
2 5 (8.47%) Shell Script
3 4 (6.78%) COBOL
4 2 (3.39%) Python
5 1 (1.69%) C++
5 1 (1.69%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) JCL
5 1 (1.69%) Natural
5 1 (1.69%) R
5 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (40.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) CCNA
4 1 (1.69%) CCSP
4 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.42%) GDPR
2 14 (23.73%) NIST
3 11 (18.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (16.95%) HIPAA
4 10 (16.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (10.17%) Data Quality
6 3 (5.08%) QA
7 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Snort
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Docker
3 1 (1.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) CA Endevor
1 4 (6.78%) Kibana
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Remedy
2 7 (11.86%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) Databricks
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Sparx
4 4 (6.78%) Google
4 4 (6.78%) IBM
4 4 (6.78%) Splunk
5 2 (3.39%) Citrix
5 2 (3.39%) IDERA
5 2 (3.39%) Informatica
6 1 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.69%) CA
6 1 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.69%) F5
6 1 (1.69%) Imperva
6 1 (1.69%) OpenText
6 1 (1.69%) SAP