GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GREM qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 702 853
Rank change year-on-year +127 +151 -178
Contract jobs citing GREM 7 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.017% 0.002%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.052% 0.061% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £420 £500 -
25th Percentile £450 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +1.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £488 £586 £588
90th Percentile £495 £607 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £586 £575
% change year-on-year - +1.83% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GREM is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,404 16,464 19,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 27.36% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,271 10,983 12,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £740 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,062 871 784
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.25 £13.44
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.20
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £40.93
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +31.94% +6.31%
75th Percentile £61.30 £68.56 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.22 £79.75 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £50.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.50% +61.29% -10.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GREM in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GREM in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GREM within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +122 7 £475 -18.80% 1
London +107 7 £475 -13.64%

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) tcpdump
1 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Analyst
1 6 (85.71%) Security Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 6 (85.71%) Threat Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Threat Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Cyber Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) Malware Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 1 (14.29%) SIEM
5 1 (14.29%) Threat Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CISSP
1 7 (100.00%) OSCP
2 6 (85.71%) GSEC
3 1 (14.29%) CCFP
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
3 1 (14.29%) CHFI
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) ECIH
3 1 (14.29%) EnCE
3 1 (14.29%) GCED
3 1 (14.29%) GCFA
3 1 (14.29%) GCIA
3 1 (14.29%) GCIH
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) GPEN
3 1 (14.29%) GSNA
3 1 (14.29%) GWAPT
3 1 (14.29%) OSCE
3 1 (14.29%) OSWP
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (14.29%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cybereason
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Intel