GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GREM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 867 962
Rank change year-on-year +188 +95 +242
Permanent jobs citing GREM 5 18 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.018% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.020% 0.066% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 25
10th Percentile £86,750 £63,625 -
25th Percentile £93,125 £70,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £88,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% +153.57% -65.00%
75th Percentile £111,250 £108,438 £40,000
90th Percentile - £116,875 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £88,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year - +153.57% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GREM falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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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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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GREM.

Salary trend for GREM in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GREM over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for GREM in the UK

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Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GREM within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +190 5 £107,500 +21.13% 4
London - 3 £107,500 - 3
UK excluding London +191 2 - - 1
South East - 2 - -

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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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Information Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) IT Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Internal Audit
3 3 (60.00%) Time Management
4 2 (40.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Case Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Forensics
4 2 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (40.00%) Information Management
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) Security Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) GCED
2 3 (60.00%) GCIA
2 3 (60.00%) GCIH
2 3 (60.00%) GIAC
2 3 (60.00%) GSEC
2 3 (60.00%) SANS
3 2 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CCFP
3 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) CCSK
3 2 (40.00%) CCSP
3 2 (40.00%) CISA
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) EnCE
3 2 (40.00%) FFIEC
3 2 (40.00%) GCFA
3 2 (40.00%) GCFE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) EnCase
1 2 (40.00%) FTK
1 2 (40.00%) RSA Security Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) FireEye
2 2 (40.00%) NetWitness
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) VMware