GCED Contracts in England

GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GCED qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCED 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.026% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GCED 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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,621 13,989 15,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.25% 27.73% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,132 9,365 10,060
10th Percentile £305 £330 £317
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 985 748 695
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.15 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.13 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.25 £55.92
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.81
% change year-on-year -25.93% +29.16% +8.01%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GCED as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCED in England

GCED
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCED in England

GCED
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCED in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCED in England

GCED
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCED within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
Midlands - 2 £600 -
West Midlands - 2 £600 -
London - 1 £400 -
GCED
UK

GCED
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (66.67%) Taxonomies
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
2 2 (66.67%) BC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CASP
2 2 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (66.67%) GSEC
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) EC-Council LPT
3 1 (33.33%) ECIH
3 1 (33.33%) ECSA
3 1 (33.33%) GAWN
3 1 (33.33%) GCFE
3 1 (33.33%) GPEN
3 1 (33.33%) GPPA
3 1 (33.33%) GWAPT
3 1 (33.33%) GXPN
3 1 (33.33%) OSCE
3 1 (33.33%) OSCP
3 1 (33.33%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (33.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) LogRhythm
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) TippingPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Trend Micro
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco