GCIH Contracts in England

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 646 784
Rank change year-on-year +110 +138 -185
Contract jobs citing GCIH 5 15 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.030% 0.021%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.043% 0.11% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 12
10th Percentile £408 £463 £453
25th Percentile £419 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £813 £675 £597
90th Percentile £880 £820 £636
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -20.45% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GCIH 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 11,511 13,832 15,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.22% 27.69% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,094 9,256 10,129
10th Percentile £310 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
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% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 739 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £18.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +3.39%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.41 £56.00
90th Percentile £76.64 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in England

GCIH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCIH in England

GCIH
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCIH in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCIH in England

GCIH
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 GCIH within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
London +112 5 £438 -32.43% 9
GCIH
UK

GCIH
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) FTP
3 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (20.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) Information Security
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance
4 2 (40.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (20.00%) Information Management
5 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) GCIA
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) GIAC
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (60.00%) CISSP
4 2 (40.00%) CCNP
4 2 (40.00%) CEH
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (20.00%) CCSK
5 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (20.00%) ECIH
5 1 (20.00%) ECSA
5 1 (20.00%) GAWN
5 1 (20.00%) GCED
5 1 (20.00%) GPEN
5 1 (20.00%) GREM
5 1 (20.00%) GWAPT
5 1 (20.00%) OSCP
5 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) CSIRT
2 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) QRadar
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (40.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft