GCFA Contracts in London

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 494 600
Rank change year-on-year +102 +106 -150
Contract jobs citing GCFA 2 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.011% 0.026% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.047% 0.12% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £406 £433
25th Percentile - £535 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +39.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile - £850 £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -31.91% +2.17% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

GCFA 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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,821 6,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.53% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,924 4,558
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £574 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +4.32% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 80 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.94 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.54% +1.69% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.55 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.66% +39.73% -3.75%

GCFA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GCFA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in London

GCFA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCFA in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CCFP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CHFI
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ECIH
2 1 (50.00%) ECSA
2 1 (50.00%) EnCE
2 1 (50.00%) GAWN
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) GREM
2 1 (50.00%) GSNA
2 1 (50.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (50.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco