GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 696 857
Rank change year-on-year +123 +161 -169
Contract jobs citing GCIA 5 20 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.034% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.038% 0.12% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 4
10th Percentile £408 £456 £536
25th Percentile £419 £538 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £813 £647 £597
90th Percentile £880 £748 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GCIA 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 13,248 16,120 19,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 10,751 12,592
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £627
90th Percentile £745 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.19% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 840 769
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.75
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.17 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.43%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.33 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year -17.91% +53.49% -5.92%

GCIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCIA over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
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 GCIA within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +113 5 £438 -32.43% 5
England +97 5 £438 -30.00% 10

GCIA
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:

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%) GCIH
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%) CCFP
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%) GCFE
5 1 (20.00%) GPPA
5 1 (20.00%) GREM
5 1 (20.00%) GXPN
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