GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GSNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 699 857
Rank change year-on-year +121 +158 -
Contract jobs citing GSNA 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.007% 0.006% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £460 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £195
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +141.03% -
75th Percentile - £480 £218
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £195

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GSNA 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 13,357 16,381 19,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.67% 27.32% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,219 10,918 12,540
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,073 866 779
10th Percentile £13.87 £15.25 £13.48
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.00 £19.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +7.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.56 £56.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.88 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.63 £49.94 £32.43
% change year-on-year -18.65% +53.97% -7.34%

GSNA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GSNA in the UK

GSNA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GSNA in the UK

GSNA
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 GSNA within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
London - 1 £400 -
England - 1 £400 -

GSNA
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CHFI
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) EnCE
1 1 (100.00%) GCED
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) GWAPT
1 1 (100.00%) OSCE
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) OSWP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco