GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GXPN qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 705 830
Rank change year-on-year +119 +125 -
Contract jobs citing GXPN 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.002% 0.001%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.008% 0.006% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £600
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GXPN 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 12,895 15,649 18,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.22% 27.15% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,970 10,439 12,534
10th Percentile £305 £330 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 799 780
10th Percentile £13.79 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.36 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.57
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +23.94% +14.66%
75th Percentile £61.40 £67.88 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.65 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% -

GXPN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GXPN in the UK

GXPN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GXPN in the UK

GXPN
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 GXPN within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +114 1 £400 -
London +84 1 £400 -

GXPN
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%) CCFP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) EC-Council LPT
1 1 (100.00%) ECIH
1 1 (100.00%) ECSA
1 1 (100.00%) GAWN
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCFE
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GPPA
1 1 (100.00%) GREM
1 1 (100.00%) GSNA
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco