GCFA Jobs in the Midlands

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 316 352
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 -58
Permanent jobs citing GCFA 2 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.017% 0.063% 0.028%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.070% 0.16% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £107,500 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% - -
75th Percentile £122,500 £72,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £40,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +56.25% -52.94% +61.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,871 3,805 3,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.59% 39.84% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,852 1,277 1,671
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,040
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,193 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.49% +5.81% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCFA in the Midlands.

Salary trend for GCFA in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCFA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +19 2 £115,000 +64.29%
GCFA
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCFE
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GREM
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CSIRT