GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GCED qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 900 966 1226
Rank change year-on-year +66 +260 -
Permanent jobs citing GCED 2 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.006% 0.002%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.007% 0.018% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile - £45,000 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £59,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £105,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.48% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £110,313 -
90th Percentile - £111,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £50,000 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GCED 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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,444 33,124 42,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.69% 32.69% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 14,907 18,785
10th Percentile £28,374 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCED in the UK

GCED
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCED.

Salary trend for GCED in the UK

GCED
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCED within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +103 2 £62,500 -41.18%
England +97 2 £62,500 -41.18%
Work from Home +72 2 £62,500 -40.48%

GCED
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (100.00%) GCFA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIA
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 31000
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk