GCED Contracts in Berkshire

GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for GCED qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCED 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.089% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
South East median daily rate £750 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

GCED falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 405 859 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.94% 44.60% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 402 308
10th Percentile £313 £213 £350
25th Percentile £425 £443 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +4.00% +12.24%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £632
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £523 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 91 43
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £55.31 £53.95 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -6.67% +213.91%
75th Percentile £85.29 £85.65 £75.71
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.53 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.46% -4.42% +33.33%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCED in Berkshire

GCED
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCED within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2025. 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
Slough - 1 £750 -
GCED
South East

GCED
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk