GCFA Contracts in Central London

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCFA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.049% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £630 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 - -
75th Percentile £690 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £338 £400 £800
% change year-on-year -15.63% -50.00% +77.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

GCFA 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 507 520 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.76% 22.48% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 324 455
10th Percentile £328 £374 £321
25th Percentile £456 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £756 £775 £817
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 4
10th Percentile £25.11 £20.22 £17.03
25th Percentile £26.13 £20.29 £17.65
Median hourly rate £31.78 £24.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -31.91% -24.79%
75th Percentile £55.06 £27.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £65.39 £35.38 £74.75
London median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -50.91% +46.67%

GCFA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GCFA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in Central London

GCFA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCFA in Central London.

Daily rate trend for GCFA in Central London

GCFA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCFA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
City of London - 1 £660 -
GCFA
London

GCFA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) STIX
1 1 (100.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft