GCFA Contracts in the City of London

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCFA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.054% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £630 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 - -
75th Percentile £690 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £660 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 457 478 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.46% 23.07% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 300 389
10th Percentile £346 £400 £346
25th Percentile £460 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £761 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £22.28 - £17.03
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.22 £17.65
Median hourly rate £28.15 £21.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.05% -40.43% -24.79%
75th Percentile £64.66 £27.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £79.34 - £74.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.78 £24.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year +32.40% -31.91% -24.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCFA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GCFA in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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