GCIH Contracts in the City of London

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
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 GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 121 160
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 +42
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GCIH 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.054% 0.097% 0.062%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £630 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £450 £820
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -45.12% -
75th Percentile £690 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £660 £450 £820
% change year-on-year +46.67% -45.12% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

GCIH 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 448 491 645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.31% 23.85% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 313 384
10th Percentile £333 £400 £342
25th Percentile £456 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £670 £694
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +33.33% -64.36%
75th Percentile £64.66 £27.00 £50.88
90th Percentile £79.34 - £70.60
Central London median hourly rate £31.78 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% +50.00% -64.36%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in the City of London

GCIH
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCIH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCIH

GCIH
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%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft