GCFE Contracts in England

GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GCFE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 665 772
Rank change year-on-year +125 +107 -162
Contract jobs citing GCFE 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.003% 0.006% 0.001%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.009% 0.021% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £475 -
25th Percentile - £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £575 £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +5.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GCFE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,687 14,155 15,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.38% 27.57% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,201 9,465 10,181
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +8.02%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 773 697
10th Percentile £13.99 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +38.89% -7.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.09 £80.20 £65.52
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.16% -0.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GCFE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCFE in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCFE in England.

Daily rate trend for GCFE in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCFE within the England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +111 1 £400 -15.79%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CHFI
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) EnCE
1 1 (100.00%) GCED
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) GSNA
1 1 (100.00%) GWAPT
1 1 (100.00%) OSCE
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) OSWP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco