GIAC Contracts in England

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 577 720
Rank change year-on-year +123 +143 -143
Contract jobs citing GIAC 81 86 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.17% 0.083%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 51 31
10th Percentile £400 £531 £475
25th Percentile £434 £618 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £763
90th Percentile £773 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GIAC 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 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GIAC in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GIAC in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIAC in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIAC in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIAC in England.

Hourly rate trend for GIAC 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 GIAC within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +42 39 - - 5
London +74 28 £450 -40.00% 5
North of England +22 7 £650 +11.02% 5
Yorkshire +23 4 £650 - 2
West Midlands +32 3 £600 - 1
Midlands +25 3 £600 - 2
North East - 2 £625 -
South West - 2 £550 - 5
North West 0 1 £600 +2.48% 3
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UK

GIAC
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.23%) Confluence
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 45 (55.56%) IaaS
1 45 (55.56%) SaaS
2 40 (49.38%) PaaS
3 3 (3.70%) AWS
3 3 (3.70%) Azure
4 1 (1.23%) AWS IoT
4 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.23%) GCP
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.23%) Serverless
4 1 (1.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (48.15%) 5G
1 39 (48.15%) Broadband
2 12 (14.81%) Firewall
2 12 (14.81%) Wireless
3 4 (4.94%) Network Security
4 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.47%) HTTP
6 1 (1.23%) DHCP
6 1 (1.23%) DNS
6 1 (1.23%) FTP
6 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.23%) IPv4
6 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.23%) OSPF
6 1 (1.23%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.23%) VLAN
6 1 (1.23%) VPN
6 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) MySQL
1 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 39 (48.15%) Law
1 39 (48.15%) Organisational Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Finance
4 4 (4.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (58.02%) Penetration Tester
1 47 (58.02%) Tester
2 39 (48.15%) Security Penetration Tester
2 39 (48.15%) Security Specialist
2 39 (48.15%) Security Tester
2 39 (48.15%) Testing Specialist
3 13 (16.05%) Architect
3 13 (16.05%) Security Architect
4 11 (13.58%) Senior
5 9 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 9 (11.11%) Senior Security Architect
6 6 (7.41%) SOC Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) IT Architect
9 3 (3.70%) IT Security Architect
9 3 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
10 2 (2.47%) Firewall Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (48.15%) Web Services
2 2 (2.47%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.23%) JSON
3 1 (1.23%) RESTful
3 1 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (64.20%) Mobile App
2 8 (9.88%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.41%) Operational Technology
4 5 (6.17%) IoT
4 5 (6.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.94%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.47%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.23%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Linux
2 15 (18.52%) Windows
3 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (79.01%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (65.43%) Penetration Testing
3 48 (59.26%) Application Security
3 48 (59.26%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 45 (55.56%) OWASP
5 40 (49.38%) Security Testing
5 40 (49.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (19.75%) Offensive Security
7 15 (18.52%) Information Security
8 13 (16.05%) Red Team
8 13 (16.05%) SIEM
9 12 (14.81%) Cloud Security
10 11 (13.58%) SABSA
10 11 (13.58%) Security Operations
11 9 (11.11%) Computer Science
11 9 (11.11%) Security Architecture
12 8 (9.88%) Ethical Hacking
12 8 (9.88%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 7 (8.64%) Incident Response
13 7 (8.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.52%) Python
2 6 (7.41%) C#
2 6 (7.41%) C++
2 6 (7.41%) Go
2 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.23%) Bash
4 1 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (66.67%) OSCP
2 52 (64.20%) CREST Certified
3 50 (61.73%) Security Cleared
4 49 (60.49%) GPEN
5 47 (58.02%) SANS
6 22 (27.16%) CISSP
7 13 (16.05%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (14.81%) CEH
9 10 (12.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (12.35%) CCSK
9 10 (12.35%) CISA
9 10 (12.35%) CRISC
10 9 (11.11%) Degree
10 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
11 6 (7.41%) CHECK Team Leader
12 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (4.94%) FFIEC
13 4 (4.94%) GCIA
13 4 (4.94%) GCIH
14 3 (3.70%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (50.62%) GDPR
2 39 (48.15%) NCSC
2 39 (48.15%) PCI DSS
3 22 (27.16%) NIST
4 8 (9.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (8.64%) NIST 800
6 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) Docker
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) CSIRT
2 2 (2.47%) Ansible
2 2 (2.47%) Nessus
2 2 (2.47%) QRadar
3 1 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (48.15%) Virgin Media
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.70%) LogRhythm
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle
3 3 (3.70%) TippingPoint
4 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.47%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (2.47%) Cisco
4 2 (2.47%) Citrix
4 2 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.47%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.23%) Carbon Black
5 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.23%) VMware