GSEC Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough with a requirement for GSEC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GSEC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.74% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hampshire median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Farnborough

GSEC 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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 194 72 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 72.12% 75.00% 72.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 51 104
10th Percentile £506 £380 £436
25th Percentile £550 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -16.58% +10.34%
75th Percentile £729 £631 £675
90th Percentile £763 £675 £750
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 5
10th Percentile - £65.25 £66.75
25th Percentile £38.25 £67.50 £71.25
Median hourly rate £73.50 £72.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -3.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95.25 £74.38 -
90th Percentile £96.00 £74.75 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £56.25 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +123.66% -56.15% -4.42%

GSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GSEC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

GSEC job vacancy trend in Farnborough

GSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
GSEC jobs