GCFA Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
South East > Hampshire

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCFA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.065% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £408 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 918 401 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 59.61% 55.08% 66.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 313 556
10th Percentile £418 £365 £400
25th Percentile £500 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -7.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £694 £625 £675
90th Percentile £775 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £515 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -5.29% -1.14% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 41
10th Percentile £13.88 £24.06 £18.32
25th Percentile £13.95 £31.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £23.58 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.28% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £80.00
South East median hourly rate £41.34 £56.75 £57.32
% change year-on-year -27.15% -0.99% +14.64%

GCFA
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

GCFA job vacancy trend in Hampshire

GCFA
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCFA within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. 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
Basingstoke - 1 - - 1
GCFA
South East

GCFA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC