GIAC Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing GIAC 2 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.15% - 1.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.26% - 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

GIAC 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 761 482 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 57.74% 52.74% 59.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 374 382
10th Percentile £385 £360 £350
25th Percentile £500 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £570
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.76% +0.05%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £667
90th Percentile £738 £716 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 32 39
10th Percentile £15.62 £22.48 £27.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.64% -41.67% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £52.58 £75.00 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

GIAC job vacancy trend in Hampshire

GIAC
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GIAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GIAC

GIAC
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 GIAC within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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 - 2 £700 - 1
GIAC
South East

GIAC
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) S/MIME
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Thales