GCIA Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for GCIA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.44% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £420 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

GCIA 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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 84 66 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 37.33% 24.81% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 65 31
10th Percentile £401 £306 £365
25th Percentile £425 £350 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £438 £530
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% -17.45% -0.93%
75th Percentile £617 £511 £568
90th Percentile £640 £543 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £447 £515
% change year-on-year +11.86% -13.20% +3.00%

GCIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto