GCIH Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIH 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.83% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.25% - -
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

GCIH 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 89 60 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 36.93% 22.99% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 59 31
10th Percentile £395 £312 £365
25th Percentile £423 £363 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £447 £518
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -13.62% -3.09%
75th Percentile £618 £513 £568
90th Percentile £639 £548 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £450 £515
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.62% +3.00%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

GCIH job vacancy trend in Knutsford

GCIH
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk