GIAC Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GIAC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.75% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £717 - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £737 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £758 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £712 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 113 24 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 42.32% 24.00% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 22 29
10th Percentile £331 £355 £398
25th Percentile £357 £365 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £468 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -8.63% +16.48%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £630
90th Percentile £636 £600 £696
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +1.44% -1.42% +5.56%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

GIAC job vacancy trend in Knutsford

GIAC
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing GIAC

GIAC
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 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Kong
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft