GCFA Contracts in London

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 385 457
Rank change year-on-year +26 +72 +149
Contract jobs citing GCFA 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.006% 0.034%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.026% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £800
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -50.00% +77.78%
75th Percentile £690 - £850
90th Percentile £726 - -
England median daily rate £506 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +26.56% -27.27% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,565 3,911 5,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 24.10% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,406 2,689 3,651
10th Percentile £338 £349 £363
25th Percentile £430 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £660 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 70 80
10th Percentile £17.89 £17.88 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.07 £22.00 £34.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.75% -48.18% +35.80%
75th Percentile £43.44 £43.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £68.08 £87.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

GCFA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GCFA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in London

GCFA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCFA in London.

Daily rate trend for GCFA in London

GCFA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCFA in London over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCFA in London

GCFA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCFA within the London region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Central London - 1 £660 - 1
GCFA
England

GCFA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) STIX
2 2 (40.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) Digital Forensics
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Purple Team
4 2 (40.00%) Red Team
4 2 (40.00%) SOAR
4 2 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
5 1 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 5 (100.00%) GCIA
1 5 (100.00%) GCIH
2 3 (60.00%) GIAC
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk