GCIA Contract Job Trends in London

GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GCIA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 379 433
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 -
Contract jobs citing GCIA 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.037% 0.038% 0.015%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.15% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - £225 £528
25th Percentile £475 £275 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% -
75th Percentile £690 £644 £631
90th Percentile £726 £813 £643
England median daily rate £506 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% -18.18% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,606 4,009 4,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.94% 25.15% 22.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,443 2,554 3,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £439 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% -1.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £786
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 61 95
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.13 £19.10
25th Percentile - £27.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -26.85% +22.42%
75th Percentile £38.75 £60.00 £65.05
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

GCIA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GCIA job vacancy trend in London

GCIA
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GCIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GCIA

GCIA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCIA in London over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCIA in London

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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 GCIA within the London region over the 6 months to 22 October 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 +16 1 £660 +46.67%
GCIA
England

GCIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
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 2 (40.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (40.00%) STIX
1 2 (40.00%) YARA
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) Purple Team
3 2 (40.00%) Red Team
3 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) SOAR
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
1 5 (100.00%) GCIH
2 2 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (40.00%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (60.00%) Qualys
2 3 (60.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Google