GIAC Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GIAC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.40% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £675 - £563

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 54 71 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 21.86% 29.71% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 14
10th Percentile £161 £148 £216
25th Percentile £400 £153 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £246 £400
Median % change year-on-year +103.05% -38.44% -20.00%
75th Percentile £634 £600 £556
90th Percentile £668 £651 £575
North West median daily rate £492 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile - £15.35 £14.69
25th Percentile - £17.65 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 £19.86 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.52% +13.49% -3.37%
75th Percentile £14.36 £23.53 £19.13
90th Percentile £18.22 £24.11 £19.38
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +95.64%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

GIAC job vacancy trend in Merseyside

GIAC
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing GIAC

GIAC
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIAC within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Liverpool - 1 £675 -
GIAC
North West

GIAC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On