GCIH Contract Job Trends in the North East

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIH 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.13% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -28.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 331 113 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 43.16% 40.07% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 72 38
10th Percentile £320 £188 £339
25th Percentile £400 £413 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £547
90th Percentile £638 £673 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 4 14
10th Percentile £24.60 - £20.90
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £15.26 £48.09
Median % change year-on-year +326.09% -68.28% +84.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £27.15 £70.00
90th Percentile - £42.06 -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +115.71% -45.54% -16.04%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

GCIH job vacancy trend in the North East

GCIH
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On