GCIH Contract Job Trends in the North of England

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIH 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.075% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £506 £450 £800
% change year-on-year +12.50% -43.75% +36.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,205 1,076 1,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.26% 25.78% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 756 641 823
10th Percentile £308 £313 £280
25th Percentile £400 £412 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 101 78
10th Percentile £17.18 £10.95 £16.10
25th Percentile £20.26 £15.22 £19.28
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £41.58
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -20.63% +43.37%
75th Percentile £47.12 £54.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.11 £70.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -49.70% -8.73% +21.73%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing GCIH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in the North of England

GCIH
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCIH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCIH

GCIH
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCIH within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
North West - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £473 - 1
GCIH
England

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) SOC Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) GCIA
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) Darktrace
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk