GIAC Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 - 162
Rank change year-on-year - - +86
Contract jobs citing GIAC 6 0 30
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.14% - 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% - 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 19
10th Percentile £510 - £482
25th Percentile £548 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 - £486
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.25%
75th Percentile £700 - £581
90th Percentile - - £627
England median daily rate £650 £568 £549
% change year-on-year +14.54% +3.42% -8.54%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,349 1,044 1,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.76% 26.30% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 572 809
10th Percentile £220 £260 £262
25th Percentile £400 £389 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -3.14% -0.58%
75th Percentile £600 £579 £627
90th Percentile £703 £672 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 73 88
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.01 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £24.00 £26.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +14.70%
75th Percentile £56.19 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.77 £70.00 £55.26
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.95% -0.30% +16.67%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GIAC job vacancy trend in the North of England

GIAC
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

GIAC
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIAC in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIAC in the North of England

GIAC
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 GIAC within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Yorkshire - 5 £700 - 2
North West - 1 £675 - 4
GIAC
England

GIAC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Akamai
3 3 (50.00%) Cloudflare
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) HTTP
2 3 (50.00%) HTTPS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JSON
1 3 (50.00%) REST
1 3 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Application Security
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) OWASP
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CEH
1 3 (50.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (33.33%) GCIA
2 2 (33.33%) GCIH
2 2 (33.33%) SSCP
3 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (16.67%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) F5
1 3 (50.00%) Imperva
2 2 (33.33%) Rapid7