GCIA Contract Job Trends in the North West

GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for GCIA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 132 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing GCIA 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.053% 0.091% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile £668 - -
90th Percentile £717 - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -26.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,076 747 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.52% 33.95% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 421 385
10th Percentile £318 £313 £260
25th Percentile £414 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.79% -1.42%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £600
90th Percentile £695 £716 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 68 98
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.33 £10.95
25th Percentile £27.38 £21.02 £12.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £16.52
Median % change year-on-year +50.19% +77.18% -61.13%
75th Percentile £66.66 £58.91 £50.13
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.36 £64.68
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

GCIA job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GCIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GCIA

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCIA in the North West over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCIA in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCIA within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. 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
Cheshire - 1 £420 - 1
Merseyside - 1 £700 -
GCIA
England

GCIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto