GCIH Contracts in Reading

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIH 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 528 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.49% 44.30% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 271 211
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile - £44.10 £56.76
25th Percentile - £55.41 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.07 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -5.95% +560.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £86.10 £76.99
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing GCIH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in Reading

GCIH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCIH in Reading.

Daily rate trend for GCIH in Reading

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CFCE
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk