GIAC Contracts in Reading

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing GIAC 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.18% - 0.087%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.57% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £510 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 174 548 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.53% 44.73% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 262 212
10th Percentile £352 £213 £363
25th Percentile £466 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £605 £557
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +8.72% +11.30%
75th Percentile £697 £688 £638
90th Percentile £700 £746 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 58 16
10th Percentile £44.05 £46.33 £60.32
25th Percentile - £56.31 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.05 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% -13.82% +620.00%
75th Percentile - £87.49 £77.54
90th Percentile £74.31 £100.00 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £66.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -6.67% +214.29%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for GIAC in Reading

GIAC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for GIAC in Reading

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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%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Forensic Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
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
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk