GCED Contracts in the South East

GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for GCED qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCED 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.033% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
England median daily rate £750 £500 -
% change year-on-year +50.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

GCED 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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,203 2,559 2,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 39.85% 44.67% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 1,480 1,310
10th Percentile £250 £350 £305
25th Percentile £406 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £619
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 220 131
10th Percentile £18.72 £17.80 £21.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £38.54 £42.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.35 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% -7.50% +37.78%
75th Percentile £70.63 £70.39 £73.59
90th Percentile £82.50 £87.46 £76.99
England median hourly rate £30.29 £41.27 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.60% -24.97% +32.99%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GCED as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GCED in the South East

GCED
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCED within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Berkshire - 1 £750 -
Thames Valley - 1 £750 -
GCED
England

GCED
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk