GCFA Contracts in the South East

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCFA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.033% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.082% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £338 £400 £588
% change year-on-year -15.63% -31.91% +2.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

GCFA 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 1,217 2,478 2,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.39% 44.65% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,415 1,416
10th Percentile £304 £327 £301
25th Percentile £438 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £737 £706
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 212 146
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.51 £21.50
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.32
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +0.05% +27.77%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.01 £68.44
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.53 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +40.00%

GCFA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in the South East

GCFA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCFA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GCFA in the South East

GCFA
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 GCFA within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 £550 -
Thames Valley - 1 £550 -
GCFA
England

GCFA
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft