GIAC Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GIAC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £650 -
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 92 73 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.63% 16.15% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 48 88
10th Percentile £312 £319 £298
25th Percentile £345 £466 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -9.38% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £691
90th Percentile £649 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £476 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -4.80% -8.26% +21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £14.32 - £14.90
25th Percentile £15.01 £11.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% -55.74% +105.73%
75th Percentile £17.34 £15.25 £40.25
90th Percentile £18.04 - £46.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £28.39
% change year-on-year +1.13% -12.40% +57.72%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GIAC in South Yorkshire

GIAC
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing GIAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing GIAC

GIAC
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIAC within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Sheffield - 1 £700 -
GIAC
Yorkshire

GIAC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) GWAPT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Imperva