GSEC Contract Job Trends in Telford

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
Shropshire > Telford

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GSEC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.37% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £639 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Telford

GSEC 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 Telford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 161 63 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 59.19% 65.63% 48.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 51 11
10th Percentile £428 £338 £405
25th Percentile £491 £427 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.13% +1.89% -6.82%
75th Percentile £540 £519 £495
90th Percentile £564 £540 -
Shropshire median daily rate £519 £481 £475
% change year-on-year +7.91% +1.16% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year +32.65% - -

GSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GSEC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford.

GSEC job vacancy trend in Telford

GSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft