GCIH Contracts in the Thames Valley

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIH 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
South East median daily rate £500 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

GCIH 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GCIH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in the Thames Valley

GCIH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCIH in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GCIH in the Thames Valley

GCIH
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCIH within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 3 £500 -
GCIH
South East

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Event Correlation
2 2 (66.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (66.67%) SOAR
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Auditing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CFCE
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) GCFA
2 1 (33.33%) GCIA
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk