GCFA Contracts in the UK excluding London

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 - 447
Rank change year-on-year - - +71
Contract jobs citing GCFA 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% - 0.033%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile - - £628
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £338 £400 £588
% change year-on-year -15.63% -31.91% +2.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,548 7,661 7,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.60% 37.01% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 4,410 5,340
10th Percentile £210 £269 £280
25th Percentile £390 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +0.19% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 936 667
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.96
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.09 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

GCFA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCFA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in the UK excluding London

GCFA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCFA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GCFA in the UK excluding London

GCFA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCFA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East - 1 £550 - 3
Scotland - 1 - -
GCFA
UK

GCFA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft