GSEC Contracts in the UK excluding London

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GSEC qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 448 512
Rank change year-on-year +55 +64 -87
Contract jobs citing GSEC 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.017% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.026% 0.049% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £600 £583 -
25th Percentile £600 £594 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £641
90th Percentile £600 - £646
UK median daily rate £488 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -23.53% +2.00% +31.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

GSEC is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,729 8,082 8,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.19% 33.38% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,463 5,423 5,305
10th Percentile £263 £273 £250
25th Percentile £425 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £594
90th Percentile £720 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 689 551
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.45 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £16.37
Median hourly rate £40.25 £50.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% +61.29% -10.25%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £76.29 £78.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £40.93
% change year-on-year -25.93% +31.94% +6.31%

GSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GSEC in the UK excluding London

GSEC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for GSEC in the UK excluding London

GSEC
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 GSEC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Midlands - 2 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £600 -
GSEC
UK

GSEC
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) GCED
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Trend Micro