GCIH Contracts in Wales

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIH 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.34% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £493 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +12.57% -20.45% -2.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 125 93 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 42.09% 22.91% 42.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 61 189
10th Percentile £233 £136 £187
25th Percentile £296 £220 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% -4.29% -4.37%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £613
90th Percentile £594 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £18.63 £11.02 -
25th Percentile £23.54 £16.65 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.83 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +25.83% -60.78%
75th Percentile £38.25 £82.19 £20.10
90th Percentile £42.38 £87.80 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.27% +23.60%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing GCIH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in Wales

GCIH
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCIH within the Wales region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 Wales - 1 £500 - 2
GCIH
UK

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler