GCIH Contracts in the West Midlands

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
Contract jobs citing GCIH 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% - 0.093%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.35% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £718 - -
25th Percentile £725 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £775 - £575
90th Percentile £783 - -
England median daily rate £506 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +12.50% -28.00% +8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 577 646 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.70% 34.43% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 424 352
10th Percentile £178 £309 £313
25th Percentile £375 £371 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 14
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.69 £17.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.47 £25.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +33.59% +29.00%
75th Percentile £43.44 £54.69 £33.06
90th Percentile £50.75 £58.75 £56.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GCIH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in the West Midlands

GCIH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCIH in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for GCIH in the West Midlands

GCIH
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCIH within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Birmingham - 1 £725 - 2
GCIH
England

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Director
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST