GIAC Contracts in the West Midlands

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GIAC 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.35% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £703 - -
25th Percentile £838 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,125 - -
75th Percentile £1,265 - -
90th Percentile £1,311 - -
England median daily rate £625 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.04% +2.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

GIAC 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 582 637 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.74% 33.40% 27.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 414 356
10th Percentile £205 £309 £313
25th Percentile £392 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £583 £628 £606
90th Percentile £639 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 20
10th Percentile - £13.93 £13.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.12 £20.20
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.69% +16.91% +37.50%
75th Percentile £43.63 £50.63 £67.50
90th Percentile £51.00 £56.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.21% -11.71% +22.22%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GIAC in the West Midlands

GIAC
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GIAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GIAC

GIAC
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIAC in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIAC in the West Midlands

GIAC
DemandTrendContract 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 GIAC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Coventry - 2 - - 1
Solihull - 2 £1,234 -
Birmingham - 1 £625 - 2
GIAC
England

GIAC
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 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Attestation
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (33.33%) Data Security
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Behavioural Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CISSP
2 5 (83.33%) CISA
2 5 (83.33%) CISM
3 3 (50.00%) PCI QSA
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) CEH
4 2 (33.33%) CRISC
4 2 (33.33%) ISACA
4 2 (33.33%) OSCP
4 2 (33.33%) SANS
5 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk