GCIH Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCIH 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £461 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £473 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 219 198 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.97% 23.02% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 148 161
10th Percentile £344 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £574 £550 £650
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £15.40 £30.00
25th Percentile - £15.75 £30.01
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.03
Median % change year-on-year - +33.22% +66.81%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £30.06
90th Percentile - £50.75 £30.07
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.13% -17.10% +66.67%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in West Yorkshire

GCIH
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GCIH.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GCIH

GCIH
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Leeds - 1 £473 - 1
GCIH
Yorkshire

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk