GCIH Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 - 469
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing GCIH 10 0 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% - 0.031%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £400 - £398
25th Percentile £463 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £500 - £443
90th Percentile £530 - £453
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 - £40.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

GCIH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GCIH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCIH trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GCIH
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GCIH.

GCIH daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCIH
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GCIH over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GCIH daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (10.00%) SMTP
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) French Language
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Security Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SOC Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Compliance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Compliance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (10.00%) Life Science
4 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (10.00%) MISP
4 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (80.00%) SIEM
3 6 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 4 (40.00%) SOAR
5 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 3 (30.00%) Threat Detection
5 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) CISM
2 4 (40.00%) GIAC
3 3 (30.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (30.00%) CCSP
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) CEH
4 2 (20.00%) CISA
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (20.00%) GCIA
4 2 (20.00%) GSEC
4 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
5 1 (10.00%) GCFA
5 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (10.00%) OSCP
5 1 (10.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (20.00%) GDPR
3 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (20.00%) SLA
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (10.00%) Darktrace
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Rapid7