GIAC Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 99 118
Rank change year-on-year -17 +19 +31
Contract jobs citing GIAC 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.13% 0.26% 0.048%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 1.32% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
England median daily rate £638 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 364 302 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.62% 19.89% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 211 272
10th Percentile £305 £363 £264
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -5.66% +17.78%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 8
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.16 £15.32 £20.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.19 £28.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +9.85% +57.72%
75th Percentile - £47.19 £33.56
90th Percentile - £61.50 £45.80
England median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.55% -3.64% +22.22%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GIAC in Yorkshire

GIAC
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GIAC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GIAC

GIAC
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIAC within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 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 Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
GIAC
England

GIAC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Akamai
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTPS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) GWAPT
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Imperva