GSEC Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for GSEC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 95 -
Rank change year-on-year -57 - -
Contract jobs citing GSEC 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.036% 0.47% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 1.98% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +11.54%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

GSEC 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 551 303 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.82% 23.63% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 194 199
10th Percentile £310 £290 £313
25th Percentile £414 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £554
90th Percentile £688 £634 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 14 24
10th Percentile £20.67 £18.51 £12.60
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.07 £13.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £15.09
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% +66.72% -42.54%
75th Percentile - - £26.12
90th Percentile £68.75 £27.67 £61.50
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +85.96% -32.94% -22.73%

GSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GSEC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

GSEC job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

GSEC
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GSEC

GSEC
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 GSEC within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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 - 1 £550 - 1
GSEC
England

GSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) TruffleHog
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx