GCFE Job Trends in the City of London

GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for GCFE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 160 -
Rank change year-on-year +35 - -
Permanent jobs citing GCFE 1 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.050% 0.15% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% 0.48% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median annual salary - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

GCFE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 485 842 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.12% 31.10% 23.45%
Number of salaries quoted 361 480 585
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £122,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +7.69% -7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCFE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

GCFE job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCFE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCFE

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Responder
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Purple Team
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GPEN
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft