GCED Jobs in England

GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GCED qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 838 915
Rank change year-on-year +150 +77 +239
Permanent jobs citing GCED 3 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.002% 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.012% 0.008% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £86,750 - -
25th Percentile £93,125 £58,750 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £62,500 £106,250
Median % change year-on-year +72.00% -41.18% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £66,250 £111,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £107,500 £62,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +72.00% -40.48% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GCED 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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,658 24,443 29,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.51% 28.46% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,277 15,785 13,406
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,453 £31,322
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,640 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GCED as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCED in England

GCED
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCED in England.

Salary trend for GCED in England

GCED
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCED in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCED in England

GCED
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCED within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +115 3 £107,500 +72.00%
GCED
UK

GCED
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (66.67%) Information Management
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) GCIA
1 3 (100.00%) GCIH
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
1 3 (100.00%) GREM
1 3 (100.00%) GSEC
1 3 (100.00%) SANS
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) CCSK
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) CISA
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware