GSEC Jobs in London

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for GSEC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 509 567
Rank change year-on-year +120 +58 +345
Permanent jobs citing GSEC 11 22 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.090% 0.092%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.26% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 21 23
10th Percentile - - £77,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £77,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.19% -13.89% +74.76%
75th Percentile £111,250 £90,000 £103,750
90th Percentile - - £109,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £77,500 £85,500
% change year-on-year -19.35% -9.36% +36.80%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

GSEC 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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,244 6,794 8,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.04% 27.72% 26.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,815 4,120 5,328
10th Percentile £41,100 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,406 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GSEC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GSEC in London

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Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GSEC in London.

Salary trend for GSEC in London

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Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GSEC in London over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for GSEC in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) IaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
2 7 (63.64%) Link 16
2 7 (63.64%) RS-232
2 7 (63.64%) RS-485
2 7 (63.64%) Tactical Data Link
2 7 (63.64%) VLAN
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (63.64%) Military
1 7 (63.64%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Field Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) IT Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Communications Security
1 7 (63.64%) Key Management
1 7 (63.64%) Preventative Maintenance
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Information Security
2 3 (27.27%) Internal Audit
2 3 (27.27%) Time Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 2 (18.18%) Information Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
3 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) C
1 7 (63.64%) R
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) CCNA
1 9 (81.82%) CCNP
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (63.64%) CompTIA Security+
2 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SSCP
3 4 (36.36%) CISSP
4 3 (27.27%) GCED
4 3 (27.27%) GCIA
4 3 (27.27%) GCIH
4 3 (27.27%) GIAC
4 3 (27.27%) GREM
4 3 (27.27%) SANS
5 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
5 2 (18.18%) CCSK
5 2 (18.18%) CCSP
5 2 (18.18%) CISA
5 2 (18.18%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) MIL-STD-1553
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
3 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (9.09%) GDPR
5 1 (9.09%) GRC
5 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
5 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) VMware