GCED Job Trends in Reading

GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for GCED qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GCED 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.083% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £56,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 306 255 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.31% 49.32% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 145 117 463
10th Percentile £37,350 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.10% +5.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £63,749
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,250 £78,750
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +8.53%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCED relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

GCED job vacancy trend in Reading

GCED
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GCED.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GCED

GCED
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Monitoring Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tradecraft
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk