GCIH Job Trends in Reading

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GCIH 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.067% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% - -
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 £63,750 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

GCIH 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 327 220 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 21.92% 41.28% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 174 115 308
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,800 £34,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,803 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% -8.05% +5.24%
75th Percentile £75,938 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,500 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +9.52%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

GCIH job vacancy trend in Reading

GCIH
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GCIH.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing GCIH

GCIH
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%) GCED
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
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