GSEC Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for GSEC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GSEC 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.087% - 0.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% - 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44,750 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 - £37,500
75th Percentile £48,250 - £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £46,500 - £37,500

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 279 141 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 24.20% 33.57% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 158 98 206
10th Percentile - £28,350 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £55,000 £45,862
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +19.92% -3.80%
75th Percentile £60,750 £70,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £70,332 £85,000 £73,250
North East median annual salary £42,750 £56,500 £48,367
% change year-on-year -24.34% +16.82% +1.82%

GSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GSEC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

GSEC job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

GSEC
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GSEC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GSEC

GSEC
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSEC within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £46,500 - 2
GSEC
North East

GSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Email Filtering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler