GCED Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing GCED 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.054% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £52,500 - -
25th Percentile £58,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £83,125 - -
90th Percentile £83,500 - -
UK median annual salary £76,250 £107,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -29.07% +72.00% -40.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,874 12,568 19,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.10% 41.99% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,404 5,012 12,349
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,584 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.73% +1.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,251 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

GCED job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GCED
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GCED.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GCED

GCED
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCED in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GCED in the UK excluding London

GCED
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCED within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
South East - 7 £75,000 - 2
GCED
UK

GCED
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) HTTP
1 7 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
2 6 (85.71%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) SIEM Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Monitoring Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 7 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (85.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 7 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 7 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 7 (100.00%) SIEM
1 7 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 7 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Tradecraft
1 7 (100.00%) Use Case
1 7 (100.00%) Validation
2 6 (85.71%) Blue Team
2 6 (85.71%) Cyber Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (85.71%) Offensive Security
2 6 (85.71%) Purple Team
2 6 (85.71%) Red Team
2 6 (85.71%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Event Correlation
3 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 7 (100.00%) GCIA
1 7 (100.00%) GCIH
1 7 (100.00%) GIAC
1 7 (100.00%) SANS
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) OSCP
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Splunk
2 6 (85.71%) Carbon Black