GCFE Jobs in the UK excluding London

GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GCFE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 762 741
Rank change year-on-year +187 -21 +119
Permanent jobs citing GCFE 2 9 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.012% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.009% 0.045% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 8
10th Percentile - £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile - £49,375 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -
75th Percentile - £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile - £96,250 £73,250
UK median annual salary - £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -30.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

GCFE 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 21,309 19,804 21,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.11% 26.56% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,672 12,268 8,007
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCFE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCFE in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCFE in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GCFE in the UK excluding London

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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 GCFE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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 +86 2 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Information Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Advanced Persistent Threat
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCFP
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) EnCE
1 2 (100.00%) GCFA
1 2 (100.00%) GREM
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) EnCase
1 2 (100.00%) FTK
1 2 (100.00%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) FireEye
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) NetWitness
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk