GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GCIA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 868 941
Rank change year-on-year +222 +73 +200
Permanent jobs citing GCIA 46 28 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.028% 0.046%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.18% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24 12 41
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,050 -
25th Percentile £63,438 £57,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +56.25% -42.86%
75th Percentile £92,500 £81,563 £72,500
90th Percentile - £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - +60.00% -37.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GCIA 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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,404 27,420 33,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.81% 27.84% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,182 17,336 15,221
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

GCIA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GCIA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCIA.

Salary trend for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCIA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCIA within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +207 46 £75,000 +20.00% 8
London +142 39 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Work from Home +188 13 £60,000 - 11
UK excluding London +195 7 £60,000 - 8
South East +110 4 £60,000 - 2
North of England +83 1 £65,000 +18.72% 2
Yorkshire +76 1 £65,000 +4.00%
South West - 1 £67,500 -
East of England - 1 £35,000 - 1

GCIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (8.70%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) SaaS
3 2 (4.35%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) IaaS
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) Firewall
2 9 (19.57%) SAN
3 7 (15.22%) Wireshark
4 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
5 4 (8.70%) Network Security
6 2 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Burp Suite
General
1 28 (60.87%) Finance
2 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Legal
5 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Retail
7 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (67.39%) Analyst
2 30 (65.22%) Security Analyst
3 11 (23.91%) Incident Analyst
3 11 (23.91%) Security Incident Analyst
3 11 (23.91%) SIEM Analyst
4 10 (21.74%) CISSP Analyst
4 10 (21.74%) Junior
4 10 (21.74%) Junior Analyst
5 9 (19.57%) Junior Operations Analyst
5 9 (19.57%) Junior Security Analyst
5 9 (19.57%) Operations Analyst
5 9 (19.57%) Security Operations Analyst
6 8 (17.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 7 (15.22%) Information Analyst
7 7 (15.22%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (10.87%) Incident Manager
8 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Security Specialist
9 4 (8.70%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (41.30%) Hedge funds
2 11 (23.91%) Management Information System
3 9 (19.57%) Podcast
4 8 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (10.87%) Fixed Income
5 5 (10.87%) Virtual Team
6 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (2.17%) Insider Threat
8 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (41.30%) Windows
2 8 (17.39%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (95.65%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (78.26%) SIEM
3 32 (69.57%) Incident Response
4 22 (47.83%) Security Operations
5 20 (43.48%) Information Security
6 14 (30.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 13 (28.26%) Computer Science
8 12 (26.09%) Security Monitoring
9 9 (19.57%) Data Loss Prevention
9 9 (19.57%) Threat Modelling
10 7 (15.22%) Application Security
10 7 (15.22%) ITIL
10 7 (15.22%) Project Management
10 7 (15.22%) Risk Management
10 7 (15.22%) Threat Detection
11 6 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
12 5 (10.87%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 5 (10.87%) Offensive Security
12 5 (10.87%) Six Sigma
12 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 23 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (86.96%) GCIH
2 36 (78.26%) CISSP
3 27 (58.70%) CompTIA Security+
3 27 (58.70%) OSCP
4 23 (50.00%) CEH
5 19 (41.30%) Degree
6 18 (39.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (36.96%) SANS
8 9 (19.57%) GCFA
9 6 (13.04%) CCNA
9 6 (13.04%) CCNP
9 6 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (10.87%) OSCE
10 5 (10.87%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 5 (10.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 4 (8.70%) GIAC
12 3 (6.52%) GCED
12 3 (6.52%) GREM
12 3 (6.52%) GSEC
13 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (10.87%) NIST
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.17%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Snort
1 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) CSIRT
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (17.39%) VMware
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk