GCIH Contracts in the UK excluding London

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 434 504
Rank change year-on-year +50 +70 -75
Contract jobs citing GCIH 1 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.043% 0.023%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.014% 0.13% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £413 £500
25th Percentile £413 £413 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £504 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -12.43% +35.29%
75th Percentile £438 £613 £616
90th Percentile - £638 £631
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -20.45% - -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

GCIH is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,404 7,527 8,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.48% 32.71% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,312 5,028 5,210
10th Percentile £270 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £422 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 598 524
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.11
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in the UK excluding London

GCIH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCIH in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GCIH in the UK excluding London

GCIH
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCIH within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +37 1 £425 -
GCIH
UK

GCIH
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ForeScout