GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GCFA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 688 855
Rank change year-on-year +100 +167 -168
Contract jobs citing GCFA 2 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.025% 0.006%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.093% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £411 £433
25th Percentile - £506 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £588 £513
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +14.63% -14.58%
75th Percentile - £683 £588
90th Percentile - £850 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GCFA 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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,258 16,187 19,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.56% 27.32% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,176 10,805 12,557
10th Percentile £300 £328 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.92%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £743 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 847 775
10th Percentile £13.87 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.86 £20.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.72 £34.69
% change year-on-year -17.66% +43.34% -0.89%

GCFA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCFA in the UK

GCFA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCFA.

Daily rate trend for GCFA in the UK

GCFA
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCFA within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +112 2 £400 -31.91% 3
London +89 2 £400 -50.00% 1

GCFA
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CCFP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CHFI
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ECIH
2 1 (50.00%) EnCE
2 1 (50.00%) GCED
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) GPEN
2 1 (50.00%) GREM
2 1 (50.00%) GSNA
2 1 (50.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (50.00%) OSCE
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) OSWP
2 1 (50.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco