Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 626 784
Rank change year-on-year +111 +158 -156
Contract jobs citing GIAC 67 92 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.081%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 54 40
10th Percentile £400 £527 £450
25th Percentile £434 £605 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +6.12%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £763
90th Percentile £750 £834 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £700 £613
% change year-on-year -14.29% +14.29% -10.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GIAC 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 13,313 16,288 19,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.56% 27.29% 21.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,187 10,860 12,550
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.42%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £743 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.47% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,076 849 780
10th Percentile £13.87 £15.25 £13.71
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.00 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +29.16% +8.01%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £75.24 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.57 £32.37
% change year-on-year -17.41% +53.14% -11.44%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GIAC in the UK

GIAC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GIAC in the UK

GIAC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIAC over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIAC in the UK

GIAC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIAC.

Hourly rate trend for GIAC in the UK

GIAC
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIAC within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +90 66 £600 -14.29% 23
UK excluding London +52 39 £600 -14.29% 19
Work from Home +127 33 £600 -20.00% 13
South East +19 27 - - 5
London +73 25 £444 -40.83% 5
North of England +23 7 £650 +11.11% 4
Yorkshire +30 4 £650 - 2
Midlands +36 3 £600 - 2
West Midlands +30 3 £600 - 1
North East - 2 £625 -
South West - 2 £550 - 5
North West +3 1 £600 +2.56% 2

GIAC
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.49%) Confluence
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.27%) IaaS
1 31 (46.27%) SaaS
2 28 (41.79%) PaaS
3 3 (4.48%) AWS
3 3 (4.48%) Azure
4 1 (1.49%) AWS IoT
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.49%) GCP
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.49%) Serverless
4 1 (1.49%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (40.30%) 5G
1 27 (40.30%) Broadband
2 13 (19.40%) Wireless
3 10 (14.93%) Firewall
4 4 (5.97%) Network Security
5 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.99%) HTTP
7 1 (1.49%) DHCP
7 1 (1.49%) DNS
7 1 (1.49%) FTP
7 1 (1.49%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.49%) IPv4
7 1 (1.49%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.49%) OSPF
7 1 (1.49%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.49%) VLAN
7 1 (1.49%) VPN
7 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) MySQL
1 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 27 (40.30%) Law
1 27 (40.30%) Organisational Skills
2 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Legal
5 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (53.73%) Penetration Tester
1 36 (53.73%) Tester
2 27 (40.30%) Security Penetration Tester
2 27 (40.30%) Security Specialist
2 27 (40.30%) Security Tester
2 27 (40.30%) Testing Specialist
3 10 (14.93%) Architect
3 10 (14.93%) Security Architect
4 9 (13.43%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Architect
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Security Architect
6 6 (8.96%) SOC Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) Security Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) SOC Analyst
10 2 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (2.99%) Information Officer
10 2 (2.99%) Junior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (40.30%) Web Services
2 2 (2.99%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.49%) JSON
3 1 (1.49%) RESTful
3 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (61.19%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.45%) Operational Technology
3 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.46%) IoT
4 5 (7.46%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (5.97%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (5.97%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.99%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.37%) Linux
2 16 (23.88%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (76.12%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (62.69%) Penetration Testing
3 37 (55.22%) Application Security
4 36 (53.73%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 33 (49.25%) OWASP
6 28 (41.79%) Security Testing
6 28 (41.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (25.37%) Offensive Security
8 14 (20.90%) Red Team
9 13 (19.40%) Information Security
9 13 (19.40%) SIEM
10 11 (16.42%) Cloud Security
10 11 (16.42%) Security Operations
11 9 (13.43%) Ethical Hacking
12 8 (11.94%) SABSA
12 8 (11.94%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
13 7 (10.45%) Incident Response
14 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (8.96%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) C++
2 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.96%) C#
3 6 (8.96%) Go
4 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.49%) Bash
5 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (64.18%) OSCP
2 41 (61.19%) CREST Certified
3 39 (58.21%) Security Cleared
4 38 (56.72%) GPEN
5 33 (49.25%) SANS
6 19 (28.36%) CISSP
7 13 (19.40%) CEH
8 10 (14.93%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
9 7 (10.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (10.45%) CCSK
9 7 (10.45%) CISA
9 7 (10.45%) CRISC
9 7 (10.45%) Degree
10 6 (8.96%) CHECK Team Leader
11 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (5.97%) GCIA
12 4 (5.97%) GCIH
13 3 (4.48%) GCED
13 3 (4.48%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (43.28%) GDPR
2 27 (40.30%) NCSC
2 27 (40.30%) PCI DSS
3 21 (31.34%) NIST
4 6 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (7.46%) NIST 800
6 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.49%) Docker
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) CSIRT
2 2 (2.99%) Ansible
2 2 (2.99%) Nessus
2 2 (2.99%) QRadar
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (40.30%) Virgin Media
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) LogRhythm
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) TippingPoint
4 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.99%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco
4 2 (2.99%) Citrix
4 2 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.99%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.49%) Carbon Black
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.49%) VMware