GCIH Contracts with Work from Home Options

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 344 448 600
Rank change year-on-year +104 +152 -118
Contract jobs citing GCIH 1 6 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.024% 0.027%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.025% 0.096% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £438 £445 £588
90th Percentile - £454 £638
UK median daily rate £438 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -20.45% - -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,932 6,241 8,772
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 25.33% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,519 4,218 6,182
10th Percentile £335 £381 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 255 225
10th Percentile £14.79 £19.10 £20.54
25th Percentile £24.06 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% +28.57% +25.83%
75th Percentile £68.52 £71.63 £66.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

GCIH
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCIH as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCIH trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCIH
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCIH.

GCIH daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCIH
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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