GSEC Jobs in England

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GSEC qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 865 1143
Rank change year-on-year +54 +278 -255
Permanent jobs citing GSEC 32 43 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.051% 0.023%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.15% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 26 36 22
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,294 £38,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £77,688 £48,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.36% +36.80% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81,625 £95,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -9.36% +34.12% -1.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

GSEC is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,838 28,338 37,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.19% 33.70% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15,697 13,038 16,996
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,825
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

GSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GSEC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GSEC in England

GSEC
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GSEC in England.

Salary trend for GSEC in England

GSEC
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GSEC in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for GSEC in England

GSEC
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSEC within the England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +93 23 £77,500 -13.89% 4
South West -27 4 - - 1
North of England +27 3 £40,000 -46.67% 2
North West -12 2 £42,500 -43.33% 1
South East - 2 £45,000 -
North East - 1 £37,500 -
GSEC
UK

GSEC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) PaaS
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) Firewall
2 12 (37.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) SMTP
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) tcpdump
3 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
General
1 13 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (40.63%) Law
1 13 (40.63%) Legal
2 12 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Finance
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Lead
2 9 (28.13%) Security Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) IT Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) IT Security Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Security Specialist
6 3 (9.38%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Risk Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Security Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Security Assurance Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Security Manager
7 2 (6.25%) SIEM Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Security Posture
2 13 (40.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) CSOC
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (53.13%) Information Security
4 12 (37.50%) Business Continuity
4 12 (37.50%) Data Privacy
4 12 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
4 12 (37.50%) Security Architecture
4 12 (37.50%) Web Filtering
5 8 (25.00%) SIEM
6 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps
8 4 (12.50%) Digital Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 4 (12.50%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 4 (12.50%) OWASP
8 4 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 6 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (87.50%) CISSP
2 21 (65.63%) GIAC
3 17 (53.13%) CEH
4 15 (46.88%) SSCP
5 10 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (21.88%) GCIA
6 7 (21.88%) GCIH
7 6 (18.75%) CCNP
8 5 (15.63%) OSCP
9 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (12.50%) CCSP
9 4 (12.50%) CISM
10 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
10 3 (9.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (6.25%) CRISC
11 2 (6.25%) GCFE
11 2 (6.25%) GISP
12 1 (3.13%) Degree
12 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (53.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (46.88%) GDPR
3 8 (25.00%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Snort
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Darktrace
1 2 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (3.13%) iManage
2 1 (3.13%) Intel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft