GCIH Contracts

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 682 829
Rank change year-on-year +114 +147 -124
Contract jobs citing GCIH 16 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.027% 0.022%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.100% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 14
10th Percentile £243 £413 £450
25th Percentile £409 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% -2.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £738 £666 £625
90th Percentile £805 £777 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £457 £575
% change year-on-year -7.00% -20.52% +35.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GCIH falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,062 15,003 18,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.91% 27.01% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,100 9,981 12,683
10th Percentile £310 £349 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 750 778
10th Percentile £13.99 £15.19 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.34 £21.67 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%
75th Percentile £63.49 £68.75 £59.22
90th Percentile £76.15 £80.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +25.00%

GCIH
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCIH in the UK

GCIH
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCIH in the UK

GCIH
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCIH over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCIH in the UK

GCIH
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 11 £450 -45.12% 9
England +87 11 £450 -28.00% 15
Work from Home +118 8 £450 +5.88% 6
Scotland +45 1 £425 -
UK excluding London +21 1 £425 -7.00% 7

GCIH
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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) HTTP
2 4 (25.00%) Network Security
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) DHCP
3 3 (18.75%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) FTP
4 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
5 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (6.25%) tcpdump
5 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Law
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 2 (12.50%) IT Security Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Junior
4 2 (12.50%) Monitoring Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Security Monitoring Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) SIEM Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) SOC Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (43.75%) Management Information System
3 6 (37.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Information Security
2 11 (68.75%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (68.75%) Security Operations
2 11 (68.75%) SIEM
3 10 (62.50%) Incident Response
4 9 (56.25%) Computer Science
5 6 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (31.25%) Threat Analysis
6 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 4 (25.00%) Information Assurance
7 4 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
7 4 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (18.75%) Cyber Intelligence
8 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) GIAC
2 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 10 (62.50%) GCIA
3 7 (43.75%) CISM
3 7 (43.75%) CISSP
4 6 (37.50%) CEH
5 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (31.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (18.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (18.75%) GSEC
6 3 (18.75%) SANS
7 2 (12.50%) CCNP
7 2 (12.50%) CISMP
7 2 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (12.50%) CSSLP
7 2 (12.50%) GPEN
7 2 (12.50%) GWAPT
7 2 (12.50%) Linux+ Certification
7 2 (12.50%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (12.50%) COBIT
3 2 (12.50%) NIST 800
4 1 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (6.25%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Snort
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) CSIRT
2 5 (31.25%) Nessus
3 4 (25.00%) QRadar
4 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) logstash
4 2 (12.50%) Terraform
5 1 (6.25%) Ansible
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
1 4 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Cybereason
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) ForeScout
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft