GIAC Contracts in England

Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GIAC qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 516 526 707
Rank change year-on-year +10 +181 -113
Contract jobs citing GIAC 35 116 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.095% 0.24% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.88% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 71 41
10th Percentile £400 £486 £475
25th Percentile £419 £586 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £763
90th Percentile £720 £838 £775
UK median daily rate £588 £700 £638
% change year-on-year -16.07% +9.80% -1.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,235 13,150 15,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.59% 27.55% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,952 8,833 10,370
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £743 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,001 654 684
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £19.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +9.40%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +28.23%

GIAC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GIAC in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GIAC in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIAC in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GIAC in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GIAC in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIAC 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +49 23 £438 -41.67% 12
North of England +2 7 £650 +33.74% 4
Yorkshire +18 4 £650 -
North East - 2 £625 -
South West - 2 £550 - 2
Midlands +24 1 £600 - 2
West Midlands +16 1 £600 - 1
North West -20 1 £600 +23.46% 4
GIAC
UK

GIAC
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) AWS
1 4 (11.43%) Azure
1 4 (11.43%) IaaS
1 4 (11.43%) SaaS
2 2 (5.71%) GCP
3 1 (2.86%) AWS IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.86%) PaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Serverless
3 1 (2.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
2 8 (22.86%) Wireless
3 5 (14.29%) Network Security
4 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.57%) HTTP
6 2 (5.71%) DHCP
6 2 (5.71%) DNS
6 2 (5.71%) FTP
7 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
7 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.86%) IPv4
7 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.86%) OSPF
7 1 (2.86%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.86%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) VPN
7 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) MySQL
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Legal
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Architect
1 9 (25.71%) Security Architect
2 8 (22.86%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Penetration Tester
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Security Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Tester
4 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) SOC Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Junior
6 3 (8.57%) Security Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Information Security Officer
7 2 (5.71%) IT Architect
7 2 (5.71%) IT Security Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Junior Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) JSON
1 1 (2.86%) Regular Expression
1 1 (2.86%) RESTful
1 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Mobile App
2 7 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (17.14%) Operational Technology
3 6 (17.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (14.29%) Security Posture
5 3 (8.57%) IoT
5 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (5.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
2 12 (34.29%) Windows
3 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (42.86%) Information Security
3 13 (37.14%) Security Operations
3 13 (37.14%) SIEM
4 11 (31.43%) Offensive Security
4 11 (31.43%) Penetration Testing
5 10 (28.57%) Application Security
5 10 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 9 (25.71%) Computer Science
6 9 (25.71%) Incident Response
6 9 (25.71%) Red Team
7 8 (22.86%) Ethical Hacking
8 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (20.00%) SABSA
8 7 (20.00%) Security Architecture
8 7 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (17.14%) Security Monitoring
9 6 (17.14%) Threat Analysis
10 5 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 4 (11.43%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) C++
2 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) Go
3 2 (5.71%) Perl
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) CISSP
2 13 (37.14%) CEH
3 11 (31.43%) OSCP
4 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (25.71%) CREST Certified
5 9 (25.71%) Degree
6 8 (22.86%) GPEN
6 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
7 7 (20.00%) SANS
8 6 (17.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (17.14%) CCSK
8 6 (17.14%) CISA
8 6 (17.14%) CRISC
8 6 (17.14%) GCIA
8 6 (17.14%) GCIH
9 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (8.57%) CISM
11 2 (5.71%) CCNP
11 2 (5.71%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (45.71%) NIST
2 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (11.43%) NIST 800
4 3 (8.57%) GDPR
5 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) CSIRT
2 3 (8.57%) Nessus
2 3 (8.57%) QRadar
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 2 (5.71%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.86%) Carbon Black
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) TippingPoint
5 1 (2.86%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.86%) VMware