GCED Contracts

GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GCED 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 582 - 845
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCED 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - 0.003%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £450 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
75th Percentile £550 - £625
90th Percentile £580 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GCED 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%

GCED
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCED in the UK

GCED
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCED in the UK

GCED
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for GCED in the UK

GCED
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 GCED 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
England - 2 £500 -
UK excluding London - 1 £600 -
London - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -

GCED
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCFP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CHFI
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) EnCE
2 1 (50.00%) GCFA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GPEN
2 1 (50.00%) GREM
2 1 (50.00%) GSEC
2 1 (50.00%) GSNA
2 1 (50.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (50.00%) OSCE
2 1 (50.00%) OSCP
2 1 (50.00%) OSWP
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) TippingPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro