GCIA Contracts

GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GCIA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 665 831
Rank change year-on-year +94 +166 -108
Contract jobs citing GCIA 8 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.034% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.062% 0.12% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 3
10th Percentile £330 £455 -
25th Percentile £409 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £656 £606
90th Percentile £858 £762 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

GCIA 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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,878 15,332 19,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.19% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 10,240 12,718
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 747 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.57
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.41 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%

GCIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCIA over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCIA in the UK

GCIA
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCIA within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +103 7 £438 -32.43% 6
England +89 7 £438 -30.00% 10
Work from Home +102 2 £450 -21.74% 3

GCIA
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) HTTP
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) FTP
4 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
4 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Security
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Monitoring Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Computer Science
1 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
1 7 (87.50%) Security Operations
1 7 (87.50%) SIEM
2 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Information Security
3 4 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Information Assurance
4 3 (37.50%) Remediation Plan
4 3 (37.50%) Threat Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (25.00%) Application Security
5 2 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
5 2 (25.00%) Information Management
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) GCIH
2 7 (87.50%) Degree
3 6 (75.00%) GIAC
4 4 (50.00%) CISSP
5 3 (37.50%) CEH
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (25.00%) CCNP
6 2 (25.00%) CISM
6 2 (25.00%) SANS
7 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (12.50%) CCFP
7 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (12.50%) ECIH
7 1 (12.50%) ECSA
7 1 (12.50%) GAWN
7 1 (12.50%) GCFE
7 1 (12.50%) GPPA
7 1 (12.50%) GREM
7 1 (12.50%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) CSIRT
2 3 (37.50%) Nessus
2 3 (37.50%) QRadar
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) BeyondTrust
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft