GCIH Contracts

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GCIH qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 680 837
Rank change year-on-year +92 +157 -135
Contract jobs citing GCIH 14 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.027% 0.022%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.100% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 14
10th Percentile £225 £413 £450
25th Percentile £403 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £475 £666 £625
90th Percentile £824 £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 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 12,965 15,005 19,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.93% 27.00% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 9,986 12,729
10th Percentile £310 £340 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 750 780
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.18 £21.67 £19.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.78 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.90% +50.00% +25.61%

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 9 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 9 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 +94 9 £438 -30.00% 15
London +89 9 £438 -46.65% 9
Work from Home +112 6 £450 +5.88% 6
Scotland +36 1 £425 -
UK excluding London +35 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 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) HTTP
2 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) DHCP
3 3 (21.43%) DNS
3 3 (21.43%) FTP
4 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
5 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
5 1 (7.14%) tcpdump
5 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Law
4 2 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Incident Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Security Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Security Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
4 2 (14.29%) IT Security Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Junior
4 2 (14.29%) Monitoring Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Security Monitoring Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Operations Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
5 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Information Security
1 11 (78.57%) Security Operations
2 10 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 9 (64.29%) Computer Science
3 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (64.29%) SIEM
4 6 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (35.71%) Threat Analysis
5 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 4 (28.57%) Information Assurance
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
6 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (21.43%) Digital Forensics
7 3 (21.43%) Risk Analysis
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) Information Management
8 2 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Degree
1 10 (71.43%) GCIA
2 9 (64.29%) GIAC
3 7 (50.00%) CISSP
4 6 (42.86%) CEH
5 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (35.71%) CISM
6 3 (21.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (21.43%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (21.43%) SANS
7 2 (14.29%) CCNP
7 2 (14.29%) CISMP
7 2 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (14.29%) CSSLP
7 2 (14.29%) GPEN
7 2 (14.29%) GWAPT
8 1 (7.14%) CHFI
8 1 (7.14%) GSEC
8 1 (7.14%) GSNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) COBIT
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) CSIRT
2 5 (35.71%) Nessus
3 4 (28.57%) QRadar
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) BeyondTrust
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) ForeScout
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft