IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for QRadar skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QRadar over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 683 751
Rank change year-on-year +102 +68 -103
Contract jobs citing QRadar 17 36 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.060% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.37% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 66
10th Percentile £407 £470 £332
25th Percentile £442 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £766 £675 £684
90th Percentile £925 £766 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -23.38% +36.84% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

QRadar is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +120 15 £625 -3.85% 16
London +100 12 £625 -3.85% 10
Work from Home +114 7 £600 -4.00% 10
UK excluding London +59 2 £498 -23.38% 7
South East +25 1 £396 -36.64% 2
East of England - 1 £600 - 2

QRadar
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) FTP
2 4 (23.53%) HTTP
2 4 (23.53%) ICMP
2 4 (23.53%) POP3
2 4 (23.53%) SMTP
2 4 (23.53%) SSH
2 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
3 3 (17.65%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) DSL
4 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Security Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) ArcSight Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) SIEM Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) SIEM
2 7 (41.18%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (35.29%) Threat Detection
4 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (29.41%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) Log Aggregation
5 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Security Operations
6 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
6 3 (17.65%) Information Security
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Information Assurance
7 2 (11.76%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (11.76%) Threat Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 1 (5.88%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CISSP
2 4 (23.53%) CISM
2 4 (23.53%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) GCIA
3 2 (11.76%) GCIH
3 2 (11.76%) GIAC
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CCNA
4 1 (5.88%) CCSP
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) ISSEP
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kibana
1 5 (29.41%) logstash
2 3 (17.65%) Nessus
3 2 (11.76%) CSIRT
4 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Nmap
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Splunk
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) ArcSight
4 2 (11.76%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.76%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) LogRhythm
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) ESET
5 1 (5.88%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.88%) McAfee
5 1 (5.88%) Proofpoint
5 1 (5.88%) Qualys
5 1 (5.88%) Tanium
5 1 (5.88%) Thales