Qualys Contracts with Work from Home Options

Qualys
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for knowledge and experience of Qualys products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Qualys over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Qualys, Inc.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 411 562
Rank change year-on-year +132 +151 -115
Contract jobs citing Qualys 69 65 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 1.08% 0.59% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 61 42
10th Percentile £420 £425 £450
25th Percentile £425 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +12.36%
75th Percentile £488 £684 £588
90th Percentile £525 £785 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Qualys is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,417 11,001 17,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.35% 43.08% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,989 7,393 11,880
10th Percentile £325 £330 £345
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 259 257
10th Percentile £13.92 £17.50 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.93 £31.09 £18.75
Median hourly rate £30.56 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% +54.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58.13 £68.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £66.30
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% -2.27%

Qualys
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Qualys as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Qualys trend for jobs with a WFH option

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Qualys.

Qualys daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Qualys
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Qualys over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Qualys daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Qualys
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.99%) Azure
2 14 (20.29%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (10.14%) Entra ID
3 7 (10.14%) GCP
3 7 (10.14%) IaaS
3 7 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.14%) Nutanix
3 7 (10.14%) PaaS
3 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.14%) Rubrik
3 7 (10.14%) SaaS
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.90%) GitHub
4 2 (2.90%) Route 53
4 2 (2.90%) Serverless
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.09%) Firewall
2 16 (23.19%) DNS
3 9 (13.04%) DHCP
3 9 (13.04%) TCP/IP
4 8 (11.59%) VLAN
5 7 (10.14%) Kerberos
5 7 (10.14%) NAS
5 7 (10.14%) SAN
6 2 (2.90%) Network Security
7 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.14%) Power BI
3 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.14%) Git
2 7 (10.14%) JIRA
2 7 (10.14%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (50.72%) Finance
2 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Multimedia
6 2 (2.90%) Retail
7 1 (1.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Analyst
2 13 (18.84%) Vulnerability Specialist
3 12 (17.39%) Security Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Security Specialist
5 8 (11.59%) IT Security Specialist
5 8 (11.59%) Security Operations Specialist
5 8 (11.59%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 7 (10.14%) Unix Specialist
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 6 (8.70%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
8 5 (7.25%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (5.80%) SCCM Specialist
10 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Applications Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Consultant
11 2 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 2 (2.90%) Lead
11 2 (2.90%) Security Analyst
11 2 (2.90%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) LDAP
2 1 (1.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.68%) Management Information System
2 8 (11.59%) Security Posture
3 7 (10.14%) Clustering
3 7 (10.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (10.14%) Replication
4 3 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.43%) Linux
1 21 (30.43%) Windows
2 19 (27.54%) Windows Server
3 13 (18.84%) Unix
4 12 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (10.14%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (10.14%) Solaris
5 7 (10.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.45%) CentOS
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (85.51%) Vulnerability Management
2 24 (34.78%) Incident Response
3 23 (33.33%) Data Security
3 23 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 19 (27.54%) SIEM
5 16 (23.19%) Data Loss Prevention
6 13 (18.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (18.84%) Security Patching
7 12 (17.39%) Information Security
7 12 (17.39%) ITIL
7 12 (17.39%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 10 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (13.04%) DevOps
9 9 (13.04%) Security Hardening
10 8 (11.59%) Agile
10 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.59%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (10.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
1 10 (14.49%) Python
2 7 (10.14%) Bash
3 1 (1.45%) C++
3 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) CISSP
2 8 (11.59%) CISM
3 6 (8.70%) Degree
4 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.35%) CEH
6 2 (2.90%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.90%) CSSLP
6 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.45%) CISA
7 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) GDPR
1 7 (10.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 7 (10.14%) SLA
2 2 (2.90%) COBIT
2 2 (2.90%) ISO 22301
2 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.90%) NIST
2 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.45%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Active Directory
2 15 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.14%) Docker
4 3 (4.35%) vSphere
5 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (21.74%) Ansible
2 13 (18.84%) SCCM
3 7 (10.14%) EMC NetWorker
3 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.14%) Netcool
3 7 (10.14%) Terraform
3 7 (10.14%) Tivoli
3 7 (10.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (7.25%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.80%) Nessus
5 4 (5.80%) Puppet
6 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.35%) WSUS
7 2 (2.90%) Salt
8 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (53.62%) Microsoft
2 26 (37.68%) VMware
3 16 (23.19%) Forcepoint
3 16 (23.19%) LogRhythm
3 16 (23.19%) Varonis
4 7 (10.14%) CA
4 7 (10.14%) Cisco
4 7 (10.14%) CyberArk
4 7 (10.14%) Dell
4 7 (10.14%) EMC
4 7 (10.14%) HP
4 7 (10.14%) IBM
4 7 (10.14%) Isilon
4 7 (10.14%) Oracle
4 7 (10.14%) Serena
4 7 (10.14%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.14%) Splunk
5 6 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.80%) Rapid7
7 3 (4.35%) Veracode