QRadar Contract Job Trends in Bristol

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QRadar 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.38% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 4.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile £685 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £750 -
% change year-on-year -26.67% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Bristol

QRadar falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 115 90 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.65% 13.02% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 60 53
10th Percentile £381 £235 £227
25th Percentile £449 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% +6.95%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £624
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £18.33 £62.20
25th Percentile - £32.28 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -4.52%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £74.44
90th Percentile - £81.48 £77.60
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £60.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -18.92% -5.13%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QRadar relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

QRadar job vacancy trend in Bristol

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing QRadar

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in Bristol

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Network Design
5 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CEH
2 3 (60.00%) CISM
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Suricata
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (20.00%) IBM