QRadar Contract Job Trends in Central London

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 125 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +57
Contract jobs citing QRadar 1 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.048% 0.096% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.56% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £419
25th Percentile £250 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £670 £625
Median % change year-on-year -55.22% +7.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £350 - £925
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £575 £475 £700
% change year-on-year +21.05% -32.14% +12.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 272 356 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.98% 17.07% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 240 246
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £718 £726 £741
London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £19.65 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +729.63% -38.64%
75th Percentile - - £32.25
90th Percentile £39.17 - £43.05
London median hourly rate £53.25 £49.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +7.58% +57.14% +22.52%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in Central London

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing QRadar

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
City of London -7 1 £300 -55.22% 1
QRadar
London

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Security Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Spyware
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk