Qualys Contract Job Trends in Central London

Qualys
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Qualys products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Qualys over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 127 155
Rank change year-on-year +7 +28 +43
Contract jobs citing Qualys 3 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.16% 0.34% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.79% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £439 £518 £504
25th Percentile £471 £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £533 £625 £575
90th Percentile £537 £820 -
London median daily rate £500 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +11.11%

All Vendors
Central London

Qualys falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 927 1,016 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 49.10% 43.27% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 653 902
10th Percentile £323 £333 £276
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £738 £786
London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 8
10th Percentile £18.96 £19.30 £15.58
25th Percentile £20.08 £26.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.33 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.06% +21.43% +47.87%
75th Percentile £53.31 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.05 £137.50 £60.35
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.04% +61.00%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Qualys job vacancy trend in Central London

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Qualys
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 Qualys within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. 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 +10 3 £526 -8.61% 2
Qualys
London

Qualys
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 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Management Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Regular Expression
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISA
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CRISC
1 1 (33.33%) CSSLP
1 1 (33.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Tenable
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Rapid7
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Tanium
2 1 (33.33%) VMware