QRadar Contracts in the City of London

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring QRadar skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QRadar over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 114 169
Rank change year-on-year -6 +55 +15
Contract jobs citing QRadar 3 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.46% 0.055%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 3.60% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £392 £629
25th Percentile - £464 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -5.66% +17.26%
75th Percentile - £925 £684
90th Percentile - - £686
Central London median daily rate £670 £625 £663
% change year-on-year +7.20% -5.66% +17.26%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 320 278 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.21% 12.79% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 194 390
10th Percentile £300 £350 £395
25th Percentile £450 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £674 £659 £700
90th Percentile £725 £755 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £44.09
25th Percentile - £12.75 £79.89
Median hourly rate - £20.25 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year - -75.92% +140.26%
75th Percentile - £32.81 £88.30
90th Percentile - £43.28 -
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £20.25 £84.09
% change year-on-year +30.62% -75.92% +140.26%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing QRadar as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in the City of London

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QRadar in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for QRadar in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Rubrik
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) Serena SBM
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas File System
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Control-M
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (33.33%) Netcool
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) BMC
2 2 (66.67%) CyberArk
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Qualys
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Serena
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase