QRadar Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 123 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +62
Contract jobs citing QRadar 1 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.052% 0.11% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.42% 0.61% 3.48%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £300 £670 £625
% change year-on-year -55.22% +7.20% +4.17%

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 240 326 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.51% 17.79% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 219 234
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £675
90th Percentile £731 £730 £754
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +729.63% -34.80%
75th Percentile £41.72 - £32.25
90th Percentile £52.52 - £43.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -77.26% +729.63% -38.64%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in the City of London

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing QRadar

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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