Qualys Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Qualys
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 16 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 115 144
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 +49
Contract jobs citing Qualys 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.65% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £439 £516 £503
25th Percentile £471 £522 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% +10.05% -7.11%
75th Percentile £533 £706 £541
90th Percentile £537 £853 £562
Central London median daily rate £526 £550 £523
% change year-on-year -4.45% +5.26% -7.11%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 863 929 1,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 50.15% 43.84% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 588 818
10th Percentile £325 £339 £325
25th Percentile £422 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 8
10th Percentile £19.11 £18.70 £15.58
25th Percentile £20.63 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.33 £71.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.05% +103.57% +66.67%
75th Percentile £50.13 £118.38 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.33 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.35% +122.22% -4.94%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Qualys job vacancy trend in the City of London

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Qualys
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 (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