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 14 May 2026, 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
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 117 124
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +34
Contract jobs citing Qualys 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.044% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £535 £523
25th Percentile £713 £569 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £738 £673 £788
90th Percentile - £674 £885
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +11.63%

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 950 774 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.48% 44.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 476 686
10th Percentile £363 £313 £323
25th Percentile £436 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.22% -0.09%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £751 £791
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile - £23.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.39 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +75.44% -5.95%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -25.87% +52.08% -5.95%

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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable