QRadar Contract Job Trends in the East of England

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QRadar 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.083% - 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.89% - 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile £413 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £550
75th Percentile £438 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £465 £519 £488
% change year-on-year -10.32% +6.36% -25.00%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 225 160 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.32% 11.79% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 101 73
10th Percentile £183 £213 £226
25th Percentile £395 £406 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £638 £580
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 3
10th Percentile £15.31 £21.29 £32.00
25th Percentile £21.51 £33.23 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £63.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +58.75% -18.37%
75th Percentile £66.88 £67.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £68.75 - £48.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +91.18% -9.33% -28.57%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in the East of England

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing QRadar

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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
Essex - 2 £425 - 1
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft