QRadar Contracts in England

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 526 630
Rank change year-on-year +72 +104 +87
Contract jobs citing QRadar 31 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.043% 0.046%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.82% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 17
10th Percentile £425 £405 £400
25th Percentile £463 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £608 £819 £675
90th Percentile £702 £925 £950
UK median daily rate £509 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -16.86% -2.00% +13.64%

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing QRadar as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in England

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QRadar in England.

Daily rate trend for QRadar in England

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in England

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +42 16 £519 -17.04% 11
South East +51 7 £500 +26.26% 15
Midlands - 2 £550 -
West Midlands - 2 £550 -
North of England - 1 - - 3
North West - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £750 -
QRadar
UK

QRadar
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
1 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
1 9 (29.03%) GitHub
2 7 (22.58%) Nutanix
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Datadog
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Rubrik
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
1 8 (25.81%) TCP/IP
2 6 (19.35%) Firewall
3 3 (9.68%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (9.68%) Kerberos
3 3 (9.68%) Network Security
4 1 (3.23%) DSL
4 1 (3.23%) IPFIX
4 1 (3.23%) SSL
4 1 (3.23%) tcpdump
4 1 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Subversion
1 9 (29.03%) TeamCity
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 6 (19.35%) JIRA
4 3 (9.68%) GitLab
5 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.23%) Serena SBM
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Administrator
1 8 (25.81%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (22.58%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Security Specialist
4 1 (3.23%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Hardware Specialist
4 1 (3.23%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) SIEM Specialist
4 1 (3.23%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) Kafka
2 3 (9.68%) LDAP
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Clustering
2 7 (22.58%) Replication
3 4 (12.90%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (12.90%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Insider Threat
5 1 (3.23%) MISP
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.23%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Solaris
3 4 (12.90%) Windows
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.45%) Unix
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) SIEM
2 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (35.48%) DevOps
4 10 (32.26%) High Availability
5 9 (29.03%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (29.03%) Incident Response
6 8 (25.81%) API Integration
6 8 (25.81%) Kernel Tuning
7 7 (22.58%) Threat Intelligence
8 6 (19.35%) Analytics
8 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (19.35%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (16.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 5 (16.13%) Data Security
9 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (16.13%) Security Auditing
9 5 (16.13%) Security Operations
9 5 (16.13%) Storage Management
9 5 (16.13%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Bash
3 9 (29.03%) Perl
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) CISSP
4 3 (9.68%) CEH
4 3 (9.68%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (9.68%) GIAC
5 2 (6.45%) CISM
5 2 (6.45%) Degree
5 2 (6.45%) GCIA
5 2 (6.45%) GCIH
6 1 (3.23%) CISA
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) GCFA
6 1 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (3.23%) OSCP
6 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) GDPR
2 7 (22.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (9.68%) NIST
4 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) NFS
3 4 (12.90%) Veritas File System
3 4 (12.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.23%) Docker
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (32.26%) Ansible
2 8 (25.81%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (22.58%) Tivoli
4 5 (16.13%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (16.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (12.90%) logstash
6 3 (9.68%) Control-M
6 3 (9.68%) FortiGate
6 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (9.68%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (6.45%) Netcool
8 1 (3.23%) Data Guard
8 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (3.23%) Kibana
8 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
8 1 (3.23%) Nessus
8 1 (3.23%) OpenVAS
8 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) Splunk
2 13 (41.94%) IBM
3 10 (32.26%) Qualys
4 9 (29.03%) CyberArk
4 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
4 9 (29.03%) VMware
5 8 (25.81%) SaltStack
6 6 (19.35%) Palo Alto
7 5 (16.13%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (16.13%) EMC
7 5 (16.13%) ServiceNow
8 4 (12.90%) Cisco
9 3 (9.68%) ArcSight
9 3 (9.68%) BMC
9 3 (9.68%) LogRhythm
9 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
9 3 (9.68%) Oracle
10 1 (3.23%) Carbon Black
10 1 (3.23%) Exabeam
10 1 (3.23%) Rapid7