QRadar Contract Job Trends in Essex

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QRadar 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.29% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £425 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 14 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 4.05% 4.13% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £404 £299 £179
25th Percentile £422 £401 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £466 £288
Median % change year-on-year +11.53% +61.89% -44.93%
75th Percentile £553 £510 £400
90th Percentile £558 £572 £490
East of England median daily rate £495 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £55.50 - £40.00
East of England median hourly rate £60.81 £66.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.56% +66.25% -18.37%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in Essex

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing QRadar

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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

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