QRadar Contract Job Trends in London

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 351 394
Rank change year-on-year -12 +43 +148
Contract jobs citing QRadar 17 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% 0.80% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 10
10th Percentile £401 £385 £669
25th Percentile £413 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £700
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -26.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £616 £594 £719
90th Percentile £648 £628 £925
England median daily rate £479 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -12.95% -21.43% +7.69%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,261 2,241 2,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.72% 14.87% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,471 1,999
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £682 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £768
England median daily rate £512 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 31
10th Percentile £22.35 £22.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £25.60 £23.80 £26.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.19% -53.45% +125.59%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £63.32 £104.80 £76.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in London

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing QRadar

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in London

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 8 (47.06%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub
6 2 (11.76%) GCP
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Firewall
1 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
2 5 (29.41%) VPN
3 4 (23.53%) DNS
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
1 4 (23.53%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 4 (23.53%) Local Government
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Security Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) gRPC
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Regular Expression
2 2 (11.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) YARA
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Solaris
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Information Security
1 10 (58.82%) SIEM
2 8 (47.06%) Security Operations
3 7 (41.18%) Cloud Security
4 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
5 4 (23.53%) API Integration
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) Data Security
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Register
5 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 4 (23.53%) SABSA
5 4 (23.53%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Bash
1 4 (23.53%) Perl
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
1 5 (29.41%) CISA
1 5 (29.41%) CISM
1 5 (29.41%) CISSP
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) GDPR
2 6 (35.29%) NIST
3 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (23.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) NFS
1 4 (23.53%) Veritas File System
1 4 (23.53%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
1 4 (23.53%) CSIRT
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (11.76%) Fluentd
2 2 (11.76%) logstash
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Splunk
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Qualys
3 4 (23.53%) CyberArk
3 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 4 (23.53%) SaltStack
3 4 (23.53%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco
5 2 (11.76%) Darktrace
5 2 (11.76%) Google
5 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.76%) Varonis
5 2 (11.76%) Zscaler
6 1 (5.88%) Carbon Black
6 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (5.88%) Proofpoint
6 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
6 1 (5.88%) Tanium
6 1 (5.88%) Veracode