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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 339 376
Rank change year-on-year -30 +37 +132
Contract jobs citing QRadar 10 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.066% 0.15% 0.076%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.42% 1.02% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 14
10th Percentile £364 - £419
25th Percentile £413 £425 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £668
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -24.72% +6.80%
75th Percentile £650 £633 £925
90th Percentile £740 £656 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £630
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.70% +0.80%

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 2,355 2,059 2,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.43% 15.16% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,619 1,363 1,760
10th Percentile £350 £365 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.57%
75th Percentile £637 £680 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.93 £21.78 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +15.75% +23.49%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £106.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +94.65% -40.57% -10.71%

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 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in London

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the London region over the 6 months to 15 February 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
Central London -10 1 £300 -55.22% 1
QRadar
England

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
3 3 (30.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) BGP
5 1 (10.00%) IPsec
5 1 (10.00%) OSPF
5 1 (10.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Administrator
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) gRPC
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Regular Expression
2 2 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
1 2 (20.00%) YARA
2 1 (10.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) SIEM
2 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 4 (40.00%) SOAR
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Security
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) API Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) Kernel Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) CISA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISM
3 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) NFS
1 2 (20.00%) Veritas File System
1 2 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Fluentd
2 2 (20.00%) logstash
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (10.00%) CSIRT
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) RSA Archer
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Splunk
2 6 (60.00%) Qualys
3 3 (30.00%) CyberArk
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Google
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) SaltStack
4 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (20.00%) Varonis
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (10.00%) Carbon Black
5 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (10.00%) Okta
5 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (10.00%) Sophos
5 1 (10.00%) Tenable