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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 335 379
Rank change year-on-year -51 +44 +124
Contract jobs citing QRadar 8 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.050% 0.14% 0.076%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.33% 0.90% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £348 - £419
25th Percentile £413 £425 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £503 £630
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% -20.24% +14.55%
75th Percentile £650 £633 £925
90th Percentile £770 £656 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 2,405 2,008 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.12% 15.34% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 1,347 1,676
10th Percentile £350 £371 £316
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -9.47%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £650
90th Percentile £725 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 34
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.61 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.02
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +42.94% -
75th Percentile £63.32 £71.19 £58.56
90th Percentile £64.65 £110.30 £61.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +107.69% -35.00% -23.27%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -11 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 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) BGP
5 1 (12.50%) IPsec
5 1 (12.50%) OSPF
5 1 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) gRPC
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) YARA
2 1 (12.50%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Security Operations
1 7 (87.50%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) SOAR
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Programme Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) NFS
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas File System
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Fluentd
1 2 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (12.50%) RSA Archer
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Qualys
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Varonis
3 1 (12.50%) Carbon Black
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Okta
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) SaltStack
3 1 (12.50%) Sophos
3 1 (12.50%) Tenable
3 1 (12.50%) VMware