QRadar Contracts in London

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 382 476
Rank change year-on-year +45 +94 +80
Contract jobs citing QRadar 18 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.062% 0.051%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.89% 0.47% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 12
10th Percentile £393 £419 -
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% -15.38% +6.12%
75th Percentile £607 £665 £700
90th Percentile £699 £925 £711
England median daily rate £500 £550 £608
% change year-on-year -9.09% -9.47% +5.65%

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 2,030 2,351 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.63% 13.35% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,343 1,700 2,995
10th Percentile £351 £335 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £713
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 48
10th Percentile £26.45 £20.00 £22.43
25th Percentile £27.31 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £42.25 £25.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.00% -60.94% +167.67%
75th Percentile £57.69 £41.63 £82.63
90th Percentile £63.03 £69.13 £90.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% -43.18% +150.00%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in London

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QRadar in London

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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
Central London 0 4 £670 +21.82% 3
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 4 (22.22%) GitHub
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) Nutanix
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.56%) Datadog
7 1 (5.56%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Subversion
1 4 (22.22%) TeamCity
2 3 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Snyk
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Administrator
1 4 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Management Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Hardware Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Head of Security
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Solaris
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Security Operations
2 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
2 7 (38.89%) Information Security
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) SIEM
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) API Integration
5 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (22.22%) High Availability
5 4 (22.22%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 3 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Security Auditing
6 3 (16.67%) Storage Management
6 3 (16.67%) Threat Detection
7 2 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Perl
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CISM
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CISA
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) GIAC
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CEH
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) GCFA
4 1 (5.56%) GCIA
4 1 (5.56%) GCIH
4 1 (5.56%) ISACA
4 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.56%) OSCP
4 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 3 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) NFS
3 1 (5.56%) Veritas File System
3 1 (5.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (22.22%) Tivoli
2 3 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
3 2 (11.11%) logstash
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (11.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (5.56%) Control-M
4 1 (5.56%) Netcool
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Splunk
2 6 (33.33%) Qualys
3 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 5 (27.78%) CyberArk
3 5 (27.78%) IBM
3 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 4 (22.22%) SaltStack
4 4 (22.22%) Tenable
4 4 (22.22%) VMware
5 3 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (16.67%) EMC
6 2 (11.11%) Carbon Black
6 2 (11.11%) Darktrace
6 2 (11.11%) Exabeam
6 2 (11.11%) Proofpoint
6 2 (11.11%) Rapid7
6 2 (11.11%) Tanium
6 2 (11.11%) Veracode