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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 375 424
Rank change year-on-year +35 +49 +137
Contract jobs citing QRadar 21 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.081% 0.058%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.99% 0.56% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £400 £388 £613
25th Percentile £437 £425 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -35.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £513 -
90th Percentile £659 £550 £713
England median daily rate £541 £488 £650
% change year-on-year +10.87% -25.00% -

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 2,115 2,322 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.79% 14.52% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,552 2,413
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.94% -6.31%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £700
90th Percentile £716 £750 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 36
10th Percentile £21.45 - £25.71
25th Percentile £26.19 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £61.44 £61.25 £71.25
90th Percentile £63.95 £102.40 £87.03
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.33% -28.57% +119.57%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +6 2 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
1 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
2 4 (19.05%) DNS
3 3 (14.29%) Network Security
3 3 (14.29%) VPN
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) Subversion
1 4 (19.05%) TeamCity
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Snyk
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Local Government
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Security Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Management Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Operations
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Security
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Clustering
1 4 (19.05%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Solaris
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Information Security
2 9 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 9 (42.86%) SIEM
3 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 7 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (19.05%) API Integration
5 4 (19.05%) Data Security
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (19.05%) High Availability
5 4 (19.05%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (19.05%) Risk Register
5 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (19.05%) SABSA
5 4 (19.05%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Perl
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) CISSP
2 7 (33.33%) CISM
3 6 (28.57%) CISA
3 6 (28.57%) Degree
4 4 (19.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.76%) CEH
7 1 (4.76%) GIAC
7 1 (4.76%) ISACA
7 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.76%) OSCP
7 1 (4.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (47.62%) GDPR
2 8 (38.10%) NIST
3 6 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (19.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (19.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) NFS
1 4 (19.05%) Veritas File System
1 4 (19.05%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) CSIRT
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.52%) logstash
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Splunk
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 7 (33.33%) Qualys
4 5 (23.81%) Cisco
4 5 (23.81%) CyberArk
5 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
5 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
5 4 (19.05%) SaltStack
5 4 (19.05%) Tenable
5 4 (19.05%) VMware
6 3 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (9.52%) Carbon Black
7 2 (9.52%) Darktrace
7 2 (9.52%) Exabeam
7 2 (9.52%) Proofpoint
7 2 (9.52%) Rapid7
7 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
7 2 (9.52%) Tanium
7 2 (9.52%) Veracode
7 2 (9.52%) Zscaler