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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 342 380
Rank change year-on-year -16 +38 +146
Contract jobs citing QRadar 14 21 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.098% 0.15% 0.082%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 1.02% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 14
10th Percentile £413 £400 £473
25th Percentile £444 £425 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -32.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £622 £639 £925
90th Percentile £650 £658 -
England median daily rate £538 £525 £663
% change year-on-year +2.38% -20.75% +3.92%

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 2,236 2,068 2,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.59% 14.76% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 1,359 1,809
10th Percentile £350 £360 £325
25th Percentile £429 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £675
90th Percentile £724 £791 £750
England median daily rate £507 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.48% -2.33% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 29
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.55 £16.86
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £25.71
Median hourly rate £53.25 £29.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year +83.62% -23.99% +50.48%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.99 £104.80 £71.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +19.95%

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 18 January 2026.

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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
3 4 (28.57%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Subversion
1 4 (28.57%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (28.57%) Local Government
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
1 4 (28.57%) Lead
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) gRPC
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Regular Expression
2 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Clustering
1 4 (28.57%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) YARA
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Solaris
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) SIEM
2 7 (50.00%) Information Security
3 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
4 5 (35.71%) Security Operations
5 4 (28.57%) API Integration
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (28.57%) Data Security
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (28.57%) High Availability
5 4 (28.57%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (28.57%) Risk Register
5 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 4 (28.57%) SABSA
5 4 (28.57%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Bash
1 4 (28.57%) Perl
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISA
1 4 (28.57%) CISM
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) GDPR
2 5 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (28.57%) NIST
3 4 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) NFS
1 4 (28.57%) Veritas File System
1 4 (28.57%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) CSIRT
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (14.29%) Fluentd
2 2 (14.29%) logstash
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Splunk
2 7 (50.00%) Qualys
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) CyberArk
4 4 (28.57%) Fortinet
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 4 (28.57%) SaltStack
4 4 (28.57%) VMware
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco
5 2 (14.29%) Google
5 2 (14.29%) Varonis
6 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (7.14%) Sophos