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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 379 480
Rank change year-on-year +42 +101 +73
Contract jobs citing QRadar 16 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.067% 0.048%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 0.55% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 11
10th Percentile £405 £419 £400
25th Percentile £425 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% -3.85% +15.04%
75th Percentile £628 £925 £819
90th Percentile £654 - £950
England median daily rate £500 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +30.00%

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 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -3 3 £670 +7.20% 1
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) GitHub
2 6 (37.50%) Nutanix
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Datadog
6 1 (6.25%) IaaS
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Rubrik
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
1 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
2 3 (18.75%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Subversion
1 8 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 6 (37.50%) Git
3 4 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.25%) Serena SBM
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Administrator
1 7 (43.75%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (6.25%) Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Backup Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Hardware Specialist
2 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Senior
2 1 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Clustering
2 7 (43.75%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (6.25%) Insider Threat
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
1 8 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (50.00%) High Availability
3 7 (43.75%) API Integration
3 7 (43.75%) Kernel Tuning
4 6 (37.50%) SIEM
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Storage Management
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (25.00%) Data Security
6 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (25.00%) Security Auditing
7 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (18.75%) Security Hardening
7 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
7 3 (18.75%) Threat Detection
7 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 2 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Bash
2 8 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) GIAC
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) GCFA
3 1 (6.25%) GCIA
3 1 (6.25%) GCIH
3 1 (6.25%) OSCP
3 1 (6.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) GDPR
1 7 (43.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) NFS
3 3 (18.75%) Veritas File System
3 3 (18.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
1 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Satellite
2 6 (37.50%) Tivoli
3 5 (31.25%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (31.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Control-M
4 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
4 2 (12.50%) logstash
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (6.25%) Netcool
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Splunk
2 8 (50.00%) CyberArk
2 8 (50.00%) IBM
2 8 (50.00%) Qualys
2 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (43.75%) SaltStack
4 5 (31.25%) EMC
4 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (18.75%) Cisco
6 2 (12.50%) BMC
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle
6 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
7 1 (6.25%) LogRhythm
7 1 (6.25%) SAP
7 1 (6.25%) Serena
7 1 (6.25%) Sybase