Qualys Contract Job Trends in London

Qualys
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Qualys products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Qualys over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Qualys, Inc.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 313 354
Rank change year-on-year -56 +41 +80
Contract jobs citing Qualys 44 42 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.73% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 30
10th Percentile £418 £413 £410
25th Percentile £503 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +5.56% -25.00%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £509
90th Percentile £722 £607 £578
England median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
England median hourly rate - £29.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -44.76% -19.54%

All Vendors
London

Qualys falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,263 5,780 7,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 44.66% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,779 3,721 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.37% -3.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £503 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 82 145
10th Percentile £18.02 £20.90 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.52 £80.43 £69.80
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Qualys relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Qualys job vacancy trend in London

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Qualys.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Qualys

Qualys
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Qualys in London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Qualys in London

Qualys
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 Qualys within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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 -9 3 £540 -1.82% 1
West London -18 3 £500 -4.76%
Qualys
England

Qualys
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 32 (72.73%) Azure
2 19 (43.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 16 (36.36%) AWS
4 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (11.36%) GCP
6 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (9.09%) Serverless
7 4 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (6.82%) GitHub
8 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
1 6 (13.64%) Network Security
2 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Snyk
2 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.27%) Git
4 1 (2.27%) git-flow
General
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Analyst
2 13 (29.55%) SOC Analyst
3 10 (22.73%) Monitoring Analyst
4 9 (20.45%) Security Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Security Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Architect
7 4 (9.09%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Security Operations Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Security Specialist
9 2 (4.55%) Server Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Site Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 2 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (4.55%) SailPoint
2 2 (4.55%) Spring
2 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.27%) OpenID
3 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.27%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.82%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.27%) BYOD
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Solaris
4 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) SIEM
2 17 (38.64%) Vulnerability Management
3 15 (34.09%) Cloud Security
4 12 (27.27%) Incident Response
4 12 (27.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 12 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 10 (22.73%) DevSecOps
6 9 (20.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 8 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.91%) DevOps
8 7 (15.91%) Threat Detection
9 6 (13.64%) Application Security
9 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.64%) Runbook
9 6 (13.64%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 4 (9.09%) Patch Management
10 4 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Kusto Query Language
2 12 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 10 (22.73%) Python
4 7 (15.91%) Bash
5 5 (11.36%) Java
6 2 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) CISSP
2 5 (11.36%) CISM
3 4 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 4 (9.09%) CCSP
3 4 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) CEH
6 1 (2.27%) CGEIT
6 1 (2.27%) CRISC
6 1 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (2.27%) GCIA
6 1 (2.27%) GCIH
6 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) GDPR
1 7 (15.91%) NIST
2 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
4 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Snort
2 2 (4.55%) Squid
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (9.09%) QRadar
4 3 (6.82%) Nessus
5 2 (4.55%) Argo
5 2 (4.55%) Grafana
5 2 (4.55%) Nexpose
5 2 (4.55%) Opsgenie
5 2 (4.55%) Suricata
6 1 (2.27%) HP Fortify
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) RSA Archer
6 1 (2.27%) SCCM
6 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) Splunk
2 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
3 16 (36.36%) CrowdStrike
4 13 (29.55%) Carbon Black
4 13 (29.55%) Tenable
5 5 (11.36%) Okta
6 4 (9.09%) Cisco
6 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
7 3 (6.82%) Google
7 3 (6.82%) Rapid7
7 3 (6.82%) Zscaler
8 2 (4.55%) Blue Coat
8 2 (4.55%) CyberArk
8 2 (4.55%) FireEye
8 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.55%) Progress
8 2 (4.55%) Varonis
8 2 (4.55%) Veracode
9 1 (2.27%) Intel
9 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds