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 17 September 2025, 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 331 374
Rank change year-on-year +23 +43 +179
Contract jobs citing Qualys 54 57 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.87% 0.81% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 63
10th Percentile £304 £425 £500
25th Percentile £397 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £540 £623
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -13.25% +13.18%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £725
90th Percentile £575 £605 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +14.29%

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 6,195 7,007 8,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.12% 43.39% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 4,543 6,289
10th Percentile £325 £313 £315
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 113
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.88
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Qualys 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 2 £480 -12.68% 2
West London - 2 £350 -
Qualys
England

Qualys
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (46.30%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (18.52%) AWS
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
4 7 (12.96%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.56%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.56%) OpenDNS
6 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
6 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.70%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.85%) IaaS
8 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) Network Security
3 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 5 (9.26%) DNS
5 4 (7.41%) SSL
5 4 (7.41%) VPN
5 4 (7.41%) WAN
6 3 (5.56%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.70%) DMZ
7 2 (3.70%) SSH
7 2 (3.70%) Telnet
7 2 (3.70%) VLAN
8 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.85%) NAS
8 1 (1.85%) SNMP
8 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
1 4 (7.41%) Subversion
1 4 (7.41%) TeamCity
2 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Snyk
General
1 8 (14.81%) Finance
2 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Analyst
2 10 (18.52%) Security Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
4 8 (14.81%) Monitoring Analyst
5 6 (11.11%) Security Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Administrator
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Consultant
7 3 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Management Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) REST
2 1 (1.85%) LDAP
2 1 (1.85%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Clustering
1 4 (7.41%) Replication
2 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Windows
2 8 (14.81%) Linux
3 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 4 (7.41%) Solaris
5 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.85%) CentOS
7 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.85%) Unix
7 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
2 14 (25.93%) Security Operations
3 13 (24.07%) Incident Response
4 12 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 11 (20.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 10 (18.52%) SIEM
7 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 9 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (14.81%) Penetration Testing
9 7 (12.96%) DevOps
9 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 6 (11.11%) Information Security
10 6 (11.11%) Patch Management
11 5 (9.26%) Data Security
11 5 (9.26%) Risk Assessment
11 5 (9.26%) Zero Trust
12 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) Python
2 14 (25.93%) Bash
3 11 (20.37%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.41%) Perl
6 1 (1.85%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) CISSP
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) CISA
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.56%) CISM
5 3 (5.56%) GCIA
5 3 (5.56%) GCIH
6 2 (3.70%) CCNP
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.85%) CCNA
7 1 (1.85%) CEH
7 1 (1.85%) CRISC
7 1 (1.85%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.85%) OSCP
7 1 (1.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) GDPR
2 8 (14.81%) NIST
3 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (11.11%) PCI DSS
4 4 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (7.41%) SOC 2
5 3 (5.56%) HIPAA
6 2 (3.70%) GRC
7 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) NFS
2 4 (7.41%) Veritas File System
2 4 (7.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) Snort
3 3 (5.56%) Squid
4 2 (3.70%) Firmware
5 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Nessus
2 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.11%) QRadar
4 5 (9.26%) Ansible
5 4 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (7.41%) Terraform
6 3 (5.56%) HP Fortify
6 3 (5.56%) Nexpose
6 3 (5.56%) Suricata
7 2 (3.70%) SCCM
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (44.44%) Splunk
2 20 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 18 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
4 15 (27.78%) Tenable
5 13 (24.07%) Carbon Black
6 7 (12.96%) Cisco
6 7 (12.96%) Rapid7
7 6 (11.11%) Palo Alto
7 6 (11.11%) ServiceNow
8 5 (9.26%) CyberArk
8 5 (9.26%) Google
8 5 (9.26%) Red Hat
8 5 (9.26%) VMware
9 4 (7.41%) SaltStack
10 3 (5.56%) Blue Coat
10 3 (5.56%) FireEye
10 3 (5.56%) Proofpoint
10 3 (5.56%) Tanium
10 3 (5.56%) Zscaler
11 2 (3.70%) Veracode