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 3 June 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
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 298 341
Rank change year-on-year -81 +43 +84
Contract jobs citing Qualys 47 45 52
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.82% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 32
10th Percentile £423 £387 £420
25th Percentile £511 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £463
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% +4.05% -15.91%
75th Percentile £628 £538 £522
90th Percentile £718 £607 £738
England median daily rate £550 £476 £450
% change year-on-year +15.55% +5.78% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
England median hourly rate - £29.00 -

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 7,650 5,486 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.71% 45.46% 41.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,034 3,560 4,935
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +1.40% -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 102 134
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.93
25th Percentile £23.33 £22.33 £17.20
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -13.45%
75th Percentile £51.50 £43.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.88 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £23.80
% change year-on-year +19.82% +13.97% -39.01%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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
West London -25 3 £500 -4.76%
Central London -20 2 £538 -17.31% 1
South London - 2 £600 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (61.70%) Azure
2 25 (53.19%) AWS
3 14 (29.79%) Entra ID
4 13 (27.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (12.77%) GCP
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (10.64%) Serverless
8 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (8.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (6.38%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Network Security
2 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.51%) VPN
3 2 (4.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Snyk
2 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Analyst
2 10 (21.28%) Security Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Security Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Lead
6 4 (8.51%) Security Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
6 4 (8.51%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Security Specialist
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Security Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (6.38%) Kafka
3 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Security Posture
2 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) CMDB
4 4 (8.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) BYOD
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.91%) Windows
2 10 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 6 (12.77%) Linux
4 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.51%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) Vulnerability Management
2 26 (55.32%) SIEM
3 20 (42.55%) Security Operations
4 19 (40.43%) Cloud Security
5 15 (31.91%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (25.53%) DevOps
6 12 (25.53%) Incident Response
6 12 (25.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (23.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
8 9 (19.15%) DevSecOps
9 8 (17.02%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.89%) Security Architecture
10 7 (14.89%) Threat Intelligence
11 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
11 6 (12.77%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.15%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) Bash
3 4 (8.51%) Bicep
4 3 (6.38%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) CISSP
2 8 (17.02%) CISM
3 7 (14.89%) AWS Certification
4 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
5 4 (8.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.51%) CCSP
5 4 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.26%) ISSAP
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CEH
7 1 (2.13%) CGEIT
7 1 (2.13%) CISA
7 1 (2.13%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) GCIH
7 1 (2.13%) GIAC
7 1 (2.13%) GSEC
7 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.13%) PMP
7 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) NIST
2 7 (14.89%) GDPR
2 7 (14.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (10.64%) SOC 2
4 2 (4.26%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.13%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Terraform
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.77%) QRadar
3 4 (8.51%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.38%) Nessus
5 1 (2.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (2.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (42.55%) Tenable
3 17 (36.17%) Splunk
4 13 (27.66%) CrowdStrike
5 11 (23.40%) ServiceNow
6 9 (19.15%) Okta
7 8 (17.02%) Rapid7
8 5 (10.64%) Cisco
9 4 (8.51%) Google
10 3 (6.38%) Carbon Black
10 3 (6.38%) Progress
10 3 (6.38%) Sophos
10 3 (6.38%) TOWER Software
10 3 (6.38%) Varonis
11 2 (4.26%) CyberArk
11 2 (4.26%) Veracode
12 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
12 1 (2.13%) Ivanti
12 1 (2.13%) Oracle
12 1 (2.13%) Zscaler