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 27 December 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
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 315 348
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 +142
Contract jobs citing Qualys 55 52 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.81% 0.79% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 43
10th Percentile £375 £422 £403
25th Percentile £419 £488 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £635
Median % change year-on-year - -17.32% +5.83%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £725
90th Percentile £620 £575 -
England median daily rate £520 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% -

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 6,794 6,574 7,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.27% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,429 4,108 5,195
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 68 109
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.51 £16.63
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.94% -7.33% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £64.06 £61.25
90th Percentile £67.13 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.54 £30.43 £45.21
% change year-on-year -22.65% -32.69% +69.14%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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
West London -15 3 £350 -33.33%
Central London -8 2 £488 -11.36% 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (63.64%) Azure
2 21 (38.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (25.45%) AWS
4 8 (14.55%) GCP
5 6 (10.91%) GitHub
6 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.27%) Cloudflare
7 4 (7.27%) OpenDNS
8 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) Datadog
9 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.64%) Google Workspace
9 2 (3.64%) Pulumi
9 2 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) Firewall
2 10 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 5 (9.09%) DNS
3 5 (9.09%) Network Security
3 5 (9.09%) VPN
4 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
4 3 (5.45%) WAN
5 2 (3.64%) DMZ
5 2 (3.64%) SSH
5 2 (3.64%) Telnet
5 2 (3.64%) VLAN
6 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.82%) NAS
6 1 (1.82%) SNMP
6 1 (1.82%) SSL
6 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Power BI
2 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (7.27%) Subversion
2 4 (7.27%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.64%) JIRA
3 2 (3.64%) Snyk
4 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.82%) git-flow
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 7 (12.73%) Finance
2 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.82%) Banking
3 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.82%) Military
3 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Analyst
2 19 (34.55%) SOC Analyst
3 16 (29.09%) Monitoring Analyst
4 11 (20.00%) Security Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Security Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Administrator
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (7.27%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Security Operations Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
8 2 (3.64%) Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Lead
8 2 (3.64%) Management Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Vulnerability Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) Kafka
2 2 (3.64%) Regular Expression
2 2 (3.64%) Spring
2 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.82%) LDAP
3 1 (1.82%) Middleware
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.82%) OpenID
3 1 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.82%) SAML
3 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
1 4 (7.27%) Clustering
1 4 (7.27%) Replication
2 3 (5.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (29.09%) Windows
2 9 (16.36%) Linux
3 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.91%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.09%) Solaris
5 4 (7.27%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.64%) Unix
7 1 (1.82%) CentOS
7 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 17 (30.91%) SIEM
3 16 (29.09%) Security Operations
4 15 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (23.64%) Incident Response
6 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 10 (18.18%) DevOps
7 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (14.55%) Cloud Security
8 8 (14.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 7 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (12.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 6 (10.91%) Information Security
10 6 (10.91%) Patch Management
10 6 (10.91%) Penetration Testing
10 6 (10.91%) Zero Trust
11 5 (9.09%) Data Security
11 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.09%) Threat Detection
12 4 (7.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Kusto Query Language
2 16 (29.09%) Python
3 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 12 (21.82%) Bash
5 4 (7.27%) Java
5 4 (7.27%) Perl
6 2 (3.64%) Go
7 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) CISSP
2 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.45%) GCIA
3 3 (5.45%) GCIH
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CEH
4 2 (3.64%) CISA
4 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) CCNP
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CISM
5 1 (1.82%) CRISC
5 1 (1.82%) CSSLP
5 1 (1.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) OSCP
5 1 (1.82%) SANS
5 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) GDPR
2 8 (14.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (14.55%) NIST
3 4 (7.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (5.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.64%) GRC
6 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) NFS
2 4 (7.27%) Snort
2 4 (7.27%) Squid
2 4 (7.27%) Veritas File System
2 4 (7.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.64%) Firmware
5 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Kubernetes
1 8 (14.55%) QRadar
2 7 (12.73%) Nessus
3 5 (9.09%) Ansible
3 5 (9.09%) Terraform
4 4 (7.27%) Nexpose
4 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (7.27%) Suricata
5 3 (5.45%) SCCM
6 2 (3.64%) Argo
6 2 (3.64%) Grafana
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.64%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (58.18%) Splunk
3 25 (45.45%) CrowdStrike
4 21 (38.18%) Carbon Black
5 12 (21.82%) Tenable
6 7 (12.73%) Cisco
6 7 (12.73%) Google
6 7 (12.73%) Palo Alto
6 7 (12.73%) Rapid7
7 6 (10.91%) VMware
8 5 (9.09%) CyberArk
8 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
9 4 (7.27%) Blue Coat
9 4 (7.27%) FireEye
9 4 (7.27%) SaltStack
9 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
9 4 (7.27%) Zscaler
10 3 (5.45%) Tanium
10 3 (5.45%) Varonis
11 2 (3.64%) Proofpoint