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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 307 352
Rank change year-on-year -72 +45 +75
Contract jobs citing Qualys 45 47 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.57% 0.80% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 33
10th Percentile £425 £304 £420
25th Percentile £506 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £529 £550
90th Percentile £725 £607 £725
England median daily rate £540 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +12.73% +6.44% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
England median hourly rate - £29.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - -38.95% -

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 7,953 5,846 7,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.27% 45.35% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,207 3,788 5,008
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -3.17%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £508 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 110 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.78 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.81% +16.70% -21.32%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.04 £24.65
% change year-on-year +34.41% +5.64% -33.38%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -13 2 £538 -8.55% 3
West London -18 2 £500 - 2
South London - 2 £600 -
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 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) Azure
2 21 (46.67%) AWS
3 14 (31.11%) Entra ID
4 11 (24.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (13.33%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.67%) Serverless
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Network Security
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) Internet
2 2 (4.44%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Snyk
2 3 (6.67%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Security Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) Security Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
6 4 (8.89%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Security Specialist
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (4.44%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 6 (13.33%) CMDB
3 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) BYOD
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Windows
2 10 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.56%) Linux
4 6 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.89%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (8.89%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.44%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 22 (48.89%) SIEM
3 20 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
4 19 (42.22%) Security Operations
5 15 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 13 (28.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 11 (24.44%) DevOps
7 11 (24.44%) Incident Response
7 11 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (22.22%) DevSecOps
9 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 9 (20.00%) Security Architecture
9 9 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 8 (17.78%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (17.78%) Threat Intelligence
11 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.56%) Risk Management
11 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.78%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) Bicep
4 2 (4.44%) Bash
4 2 (4.44%) Java
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) CISM
1 11 (24.44%) CISSP
2 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 6 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.89%) CCSP
6 3 (6.67%) CISA
6 3 (6.67%) CRISC
6 3 (6.67%) GIAC
7 2 (4.44%) CEH
7 2 (4.44%) GPEN
7 2 (4.44%) ISSAP
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.44%) OSCP
8 1 (2.22%) GCIH
8 1 (2.22%) GSEC
8 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (24.44%) NIST
2 8 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (11.11%) SOC 2
4 4 (8.89%) GDPR
5 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.22%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 5 (11.11%) Ansible
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.89%) Nessus
3 4 (8.89%) QRadar
4 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.22%) HP Fortify
5 1 (2.22%) RSA Archer
5 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (44.44%) Tenable
3 17 (37.78%) Splunk
4 15 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (28.89%) ServiceNow
6 10 (22.22%) Rapid7
7 9 (20.00%) Okta
8 4 (8.89%) Google
9 3 (6.67%) Cisco
9 3 (6.67%) Progress
9 3 (6.67%) TOWER Software
9 3 (6.67%) Veracode
10 2 (4.44%) CyberArk
10 2 (4.44%) Ivanti
10 2 (4.44%) Oracle
10 2 (4.44%) Sophos
11 1 (2.22%) Carbon Black
11 1 (2.22%) Varonis
11 1 (2.22%) VMware
11 1 (2.22%) Zscaler