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 5 August 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 329 337
Rank change year-on-year -56 +8 +63
Contract jobs citing Qualys 47 51 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.82% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 29
10th Percentile £425 £305 £424
25th Percentile £500 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £526 £575
90th Percentile £669 £598 £650
England median daily rate £534 £498 £494
% change year-on-year +7.29% +0.76% -10.23%

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 8,453 6,245 6,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 45.85% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,507 4,075 4,770
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £512 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 121 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.69 £22.50 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £58.21 £43.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 3 £525 -0.05% 2
West London -22 2 £500 +42.86%
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 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) Azure
2 23 (48.94%) AWS
3 12 (25.53%) Entra ID
4 9 (19.15%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (19.15%) GCP
5 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (4.26%) Akamai
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
7 2 (4.26%) SaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Firewall
1 5 (10.64%) VPN
2 4 (8.51%) Network Security
2 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.38%) DNS
4 2 (4.26%) Internet
5 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Snyk
2 3 (6.38%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Finance
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Senior
2 9 (19.15%) Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Security Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Security Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
5 4 (8.51%) Vulnerability Specialist
6 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Security Specialist
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Security Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.13%) Kafka
2 1 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.13%) REST
2 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) CMDB
2 8 (17.02%) Security Posture
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) BYOD
6 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Windows
2 12 (25.53%) Windows Server
3 9 (19.15%) Linux
4 8 (17.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.51%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) Vulnerability Management
2 19 (40.43%) SIEM
3 18 (38.30%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (38.30%) Security Operations
4 13 (27.66%) Cloud Security
4 13 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (27.66%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 11 (23.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 9 (19.15%) DevOps
6 9 (19.15%) Incident Response
6 9 (19.15%) Security Architecture
7 8 (17.02%) DevSecOps
7 8 (17.02%) Risk Management
8 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
8 7 (14.89%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.89%) Roadmaps
8 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (14.89%) Threat Intelligence
9 6 (12.77%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) PowerShell
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) Bicep
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) CISM
1 14 (29.79%) CISSP
2 6 (12.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (12.77%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.51%) CCSP
4 3 (6.38%) CISA
4 3 (6.38%) CRISC
4 3 (6.38%) GIAC
5 2 (4.26%) CEH
5 2 (4.26%) GPEN
5 2 (4.26%) ISSAP
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) OSCP
6 1 (2.13%) GCIH
6 1 (2.13%) GSEC
6 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) NIST
2 10 (21.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (10.64%) SOC 2
4 3 (6.38%) GDPR
5 2 (4.26%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Ansible
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Nessus
3 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.38%) QRadar
4 1 (2.13%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (53.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (44.68%) Tenable
3 18 (38.30%) Splunk
4 14 (29.79%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (25.53%) ServiceNow
6 11 (23.40%) Rapid7
7 8 (17.02%) Okta
8 4 (8.51%) Google
8 4 (8.51%) Ivanti
8 4 (8.51%) Veracode
9 3 (6.38%) Cisco
9 3 (6.38%) Oracle
9 3 (6.38%) TOWER Software
10 2 (4.26%) Sophos
11 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
11 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
11 1 (2.13%) Progress
11 1 (2.13%) Varonis
11 1 (2.13%) VMware
11 1 (2.13%) Zscaler