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 20 February 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 314 348
Rank change year-on-year -45 +34 +97
Contract jobs citing Qualys 46 43 49
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.72% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 35
10th Percentile £413 £408 £396
25th Percentile £475 £424 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -1.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £613 £552 £575
90th Percentile £623 £632 £650
England median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
England median hourly rate - £29.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -44.76% -19.54%

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 7,033 5,976 7,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.97% 44.11% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,620 3,728 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £315 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £674
90th Percentile £738 £755 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 76 144
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.38 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £17.59
Median hourly rate £28.30 £35.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £44.25 £61.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.73 £80.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £27.14
% change year-on-year -22.60% +13.41% -18.99%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -21 3 £500 -4.76%
Central London -11 2 £445 -25.83% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) Azure
2 19 (41.30%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (30.43%) AWS
4 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (10.87%) GCP
7 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.70%) GitHub
7 4 (8.70%) Serverless
7 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (6.52%) Cloudflare
8 3 (6.52%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
3 5 (10.87%) VPN
4 2 (4.35%) DNS
4 2 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
1 3 (6.52%) Snyk
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) Subversion
2 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.17%) git-flow
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Analyst
2 16 (34.78%) SOC Analyst
3 12 (26.09%) Monitoring Analyst
4 9 (19.57%) Security Analyst
4 9 (19.57%) Security Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Security Operations Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Administrator
8 2 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Server Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Kafka
2 2 (4.35%) REST
2 2 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 2 (4.35%) Spring
2 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
3 1 (2.17%) OAuth
3 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.17%) OpenID
3 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
1 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.35%) Clustering
2 2 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) BYOD
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) CMDB
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows
2 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.70%) Linux
4 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.52%) Solaris
5 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) SIEM
2 15 (32.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 15 (32.61%) Security Operations
3 13 (28.26%) Vulnerability Management
4 12 (26.09%) Incident Response
5 11 (23.91%) Cloud Security
6 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
7 9 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (19.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 7 (15.22%) DevOps
8 7 (15.22%) Threat Detection
9 6 (13.04%) Runbook
9 6 (13.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 5 (10.87%) DevSecOps
10 5 (10.87%) Information Security
10 5 (10.87%) Patch Management
10 5 (10.87%) Zero Trust
11 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.70%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) Kusto Query Language
2 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 13 (28.26%) Python
4 10 (21.74%) Bash
5 5 (10.87%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) Go
6 2 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.70%) CISSP
3 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.35%) GCIA
3 2 (4.35%) GCIH
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) CEH
4 1 (2.17%) CGEIT
4 1 (2.17%) CISM
4 1 (2.17%) CRISC
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) GDPR
2 8 (17.39%) NIST
3 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.17%) GRC
5 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Snort
2 3 (6.52%) Squid
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.35%) NFS
3 2 (4.35%) Veritas File System
3 2 (4.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) QRadar
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (8.70%) Nessus
5 3 (6.52%) Nexpose
5 3 (6.52%) Suricata
6 2 (4.35%) Ansible
6 2 (4.35%) Argo
6 2 (4.35%) Grafana
6 2 (4.35%) Opsgenie
6 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (4.35%) SCCM
7 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.17%) RSA Archer
7 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (52.17%) Splunk
3 20 (43.48%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (34.78%) Carbon Black
5 8 (17.39%) Tenable
6 5 (10.87%) Cisco
7 4 (8.70%) CyberArk
7 4 (8.70%) Google
7 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
7 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
7 4 (8.70%) Zscaler
8 3 (6.52%) Blue Coat
8 3 (6.52%) FireEye
8 3 (6.52%) VMware
9 2 (4.35%) Progress
9 2 (4.35%) Rapid7
9 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
9 2 (4.35%) SaltStack
9 2 (4.35%) Varonis
10 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics