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 2 September 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
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 320 331
Rank change year-on-year -75 +11 +43
Contract jobs citing Qualys 47 51 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.55% 0.83% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 31
10th Percentile £464 £303 £425
25th Percentile £513 £384 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £540
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -9.72% -15.95%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £575
90th Percentile £729 £535 £625
England median daily rate £550 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.00% -15.47%

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 8,592 6,139 7,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 46.24% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,596 3,974 4,672
10th Percentile £343 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 126 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -12.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.69 £63.22
90th Percentile £85.04 £63.75 £78.25
England median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -16.17% -27.71%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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
South London - 2 £600 -
West London -16 1 £500 +42.86% 1
Central London -17 1 £525 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) Azure
2 21 (44.68%) AWS
3 11 (23.40%) Entra ID
3 11 (23.40%) GCP
4 9 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Control Tower
6 3 (6.38%) GitHub
7 2 (4.26%) Akamai
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 5 (10.64%) VPN
3 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.38%) DNS
5 2 (4.26%) Internet
5 2 (4.26%) VLAN
6 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Snyk
2 3 (6.38%) Burp Suite
3 2 (4.26%) GitLab
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Senior
2 8 (17.02%) Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Security Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Security Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Vulnerability Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Security Architect
7 3 (6.38%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
7 3 (6.38%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Messaging Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Security Posture
2 8 (17.02%) CMDB
3 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.91%) Windows
2 13 (27.66%) 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 Server 2019
7 1 (2.13%) Unix
7 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) Vulnerability Management
2 23 (48.94%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (40.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 18 (38.30%) Security Operations
5 17 (36.17%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 14 (29.79%) SIEM
7 12 (25.53%) Cloud Security
8 11 (23.40%) Incident Response
9 10 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (19.15%) Risk Management
10 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (19.15%) Threat Intelligence
11 8 (17.02%) DevOps
11 8 (17.02%) Penetration Testing
11 8 (17.02%) Roadmaps
11 8 (17.02%) Security Architecture
12 6 (12.77%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
13 5 (10.64%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) PowerShell
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) Bicep
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) CISM
1 11 (23.40%) CISSP
2 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.38%) CISA
4 3 (6.38%) CRISC
4 3 (6.38%) GIAC
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) CEH
5 2 (4.26%) GPEN
5 2 (4.26%) ISSAP
5 2 (4.26%) OSCP
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (2.13%) CCSP
6 1 (2.13%) GCIH
6 1 (2.13%) GSEC
6 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (25.53%) NIST
2 3 (6.38%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.13%) NCSC
4 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.38%) Docker
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Nessus
2 5 (10.64%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.38%) QRadar
4 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (2.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (63.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (48.94%) Tenable
3 15 (31.91%) CrowdStrike
4 14 (29.79%) Splunk
5 13 (27.66%) Rapid7
6 12 (25.53%) ServiceNow
7 5 (10.64%) Google
7 5 (10.64%) Okta
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%) Citrix
10 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
10 2 (4.26%) Sophos
10 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
11 1 (2.13%) Progress
11 1 (2.13%) Varonis