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 6 January 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
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 320 330
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +144
Contract jobs citing Qualys 50 49 56
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.75% 0.78% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 40
10th Percentile £413 £421 £399
25th Percentile £425 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -7.69% -5.21%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £725
90th Percentile £623 £576 -
England median daily rate £523 £477 £550
% change year-on-year +9.54% -13.27% -8.33%

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 6,707 6,252 7,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.75% 43.96% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,393 3,888 4,976
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £752
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 68 108
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £15.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% -6.56% +39.86%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £59.06
90th Percentile £66.12 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +50.85%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -14 3 £350 -33.33%
Central London -10 2 £488 -11.36% 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 10 (20.00%) AWS
4 6 (12.00%) GitHub
5 5 (10.00%) GCP
5 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.00%) Cloudflare
6 4 (8.00%) OpenDNS
7 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.00%) Datadog
8 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.00%) Google Workspace
8 2 (4.00%) Pulumi
8 2 (4.00%) Serverless
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 10 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.00%) VPN
4 4 (8.00%) Network Security
5 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) DMZ
6 1 (2.00%) NAS
6 1 (2.00%) SSH
6 1 (2.00%) SSL
6 1 (2.00%) Telnet
6 1 (2.00%) VLAN
6 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Subversion
2 4 (8.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.00%) git-flow
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Snyk
General
1 7 (14.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Banking
4 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Military
4 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (46.00%) Analyst
2 19 (38.00%) SOC Analyst
3 16 (32.00%) Monitoring Analyst
4 9 (18.00%) Security Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Security Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Security Operations Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior
8 2 (4.00%) Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Lead
8 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) Regular Expression
2 2 (4.00%) Spring
2 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.00%) LDAP
3 1 (2.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) OAuth
3 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.00%) OpenID
3 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.00%) SAML
3 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Clustering
1 4 (8.00%) Replication
2 3 (6.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Linux
3 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.00%) Solaris
3 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 17 (34.00%) SIEM
3 15 (30.00%) Security Operations
4 12 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (22.00%) Incident Response
6 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (14.00%) DevOps
7 7 (14.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (10.00%) Cloud Security
9 5 (10.00%) Data Security
9 5 (10.00%) Information Security
9 5 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
9 5 (10.00%) Threat Detection
9 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 5 (10.00%) Zero Trust
10 4 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (8.00%) High Availability
10 4 (8.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 14 (28.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (22.00%) Bash
5 4 (8.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) Perl
6 2 (4.00%) Go
7 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) CISSP
2 5 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.00%) GCIA
3 3 (6.00%) GCIH
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CEH
4 2 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) CCNP
5 1 (2.00%) CISA
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CRISC
5 1 (2.00%) CSSLP
5 1 (2.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) OSCP
5 1 (2.00%) SANS
5 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) GDPR
2 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (12.00%) NIST
3 4 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.00%) GRC
4 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) NFS
2 4 (8.00%) Snort
2 4 (8.00%) Squid
2 4 (8.00%) Veritas File System
2 4 (8.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) QRadar
3 6 (12.00%) Nessus
4 5 (10.00%) Terraform
5 4 (8.00%) Ansible
5 4 (8.00%) Nexpose
5 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (8.00%) Suricata
6 2 (4.00%) Argo
6 2 (4.00%) Grafana
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.00%) Opsgenie
6 2 (4.00%) SCCM
7 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (66.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (62.00%) Splunk
3 24 (48.00%) CrowdStrike
4 20 (40.00%) Carbon Black
5 8 (16.00%) Tenable
6 7 (14.00%) Google
6 7 (14.00%) Palo Alto
7 6 (12.00%) Cisco
7 6 (12.00%) VMware
8 5 (10.00%) CyberArk
8 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
9 4 (8.00%) Blue Coat
9 4 (8.00%) FireEye
9 4 (8.00%) Rapid7
9 4 (8.00%) SaltStack
9 4 (8.00%) Zscaler
10 3 (6.00%) Varonis
11 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
12 1 (2.00%) Black Duck
12 1 (2.00%) Veracode