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 December 2025, 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 331 362
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 +150
Contract jobs citing Qualys 52 48 56
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.79% 0.70% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 45
10th Percentile £339 £414 £410
25th Percentile £416 £470 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £725
90th Percentile - £575 -
England median daily rate £515 £490 £618
% change year-on-year +5.14% -20.65% +2.92%

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 6,589 6,854 8,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.59% 44.05% 40.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,274 4,315 5,537
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £764
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 62 109
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.64 £16.97
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -5.81% +51.34%
75th Percentile £41.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.32 £91.33 £86.30
England median hourly rate £24.31 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.20% -26.97% +71.15%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -2 3 £526 -4.45% 1
West London - 2 £350 -
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 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (63.46%) Azure
2 21 (40.38%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (17.31%) GCP
4 8 (15.38%) AWS
5 7 (13.46%) GitHub
6 5 (9.62%) Cloudflare
6 5 (9.62%) OpenDNS
7 3 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.85%) Datadog
8 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.85%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.85%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (9.62%) DNS
4 4 (7.69%) Network Security
5 3 (5.77%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.77%) WAN
6 2 (3.85%) DMZ
6 2 (3.85%) SSH
6 2 (3.85%) Telnet
6 2 (3.85%) VLAN
6 2 (3.85%) VPN
7 1 (1.92%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.92%) NAS
7 1 (1.92%) SNMP
7 1 (1.92%) SSL
7 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Power BI
2 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) Subversion
2 4 (7.69%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
4 2 (3.85%) JIRA
4 2 (3.85%) Snyk
5 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.92%) git-flow
5 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (15.38%) Finance
2 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Analyst
2 18 (34.62%) SOC Analyst
3 15 (28.85%) Monitoring Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) Security Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Security Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Operations Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Security Operations Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Administrator
7 4 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (7.69%) Senior
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Network Security Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Management Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Vulnerability Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) REST
2 2 (3.85%) Regular Expression
2 2 (3.85%) Spring
2 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.92%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) LDAP
3 1 (1.92%) Middleware
3 1 (1.92%) OAuth
3 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.92%) OpenID
3 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.92%) SAML
3 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Clustering
1 4 (7.69%) Replication
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Windows
2 8 (15.38%) Linux
3 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.62%) Solaris
5 4 (7.69%) Mac OS
5 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.85%) Unix
7 1 (1.92%) CentOS
7 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.92%) VMS
7 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 17 (32.69%) Security Operations
3 14 (26.92%) Vulnerability Management
4 13 (25.00%) SIEM
5 12 (23.08%) Incident Response
6 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
6 9 (17.31%) DevOps
6 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (13.46%) Zero Trust
9 6 (11.54%) Information Security
9 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.62%) Hyperautomation
10 5 (9.62%) Network Architecture
10 5 (9.62%) SOAR
11 4 (7.69%) High Availability
11 4 (7.69%) Kernel Tuning
11 4 (7.69%) Project Delivery
11 4 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) Kusto Query Language
2 15 (28.85%) Python
3 12 (23.08%) Bash
3 12 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.69%) Perl
5 3 (5.77%) Java
6 2 (3.85%) Go
7 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) CISSP
2 4 (7.69%) CISA
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.77%) CISM
3 3 (5.77%) GCIA
3 3 (5.77%) GCIH
4 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) CCNP
5 1 (1.92%) CEH
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CRISC
5 1 (1.92%) CSSLP
5 1 (1.92%) OSCP
5 1 (1.92%) SANS
5 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) GDPR
2 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.62%) NIST
3 4 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 4 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (3.85%) GRC
5 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Docker
2 5 (9.62%) Snort
2 5 (9.62%) Squid
3 4 (7.69%) NFS
3 4 (7.69%) Veritas File System
3 4 (7.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.85%) Firmware
6 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.38%) Nessus
3 7 (13.46%) QRadar
4 5 (9.62%) Ansible
4 5 (9.62%) Nexpose
4 5 (9.62%) Suricata
5 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (7.69%) Terraform
6 3 (5.77%) SCCM
7 2 (3.85%) Argo
7 2 (3.85%) Grafana
7 2 (3.85%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.92%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (67.31%) Splunk
2 29 (55.77%) Microsoft
3 27 (51.92%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (42.31%) Carbon Black
5 11 (21.15%) Tenable
6 8 (15.38%) Google
6 8 (15.38%) Palo Alto
7 7 (13.46%) Cisco
7 7 (13.46%) Rapid7
8 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
8 6 (11.54%) VMware
9 5 (9.62%) Blue Coat
9 5 (9.62%) CyberArk
9 5 (9.62%) FireEye
9 5 (9.62%) Red Hat
9 5 (9.62%) Zscaler
10 4 (7.69%) SaltStack
10 4 (7.69%) Tanium
11 3 (5.77%) Proofpoint
11 3 (5.77%) Veracode