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 19 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 318 341
Rank change year-on-year -76 +23 +56
Contract jobs citing Qualys 48 49 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.79% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 32
10th Percentile £443 £301 £425
25th Percentile £508 £367 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £488 £533
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -8.45% -18.08%
75th Percentile £634 £525 £575
90th Percentile £736 £536 £623
England median daily rate £539 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +9.67% -1.75% -14.24%

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 8,550 6,192 7,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.59% 46.06% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,571 4,019 4,732
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.68%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 127 87
10th Percentile £18.14 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.70 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £58.31 £38.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £75.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%

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 19 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 19 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 -11 2 £625 +19.05%
South London - 2 £600 - 1
West London -26 1 £500 +42.86%
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 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) AWS
3 13 (27.08%) Entra ID
4 8 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (16.67%) GCP
5 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (4.17%) Akamai
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub
7 2 (4.17%) SaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Serverless
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (10.42%) VPN
3 4 (8.33%) Network Security
3 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.25%) DNS
5 2 (4.17%) Internet
5 2 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Snyk
2 3 (6.25%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.25%) Finance
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Banking
3 4 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Senior
2 8 (16.67%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Architect
2 8 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 7 (14.58%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Lead
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
4 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Security Specialist
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) CMDB
1 8 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.17%) Windows
2 12 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (18.75%) Linux
4 8 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.33%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (8.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) Vulnerability Management
2 21 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (37.50%) SIEM
4 17 (35.42%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 16 (33.33%) Security Operations
6 14 (29.17%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 13 (27.08%) Cloud Security
8 12 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (20.83%) Incident Response
10 9 (18.75%) DevOps
10 9 (18.75%) Security Architecture
10 9 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
11 8 (16.67%) DevSecOps
11 8 (16.67%) Risk Management
12 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
12 7 (14.58%) Penetration Testing
12 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
12 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) PowerShell
2 12 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (2.08%) Bash
4 1 (2.08%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) CISM
1 13 (27.08%) CISSP
2 6 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.33%) CCSP
4 3 (6.25%) CISA
4 3 (6.25%) GIAC
5 2 (4.17%) CEH
5 2 (4.17%) CRISC
5 2 (4.17%) GPEN
5 2 (4.17%) ISSAP
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) OSCP
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) GCIH
6 1 (2.08%) GSEC
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) NIST
2 11 (22.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.33%) SOC 2
4 3 (6.25%) GDPR
5 2 (4.17%) HIPAA
5 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Nessus
2 5 (10.42%) Ansible
2 5 (10.42%) Terraform
3 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.25%) QRadar
4 1 (2.08%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (50.00%) Tenable
3 16 (33.33%) Splunk
4 15 (31.25%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (27.08%) Rapid7
6 12 (25.00%) ServiceNow
7 8 (16.67%) Okta
8 4 (8.33%) Google
8 4 (8.33%) Ivanti
8 4 (8.33%) Veracode
9 3 (6.25%) Cisco
9 3 (6.25%) Oracle
9 3 (6.25%) TOWER Software
10 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
10 2 (4.17%) Sophos
10 2 (4.17%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
11 1 (2.08%) Citrix
11 1 (2.08%) Progress
11 1 (2.08%) Varonis