QRadar Contracts in the Midlands

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring QRadar skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QRadar over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing QRadar 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% - 0.033%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.14% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £475
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £630 - -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +11.11% -30.77% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

QRadar falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 351 331 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.93% 12.31% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 247 262
10th Percentile £275 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £358 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £642 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -2.38% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £19.45 £18.60
25th Percentile - £25.38 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £25.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +28.83% +15.94%
75th Percentile - £47.79 £21.88
90th Percentile £30.16 £65.00 £23.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £49.73
% change year-on-year +40.00% -24.59% +116.22%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing QRadar as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in the Midlands

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing QRadar

QRadar
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 4 £600 - 2
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DSL
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Responder
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Security Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) GIAC
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Google