QRadar Contracts in the North of England

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 - 197
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs citing QRadar 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.053% - 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% - 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £579
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £593
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.65%
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - £655
England median daily rate £500 £475 £608
% change year-on-year +5.26% -21.81% +5.65%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 643 529 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.19% 11.04% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 357 579
10th Percentile £240 £235 £325
25th Percentile £375 £381 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £552 £563 £638
90th Percentile £632 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 44
10th Percentile £62.54 £17.26 £16.25
25th Percentile - £17.72 £20.99
Median hourly rate £63.40 £38.59 £38.55
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +0.10% +92.75%
75th Percentile £84.88 £48.75 £46.39
90th Percentile £89.15 £65.63 £51.35
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.97% -45.22% +161.36%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in the North of England

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QRadar in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for QRadar in the North of England

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
North West - 2 £400 - 3
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Server Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (50.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler