QRadar Contract Job Trends in the North of England

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 185 -
Rank change year-on-year -59 - -
Contract jobs citing QRadar 6 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.079% 0.18% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 1.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 0
10th Percentile £422 £355 -
25th Percentile £456 £404 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% - -
75th Percentile £550 £461 -
90th Percentile £610 £537 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -30.77%

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 1,058 637 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.00% 16.14% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 716 423 290
10th Percentile £290 £238 £234
25th Percentile £400 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £564
90th Percentile £658 £618 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 12 8
10th Percentile £44.69 - £28.53
25th Percentile £62.50 £18.87 £42.01
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +37.29% -
75th Percentile - £71.56 £46.82
90th Percentile £75.60 £93.95 £65.33
England median hourly rate £67.00 £44.48 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.65% +18.60% -24.43%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QRadar relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

QRadar job vacancy trend in the North of England

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing QRadar

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 September 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
North West -48 4 £470 +5.51% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £575 -
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Claude Code
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) LLM
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
2 1 (16.67%) GSEC
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) ArcSight
4 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (16.67%) Thales