QRadar Contract Job Trends in Reading

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QRadar 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.088% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £375 £625 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 140 72 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.33% 12.06% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 33 109
10th Percentile £320 £400 £213
25th Percentile £419 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £463 £605
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -23.55% -3.20%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £638
90th Percentile £710 £663 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £465 £463 £575
% change year-on-year +0.54% -19.57% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile £28.13 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% - -
75th Percentile £35.22 - -
90th Percentile £56.32 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 -
% change year-on-year +72.23% - -

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in Reading

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing QRadar

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk