Qualys Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Qualys
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 116 113
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Qualys 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.69% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £454 £226 £603
25th Percentile £460 £239 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £265 £775
Median % change year-on-year +84.15% -65.81% -
75th Percentile £507 £276 £788
90th Percentile - £283 -
UK median daily rate £525 £483 £510
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.29% -7.27%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 983 725 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.27% 45.43% 40.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 392 471
10th Percentile £236 £231 £165
25th Percentile £363 £368 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +5.59% -7.79%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £545
90th Percentile £638 £600 £699
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 63 38
10th Percentile £13.46 £16.02 £12.39
25th Percentile £13.77 £16.96 £15.13
Median hourly rate £16.05 £19.23 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +6.07% +2.31%
75th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £23.89
90th Percentile £55.63 £27.39 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -10.18% -36.00%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Qualys job vacancy trend in Scotland

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Qualys.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Qualys

Qualys
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Qualys within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Edinburgh -6 3 £488 -
Qualys
UK

Qualys
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Server Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Rapid7
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Tenable
3 1 (33.33%) VMware