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 28 November 2025, 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 110 138
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 +21
Contract jobs citing Qualys 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.30% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile - £563 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £508 £480 £591
% change year-on-year +5.88% -18.71% +0.94%

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 696 664 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.55% 38.03% 41.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 365 599
10th Percentile £214 £168 £200
25th Percentile £375 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 41 34
10th Percentile £17.12 £13.64 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +11.35% +19.55%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £28.38 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%

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 28 November 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
Edinburgh +5 2 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Innovation
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Email Filtering
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Thales