QRadar Contracts in the South East

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 196 216
Rank change year-on-year +51 +20 +35
Contract jobs citing QRadar 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.036% 0.035%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.94% 0.28% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £463 - £538
25th Percentile £472 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £396 £625
Median % change year-on-year +26.26% -36.64% +100.00%
75th Percentile - - £669
90th Percentile - - £673
England median daily rate £500 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +30.00%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 360 719 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.95% 12.95% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 507 585
10th Percentile £323 £213 £309
25th Percentile £425 £370 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.04% +8.00%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £699
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 21
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £48.50
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -19.15% +170.11%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £73.71
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £75.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.92% -50.45% +155.81%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing QRadar as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in the South East

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QRadar in the South East.

Daily rate trend for QRadar in the South East

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Thames Valley - 4 £500 - 2
Surrey - 3 £475 -
Berkshire - 2 £500 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 -
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) IPFIX
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) SIEM
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) SOAR
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) CEH
2 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (14.29%) CISA
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) GCIA
3 1 (14.29%) GCIH
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) IBM