QRadar Contract Job Trends in the South East

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 172 213
Rank change year-on-year +9 +41 +54
Contract jobs citing QRadar 8 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.095% 0.036%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.40% 0.64% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £340 £416 £510
25th Percentile £350 £448 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% -24.53% +32.50%
75th Percentile £486 £619 £775
90th Percentile £625 £690 £835
England median daily rate £563 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +12.50% -25.93% +3.85%

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 571 623 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.55% 14.84% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 462 499
10th Percentile £255 £275 £205
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £573 £613 £638
90th Percentile £614 £685 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 29
10th Percentile £18.87 £19.18 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.94 £28.06 £30.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -42.99% -29.45% +10.51%
75th Percentile £43.89 £41.75 £68.63
90th Percentile £86.98 £54.35 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £48.70
% change year-on-year -9.93% -22.48% +94.80%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in the South East

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing QRadar

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in the South East over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 27 October 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 +17 7 £380 -37.90%
Berkshire +16 7 £380 -23.93%
Surrey - 1 £500 - 2
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) IPFIX
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (75.00%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (12.50%) Blue Team
5 1 (12.50%) Coaching
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 1 (12.50%) SOAR
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) CISSP
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) CEH
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) GIAC
4 2 (25.00%) CISM
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) GCED
5 1 (12.50%) GCFA
5 1 (12.50%) GCIA
5 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Splunk
2 4 (50.00%) ArcSight
3 2 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) FireEye
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Tanium
4 1 (12.50%) Tenable