Qualys Contract Job Trends in the South East

Qualys
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 148 197
Rank change year-on-year -20 +49 +38
Contract jobs citing Qualys 9 19 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.53% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 1.06% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 5
10th Percentile £295 £324 £287
25th Percentile £325 £423 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +13.10% +8.39%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £475
90th Percentile £545 £700 £490
England median daily rate £520 £477 £575
% change year-on-year +9.01% -17.04% -4.17%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,226 1,800 2,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.51% 50.29% 52.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 1,187 1,640
10th Percentile £226 £243 £205
25th Percentile £405 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £683 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 49 121
10th Percentile £13.95 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.47 £24.18 £24.34
Median hourly rate £22.25 £42.50 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -47.65% -24.65% +111.00%
75th Percentile £66.16 £63.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £89.68 £71.97 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% -34.78% +70.37%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Qualys job vacancy trend in the South East

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Qualys
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Qualys in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Qualys in the South East

Qualys
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Qualys.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Qualys

Qualys
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 Qualys within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Thames Valley -11 4 - - 1
Berkshire -6 3 - - 1
Surrey -13 3 £525 +10.53%
West Sussex - 2 £325 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Qualys
England

Qualys
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 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) NGFW
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) CSOC
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Application Security
4 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Data Security
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
4 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (22.22%) Runbook
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (22.22%) F5
1 2 (22.22%) Tenable
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk