QRadar Contract Job Trends in the South West

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 108 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing QRadar 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.053% -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.15% 0.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% - -
75th Percentile £663 £775 -
90th Percentile £685 - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -25.47%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 436 264 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.06% 13.93% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 194 306
10th Percentile £326 £240 £248
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £629 £625
90th Percentile £730 £700 £695
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 9
10th Percentile £25.88 £17.13 £62.20
25th Percentile £49.13 £18.87 £72.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £60.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -18.92% -5.13%
75th Percentile £95.96 £78.70 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.65 £80.59 £77.60
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +22.94% +43.42% -23.26%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in the South West

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in the South West over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in the South West

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol - 5 £550 - 1
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) IPsec
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Network Design
5 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CEH
2 3 (60.00%) CISM
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Suricata
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) Cribl.io
2 1 (20.00%) IBM