Qualys Contract Job Trends in the South West

Qualys
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 16 May 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 105 149
Rank change year-on-year -37 +44 +17
Contract jobs citing Qualys 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% 0.24% 0.032%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.53% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £419 £265 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £340 £825
Median % change year-on-year +36.03% -58.79% +57.14%
75th Percentile £490 £425 £838
90th Percentile £495 - -
England median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -18.18%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,016 748 1,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.38% 44.60% 40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 468 801
10th Percentile £263 £215 £198
25th Percentile £399 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £503
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +1.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £725 £678 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 72 181
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.86 £18.51 £36.25
Median hourly rate £51.37 £35.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -25.26% -23.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -41.56%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Qualys job vacancy trend in the South West

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Qualys
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 Qualys within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 -17 4 £475 +39.71% 1
Somerset -18 1 £400 +17.65%
Qualys
England

Qualys
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) OSS Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) OSS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) OSS Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Fault Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (80.00%) Huawei
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable