QRadar Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 108 -
Rank change year-on-year -46 - -
Contract jobs citing QRadar 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.031% 0.30% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 2.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
South East median daily rate £275 £500 £396
% change year-on-year -45.00% +26.26% -34.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 381 230 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.78% 13.82% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 131 213
10th Percentile £313 £250 £244
25th Percentile £400 £384 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £608
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 5
10th Percentile £24.10 - £21.60
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £30.00
Median hourly rate £35.22 £55.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.96% +61.76% -37.32%
75th Percentile £62.87 £83.00 £36.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.98 £37.50
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £32.77 £36.17
% change year-on-year +105.89% -9.39% -34.25%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

QRadar job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing QRadar

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Berkshire -34 1 £375 -40.00% 1
QRadar
South East

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk