QRadar Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring QRadar skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QRadar over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 391 447
Rank change year-on-year +68 +56 +39
Contract jobs citing QRadar 11 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.014% 0.033%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.58% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £463 £415 £525
25th Percentile £491 £444 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -23.38% +36.84%
75th Percentile £513 £558 £663
90th Percentile £618 £591 £675
UK median daily rate £509 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -16.86% -2.00% +13.64%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,888 2,338 3,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.78% 11.30% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,323 1,695 2,644
10th Percentile £235 £211 £275
25th Percentile £393 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £623
90th Percentile £659 £652 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 76 137
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.05 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £24.18 £34.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.40% -19.41% +112.50%
75th Percentile £42.88 £49.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.48 £70.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.48 £28.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.91% -50.00% +158.08%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing QRadar as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in the UK excluding London

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QRadar in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QRadar in the UK excluding London

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in the UK excluding London

QRadar
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
South East +41 7 £500 +26.26% 14
Midlands - 2 £550 -
West Midlands - 2 £550 -
North of England - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £750 -
QRadar
UK

QRadar
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (9.09%) DSL
2 1 (9.09%) IPFIX
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) tcpdump
2 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Audit Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) MISP
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (9.09%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) SIEM
2 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
4 4 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) SOAR
6 2 (18.18%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
7 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
7 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 1 (9.09%) Security Analytics
7 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
3 2 (18.18%) CEH
3 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) CISA
4 1 (9.09%) CISM
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) GCIA
4 1 (9.09%) GCIH
4 1 (9.09%) GIAC
4 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) logstash
2 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) Nessus
2 1 (9.09%) OpenVAS
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Splunk
2 5 (45.45%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
4 3 (27.27%) IBM
5 1 (9.09%) ArcSight
5 1 (9.09%) Carbon Black
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Exabeam
5 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.09%) Qualys
5 1 (9.09%) Rapid7