QRadar Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring QRadar skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 361 410
Rank change year-on-year -13 +49 +94
Contract jobs citing QRadar 22 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.054% 0.048%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.83% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 8
10th Percentile £340 £458 £558
25th Percentile £395 £500 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% -7.29% -6.94%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £598
90th Percentile £638 £685 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £675
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +8.00%

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 2,652 2,297 2,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 13.69% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,779 1,496 2,014
10th Percentile £235 £250 £270
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.68% -2.14%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £613
90th Percentile £643 £659 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 38 121
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £22.42 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -36.09% -24.03% +110.96%
75th Percentile £66.63 £52.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £36.83 £49.87
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +99.46%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QRadar relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

QRadar job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

QRadar
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing QRadar.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing QRadar

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +6 8 £413 -17.46% 7
West Midlands -9 8 £613 - 3
Midlands -16 8 £613 - 3
North West - 7 £445 -
North of England - 7 £445 - 1
QRadar
UK

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Network Security
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
3 3 (13.64%) Internet
4 1 (4.55%) IPFIX
4 1 (4.55%) SSL
4 1 (4.55%) tcpdump
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Finance
4 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 5 (22.73%) SIEM Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) SOC Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Security Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Incident Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Incident Responder
6 1 (4.55%) Incident Response Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) SOC Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (18.18%) Cyber Security Posture
2 4 (18.18%) PKI
2 4 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 3 (13.64%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) MISP
4 1 (4.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) SIEM
2 16 (72.73%) Incident Response
3 13 (59.09%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (40.91%) Threat Detection
5 8 (36.36%) Security Operations
6 6 (27.27%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (27.27%) Use Case
7 5 (22.73%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (22.73%) Information Security
7 5 (22.73%) SOAR
8 4 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
8 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
8 4 (18.18%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
8 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
8 4 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
8 4 (18.18%) Threat Management
8 4 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
9 3 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Bash
2 2 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) CISSP
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) CEH
3 5 (22.73%) CISM
3 5 (22.73%) GIAC
4 4 (18.18%) Degree
5 3 (13.64%) CISA
5 3 (13.64%) GSEC
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.55%) GCED
6 1 (4.55%) GCFA
6 1 (4.55%) GCIA
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) NIST
2 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
3 3 (13.64%) GDPR
3 3 (13.64%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Kibana
1 1 (4.55%) Nessus
1 1 (4.55%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Splunk
2 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (40.91%) ArcSight
4 5 (22.73%) Google
5 3 (13.64%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (13.64%) IBM
6 1 (4.55%) Carbon Black
6 1 (4.55%) Darktrace
6 1 (4.55%) FireEye
6 1 (4.55%) LogRhythm
6 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.55%) Qualys
6 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
6 1 (4.55%) Tanium
6 1 (4.55%) Tenable
6 1 (4.55%) Zscaler