IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for QRadar skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QRadar over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 665 744
Rank change year-on-year +100 +79 -77
Contract jobs citing QRadar 18 31 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.053% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.36% 0.33% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 69
10th Percentile £407 £400 £348
25th Percentile £442 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +9.65% +20.00%
75th Percentile £766 £675 £688
90th Percentile £925 £713 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -23.38% +30.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

QRadar is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,067 9,328 14,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 16.04% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,709 10,128
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 207 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.13 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.70 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing QRadar as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QRadar.

Daily rate trend for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
England +99 16 £625 -3.85% 20
London +86 12 £625 -3.85% 13
Work from Home +105 7 £600 -4.00% 14
UK excluding London +66 3 £498 -23.38% 10
South East +17 2 £396 -36.64% 3
East of England - 1 £600 - 2

QRadar
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) FTP
2 4 (22.22%) HTTP
2 4 (22.22%) ICMP
2 4 (22.22%) POP3
2 4 (22.22%) SMTP
2 4 (22.22%) SSH
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (5.56%) DSL
4 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) ArcSight Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) SIEM
2 7 (38.89%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 5 (27.78%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 4 (22.22%) Information Security
5 4 (22.22%) Log Aggregation
5 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Information Assurance
6 2 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (11.11%) SABSA
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) CISM
2 4 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) CCNA
4 2 (11.11%) CCSP
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) GCIA
4 2 (11.11%) GCIH
4 2 (11.11%) GIAC
4 2 (11.11%) ISSEP
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kibana
1 5 (27.78%) logstash
2 3 (16.67%) Nessus
3 2 (11.11%) CSIRT
4 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Splunk
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) ArcSight
4 2 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) LogRhythm
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) ESET
5 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.56%) McAfee
5 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) Tanium
5 1 (5.56%) Thales