QRadar Contracts

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 582 677
Rank change year-on-year +97 +95 +80
Contract jobs citing QRadar 34 18 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.041% 0.060%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.74% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 28
10th Percentile £425 £407 £470
25th Percentile £463 £442 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% -2.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £621 £766 £675
90th Percentile £765 £925 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £650
% change year-on-year +0.40% -23.38% +36.84%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Top 8 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 30 April 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
England +77 30 £500 -20.00% 29
London +39 16 £519 -17.04% 8
Work from Home +55 12 £519 -13.58% 14
UK excluding London +61 10 £500 +0.40% 22
South East +48 7 £500 +26.26% 11
Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £550 -
South West - 1 £750 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Confluence
1 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) AWS
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) GCP
3 7 (20.59%) Nutanix
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) Datadog
6 1 (2.94%) IaaS
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) DNS
1 8 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (17.65%) Firewall
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (8.82%) Kerberos
3 3 (8.82%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) DSL
4 1 (2.94%) IPFIX
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Subversion
1 9 (26.47%) TeamCity
2 7 (20.59%) Git
3 6 (17.65%) JIRA
4 3 (8.82%) GitLab
5 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.94%) Serena SBM
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Administrator
1 8 (23.53%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (20.59%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) SIEM Architect
4 2 (5.88%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Audit Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Incident Responder
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior
5 1 (2.94%) SIEM Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) SIEM Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) Kafka
2 3 (8.82%) LDAP
3 1 (2.94%) .NET
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Clustering
2 7 (20.59%) Replication
3 5 (14.71%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
5 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.94%) Insider Threat
6 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.94%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Linux
2 9 (26.47%) Solaris
3 4 (11.76%) Windows
4 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Unix
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) SIEM
2 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
2 13 (38.24%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (35.29%) DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) High Availability
5 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (26.47%) Incident Response
6 8 (23.53%) API Integration
6 8 (23.53%) Kernel Tuning
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.59%) Threat Intelligence
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.65%) Security Operations
8 6 (17.65%) SOAR
8 6 (17.65%) Threat Detection
8 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (14.71%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 5 (14.71%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 5 (14.71%) Security Auditing
9 5 (14.71%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) Bash
3 9 (26.47%) Perl
4 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.94%) Ruby
6 1 (2.94%) SQL
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) CISSP
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) CEH
3 4 (11.76%) GIAC
4 3 (8.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.88%) CISM
5 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) GCIA
5 2 (5.88%) GCIH
6 1 (2.94%) CISA
6 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) GCFA
6 1 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.94%) OSCP
6 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) GDPR
2 7 (20.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (11.76%) NIST
4 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) NFS
3 4 (11.76%) Veritas File System
3 4 (11.76%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.94%) Docker
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Ansible
2 8 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (20.59%) Tivoli
4 5 (14.71%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (14.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (11.76%) logstash
6 3 (8.82%) Control-M
6 3 (8.82%) FortiGate
6 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.82%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (5.88%) Netcool
8 1 (2.94%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (2.94%) Kibana
8 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
8 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Splunk
2 13 (38.24%) IBM
3 9 (26.47%) CyberArk
3 9 (26.47%) Qualys
3 9 (26.47%) Red Hat
3 9 (26.47%) VMware
4 8 (23.53%) SaltStack
5 7 (20.59%) Palo Alto
6 5 (14.71%) EMC
6 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
7 4 (11.76%) ArcSight
7 4 (11.76%) Cisco
7 4 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
8 3 (8.82%) BMC
8 3 (8.82%) LogRhythm
8 3 (8.82%) Oracle
9 2 (5.88%) Trend Micro
10 1 (2.94%) Serena
10 1 (2.94%) Sybase