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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 664 760
Rank change year-on-year +98 +96 -56
Contract jobs citing QRadar 18 33 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.059% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.38% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 65
10th Percentile £407 £400 £327
25th Percentile £423 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £698 £675 £688
90th Percentile £925 £678 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £597 £500
% change year-on-year -12.34% +19.33% +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 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 5,313 8,682 13,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.17% 15.63% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 6,197 9,951
10th Percentile £290 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 193 179
10th Percentile £15.43 £17.83 £13.20
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%
75th Percentile £53.00 £73.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.95 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +77 16 £600 - 8
London +84 13 £600 -5.88% 5
Work from Home +103 7 £600 +0.57% 4
UK excluding London +19 3 £523 -12.34% 3
South East +14 2 £396 -34.00% 1
Scotland +49 1 £650 +18.18%

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 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security
3 3 (16.67%) FTP
3 3 (16.67%) HTTP
3 3 (16.67%) ICMP
3 3 (16.67%) POP3
3 3 (16.67%) SMTP
3 3 (16.67%) SSH
3 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) ArcSight Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Security Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Monitoring Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) SIEM Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) SIEM
2 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (44.44%) Security Monitoring
4 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 6 (33.33%) Information Security
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 6 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 4 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (22.22%) Information Assurance
5 4 (22.22%) Log Aggregation
5 4 (22.22%) Remediation Plan
5 4 (22.22%) Threat Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
7 2 (11.11%) SABSA
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) CISM
2 4 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) GCIA
2 4 (22.22%) GCIH
2 4 (22.22%) GIAC
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%) ISSEP
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) CSIRT
1 4 (22.22%) Kibana
1 4 (22.22%) logstash
1 4 (22.22%) Nessus
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) ArcSight
3 4 (22.22%) BeyondTrust
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.56%) LogRhythm
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