Qualys Contracts

Qualys
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Qualys products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Qualys over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Qualys, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 486 604
Rank change year-on-year +52 +118 +127
Contract jobs citing Qualys 86 96 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.62% 0.52% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 68 96
10th Percentile £290 £418 £409
25th Percentile £371 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -20.88% +13.75%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £684
90th Percentile £574 £645 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £29.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.76% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Vendors
UK

Qualys falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Qualys over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Qualys.

Hourly rate trend for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Qualys within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +39 67 £475 +5.56% 23
London +30 46 £475 - 13
Work from Home +9 36 £463 +2.78% 12
UK excluding London +46 19 £435 -3.33% 12
Scotland +13 7 £265 -47.00%
South East +31 6 £475 +5.56% 5
South West - 3 £280 - 2
North of England +18 2 £525 +16.67% 3
Midlands +21 1 £651 +10.72% 1
North West +17 1 - - 3
West Midlands +13 1 £651 +10.72% 1
Yorkshire +7 1 £525 +31.25%

Qualys
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 4 (4.65%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) Azure
2 17 (19.77%) Azure Sentinel
3 14 (16.28%) Azure AKS
4 12 (13.95%) AWS
5 11 (12.79%) GitHub
6 8 (9.30%) Nutanix
7 7 (8.14%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.81%) IaaS
8 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (5.81%) PaaS
8 5 (5.81%) SaaS
9 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.65%) GCP
9 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.49%) Serverless
10 3 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.33%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.09%) Network Security
2 9 (10.47%) DNS
2 9 (10.47%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.98%) Firewall
4 4 (4.65%) Kerberos
4 4 (4.65%) VPN
5 3 (3.49%) SSL
6 1 (1.16%) DHCP
6 1 (1.16%) NAS
6 1 (1.16%) SAN
6 1 (1.16%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.16%) VLAN
6 1 (1.16%) WAN
6 1 (1.16%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Power BI
2 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) TeamCity
2 9 (10.47%) Subversion
3 7 (8.14%) Git
4 4 (4.65%) JIRA
5 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.16%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) Serena SBM
6 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Finance
3 8 (9.30%) Banking
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Local Government
7 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (11.63%) Analyst
1 10 (11.63%) Architect
2 9 (10.47%) Security Analyst
2 9 (10.47%) Security Architect
2 9 (10.47%) Security Engineer
3 8 (9.30%) Administrator
3 8 (9.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 8 (9.30%) Linux Administrator
3 8 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (8.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 7 (8.14%) Security Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.81%) Security Specialist
5 5 (5.81%) Vulnerability Analyst
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Coordinator
6 4 (4.65%) Incident Coordinator
6 4 (4.65%) Incident Handler
7 3 (3.49%) Senior
7 3 (3.49%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
8 2 (2.33%) Vulnerability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.30%) REST
2 4 (4.65%) LDAP
3 1 (1.16%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.42%) Security Posture
2 11 (12.79%) Clustering
3 9 (10.47%) Replication
4 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.16%) MISP
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
2 12 (13.95%) Windows
3 10 (11.63%) Solaris
4 7 (8.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.33%) Unix
8 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 25 (29.07%) DevSecOps
3 24 (27.91%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (17.44%) Application Security
4 15 (17.44%) Static Application Security Testing
4 15 (17.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 14 (16.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 12 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 12 (13.95%) DevOps
6 12 (13.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (13.95%) Security Operations
7 11 (12.79%) High Availability
7 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.79%) Risk Assessment
7 11 (12.79%) Risk Management
8 10 (11.63%) Cloud Security
8 10 (11.63%) Incident Response
9 9 (10.47%) ITIL
10 8 (9.30%) SIEM
10 8 (9.30%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.09%) Python
2 14 (16.28%) Bash
3 9 (10.47%) Perl
3 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (1.16%) Java
5 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.16%) Ruby
5 1 (1.16%) SQL
5 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) CISSP
2 16 (18.60%) CISM
3 14 (16.28%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) CISA
6 2 (2.33%) Degree
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CCNA
7 1 (1.16%) CCNP
7 1 (1.16%) CEH
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.16%) GCIH
7 1 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.79%) GDPR
2 9 (10.47%) GRC
2 9 (10.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (8.14%) NIST
4 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (4.65%) SLA
5 4 (4.65%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.33%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.65%) NFS
4 4 (4.65%) Veritas File System
4 4 (4.65%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.33%) Docker
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) QRadar
2 9 (10.47%) Ansible
3 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.30%) Red Hat Satellite
3 8 (9.30%) Tivoli
4 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.98%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (6.98%) Nessus
5 6 (6.98%) SCCM
5 6 (6.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (3.49%) Control-M
6 3 (3.49%) Netcool
7 2 (2.33%) Nagios
7 2 (2.33%) Terraform
8 1 (1.16%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (1.16%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.16%) OpenVAS
8 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (26.74%) ServiceNow
2 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 14 (16.28%) Tenable
4 12 (13.95%) Splunk
5 10 (11.63%) CyberArk
5 10 (11.63%) VMware
6 9 (10.47%) IBM
6 9 (10.47%) Red Hat
7 8 (9.30%) SaltStack
8 7 (8.14%) Rapid7
9 6 (6.98%) EMC
10 5 (5.81%) Oracle
11 4 (4.65%) Ariba
12 3 (3.49%) BMC
12 3 (3.49%) Cisco
12 3 (3.49%) Sybase
13 2 (2.33%) Imperva
13 2 (2.33%) Palo Alto
13 2 (2.33%) Serena
13 2 (2.33%) Tripwire