Qualys Contract Job Trends

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 28 December 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
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 455 519
Rank change year-on-year -41 +64 +163
Contract jobs citing Qualys 88 85 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.55% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 50 58
10th Percentile £350 £355 £385
25th Percentile £423 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £476 £556
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -14.43% -7.29%
75th Percentile £613 £548 £725
90th Percentile - £598 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +8.97% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -19.54%

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 17,331 15,375 19,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.91% 45.82% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,059 9,171 12,306
10th Percentile £294 £285 £252
25th Percentile £409 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 451 667
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.51 £19.19
Median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.76%
75th Percentile £44.69 £61.25 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.90 £76.25 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.55
% change year-on-year -14.00% -45.11% +102.42%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Qualys relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Qualys job vacancy trend in the UK

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Qualys.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Qualys

Qualys
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Qualys over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Qualys.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Qualys

Qualys
Top 11 Contract Job 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 28 December 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 -32 82 £520 +6.12% 25
London -6 53 £525 - 11
Work from Home +24 46 £550 +15.79% 14
UK excluding London -53 24 £518 +8.97% 15
South East -23 10 £520 +9.47% 6
North of England -37 5 £515 +31.26% 1
North West - 5 £515 -
East of England -22 4 £450 +101.12% 1
West Midlands - 4 - - 2
Midlands - 4 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Qualys
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (51.14%) Azure
2 25 (28.41%) Azure Sentinel
3 23 (26.14%) AWS
4 12 (13.64%) GCP
5 10 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.82%) GitHub
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.55%) Cloudflare
7 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.55%) OpenDNS
7 4 (4.55%) PaaS
7 4 (4.55%) SaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.41%) IaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.41%) Serverless
9 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.27%) Datadog
9 2 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.86%) Firewall
2 12 (13.64%) Network Security
3 10 (11.36%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.95%) VPN
5 6 (6.82%) DNS
6 4 (4.55%) WAN
7 3 (3.41%) SD-WAN
7 3 (3.41%) Wireless
8 2 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (2.27%) DMZ
8 2 (2.27%) SSH
8 2 (2.27%) Telnet
8 2 (2.27%) VLAN
8 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
9 1 (1.14%) LAN
9 1 (1.14%) NAS
9 1 (1.14%) NGFW
9 1 (1.14%) SNMP
9 1 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Power BI
2 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) Subversion
2 4 (4.55%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.27%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.14%) git-flow
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.14%) Snyk
General
1 13 (14.77%) Finance
2 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) German Language
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Military
6 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (39.77%) Analyst
2 20 (22.73%) SOC Analyst
3 17 (19.32%) Security Engineer
4 16 (18.18%) Monitoring Analyst
5 12 (13.64%) Security Analyst
6 9 (10.23%) Senior
7 5 (5.68%) Architect
7 5 (5.68%) Lead
7 5 (5.68%) Operations Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) Security Operations Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Administrator
8 4 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (4.55%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) Regular Expression
1 4 (4.55%) REST
2 3 (3.41%) Middleware
2 3 (3.41%) Spring
2 3 (3.41%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.27%) Kafka
4 1 (1.14%) LDAP
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.14%) OpenID
4 1 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.14%) SAML
4 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.55%) Clustering
3 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Replication
3 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.41%) CSOC
4 3 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.41%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.41%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.41%) Windows
2 15 (17.05%) Linux
3 8 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (7.95%) Solaris
4 7 (7.95%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.55%) Unix
6 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.14%) CentOS
7 1 (1.14%) Kali Linux
7 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 30 (34.09%) SIEM
3 29 (32.95%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (29.55%) Incident Response
5 25 (28.41%) Security Operations
6 23 (26.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 16 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 15 (17.05%) Penetration Testing
9 14 (15.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 12 (13.64%) CI/CD
10 12 (13.64%) DevOps
10 12 (13.64%) Zero Trust
11 11 (12.50%) Cloud Security
12 10 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (11.36%) SOAR
13 9 (10.23%) Patch Management
14 8 (9.09%) Data Security
14 8 (9.09%) Information Security
14 8 (9.09%) Runbook
14 8 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 20 (22.73%) Python
3 18 (20.45%) PowerShell
4 14 (15.91%) Bash
5 4 (4.55%) Java
5 4 (4.55%) Perl
6 2 (2.27%) Go
7 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) CISSP
2 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.95%) CEH
5 5 (5.68%) CISM
6 4 (4.55%) GCIA
7 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.41%) Degree
7 3 (3.41%) GCIH
7 3 (3.41%) OSCP
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.27%) CCNP
8 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.27%) CRISC
8 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.27%) GIAC
9 1 (1.14%) CCIE
9 1 (1.14%) CISA
9 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) NIST
2 13 (14.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (13.64%) GDPR
4 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (3.41%) GRC
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.14%) NCSC
6 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.68%) Docker
3 4 (4.55%) NFS
3 4 (4.55%) Snort
3 4 (4.55%) Squid
3 4 (4.55%) Veritas File System
3 4 (4.55%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.27%) Firmware
4 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (17.05%) Nessus
2 11 (12.50%) QRadar
3 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.82%) Ansible
4 6 (6.82%) SCCM
5 5 (5.68%) Nexpose
5 5 (5.68%) Terraform
6 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (4.55%) Suricata
7 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.27%) Argo
8 2 (2.27%) Grafana
8 2 (2.27%) Opsgenie
8 2 (2.27%) WSUS
9 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (44.32%) Microsoft
2 37 (42.05%) Splunk
3 30 (34.09%) CrowdStrike
4 20 (22.73%) Carbon Black
5 18 (20.45%) Tenable
6 9 (10.23%) Cisco
6 9 (10.23%) Rapid7
6 9 (10.23%) VMware
7 8 (9.09%) Google
7 8 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 8 (9.09%) Tanium
8 6 (6.82%) CyberArk
9 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
10 4 (4.55%) Blue Coat
10 4 (4.55%) FireEye
10 4 (4.55%) SaltStack
10 4 (4.55%) Varonis
10 4 (4.55%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.41%) F5
11 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow