Qualys
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Qualys products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Qualys over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 602 741
Rank change year-on-year +120 +139 -111
Contract jobs citing Qualys 96 114 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.52% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 96 90
10th Percentile £420 £419 £335
25th Percentile £425 £504 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £684 £585
90th Percentile £750 £780 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £478
% change year-on-year - -5.76% +8.82%

All Vendors
UK

Qualys is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,505 25,343 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 42.91% 39.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,470 16,952 23,538
10th Percentile £263 £271 £290
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £647 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,121 695 885
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.94
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +98.60% -2.73%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.45 £61.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

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 6 May 2024.

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 14 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 6 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 +89 84 £450 -20.88% 28
Work from Home +134 69 £450 -25.00% 17
London +95 55 £475 -20.83% 18
UK excluding London +63 35 £450 - 10
South East +36 19 £450 -14.29% 2
Scotland +44 8 £500 -
North of England +27 3 £450 - 2
Midlands +22 2 £588 +46.88% 2
Yorkshire +21 2 £400 -11.11% 1
West Midlands +11 2 £588 +46.88% 2
North West +26 1 £750 - 1
South West +22 1 £825 +57.14%
Wales +13 1 £450 - 1
East of England +6 1 £750 +79.10% 3

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 8 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.13%) Azure
2 21 (21.88%) AWS
3 10 (10.42%) GCP
4 8 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (8.33%) IaaS
4 8 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 8 (8.33%) PaaS
4 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.33%) Rubrik
4 8 (8.33%) SaaS
5 7 (7.29%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.92%) Firewall
2 19 (19.79%) DNS
3 11 (11.46%) TCP/IP
4 10 (10.42%) DHCP
5 9 (9.38%) VLAN
6 8 (8.33%) Kerberos
6 8 (8.33%) NAS
6 8 (8.33%) SAN
7 4 (4.17%) Internet
8 2 (2.08%) Network Security
9 1 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.33%) Git
2 8 (8.33%) JIRA
2 8 (8.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.04%) Burp Suite
General
1 42 (43.75%) Finance
2 16 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Banking
5 5 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.13%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Analyst
2 18 (18.75%) Security Engineer
3 13 (13.54%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 11 (11.46%) Security Specialist
4 11 (11.46%) Vulnerability Analyst
5 9 (9.38%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
6 8 (8.33%) IT Security Specialist
6 8 (8.33%) Security Operations Specialist
7 7 (7.29%) SOC Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Unix Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 5 (5.21%) Linux Specialist
10 4 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) SCCM Specialist
10 4 (4.17%) Security Analyst
11 3 (3.13%) Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Lead
11 3 (3.13%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
12 2 (2.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) LDAP
2 4 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.13%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.46%) Security Posture
3 8 (8.33%) Clustering
3 8 (8.33%) Replication
4 7 (7.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (5.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (34.38%) Windows
2 29 (30.21%) Linux
3 20 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 15 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (15.63%) Unix
5 8 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (8.33%) Solaris
6 7 (7.29%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.13%) zOS
8 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.04%) AIX
9 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.04%) CentOS
9 1 (1.04%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (79.17%) Vulnerability Management
2 31 (32.29%) Incident Response
3 29 (30.21%) Security Operations
4 27 (28.13%) Data Security
5 24 (25.00%) SIEM
6 17 (17.71%) Information Security
7 16 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
7 16 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 15 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (15.63%) Security Patching
9 12 (12.50%) ITIL
9 12 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 11 (11.46%) Mobile Device Management
10 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.42%) DevOps
11 10 (10.42%) Risk Management
11 10 (10.42%) Security Hardening
12 9 (9.38%) Agile
12 9 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.54%) Python
3 9 (9.38%) Bash
4 1 (1.04%) C#
4 1 (1.04%) C++
4 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) CISSP
2 10 (10.42%) CISM
2 10 (10.42%) Degree
3 6 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.13%) CEH
5 2 (2.08%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.08%) CSSLP
5 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CISA
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) GDPR
2 8 (8.33%) NIST
2 8 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.29%) SLA
4 5 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.08%) COBIT
6 2 (2.08%) ISO 22301
6 2 (2.08%) QA
7 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 16 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.33%) Docker
4 3 (3.13%) vSphere
5 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Ansible
2 14 (14.58%) SCCM
3 8 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.33%) Netcool
3 8 (8.33%) Terraform
3 8 (8.33%) Tivoli
3 8 (8.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (5.21%) Nessus
4 5 (5.21%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.17%) Puppet
6 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.13%) WSUS
7 2 (2.08%) Salt
8 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.04%) QRadar
8 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (28.13%) VMware
3 16 (16.67%) Forcepoint
3 16 (16.67%) LogRhythm
3 16 (16.67%) Varonis
4 13 (13.54%) Splunk
5 9 (9.38%) ServiceNow
6 8 (8.33%) Cisco
6 8 (8.33%) CyberArk
6 8 (8.33%) Dell
6 8 (8.33%) EMC
6 8 (8.33%) HP
6 8 (8.33%) IBM
6 8 (8.33%) Isilon
6 8 (8.33%) Oracle
6 8 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 8 (8.33%) Serena
6 8 (8.33%) Veracode
7 7 (7.29%) CA
8 5 (5.21%) Rapid7