QRadar Job Trends in the Midlands

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring QRadar skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 244 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Permanent jobs citing QRadar 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.013% 0.015% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.32% 0.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +15.38% +6.12% +6.52%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

QRadar falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 311 406 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.98% 6.13% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 227 239 530
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,450 £30,662
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,000 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +6.92% -3.70%

QRadar
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QRadar relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

QRadar job vacancy trend in the Midlands

QRadar
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing QRadar.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing QRadar

QRadar
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +27 1 - - 1
QRadar
England

QRadar
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk