IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring QRadar skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QRadar over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 859 966
Rank change year-on-year +199 +107 +175
Permanent jobs citing QRadar 46 39 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.039% 0.015%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.87% 0.39% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 34 36 13
10th Percentile £47,500 - £36,020
25th Percentile £60,500 £51,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +38.89% -43.75%
75th Percentile £74,688 £77,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £77,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +33.33% -5.26%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,311 9,900 14,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 9.98% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,351 7,125 9,159
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £48,278 £45,000 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.86% -3.65%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QRadar.

Salary trend for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QRadar over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +165 45 £65,000 +4.00% 34
UK excluding London +212 30 £62,000 +3.33% 29
London +89 14 £65,000 +4.00% 7
South East +111 11 £71,250 - 14
Work from Home +147 9 £65,000 +18.18% 15
East of England +46 9 £62,000 +3.33% 18
Midlands - 4 £72,500 -
North of England - 4 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 - -
North West - 2 £50,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £72,500 -
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
South West - 1 £70,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 5 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 22 (47.83%) Firewall
2 14 (30.43%) TCP/IP
3 12 (26.09%) Network Security
3 12 (26.09%) VPN
4 9 (19.57%) Internet
5 8 (17.39%) FTP
5 8 (17.39%) HTTP
5 8 (17.39%) LAN
5 8 (17.39%) SMTP
5 8 (17.39%) WAN
6 5 (10.87%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.17%) DHCP
7 1 (2.17%) DNS
7 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.17%) NAS
7 1 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Law
3 6 (13.04%) Aviation
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Aerospace
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Automotive
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Lead
2 12 (26.09%) SOC Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Analyst
4 9 (19.57%) SOC Analyst
5 7 (15.22%) Incident Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Incident Responder
6 5 (10.87%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Identity Management Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) SOC Manager
8 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Security Analyst
10 1 (2.17%) Consultant
10 1 (2.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 1 (2.17%) IT Analyst
10 1 (2.17%) Operations Analyst
10 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Analyst
10 1 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
10 1 (2.17%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) LDAP
2 5 (10.87%) OAuth
2 5 (10.87%) OpenID
2 5 (10.87%) SailPoint
2 5 (10.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Management Information System
2 14 (30.43%) Onboarding
2 14 (30.43%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (19.57%) CSOC
3 9 (19.57%) Virtual Team
4 8 (17.39%) Client/Server
4 8 (17.39%) PKI
5 6 (13.04%) Robotics
6 5 (10.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.17%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.17%) MISP
7 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Android
2 6 (13.04%) Apple iOS
2 6 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (97.83%) SIEM
2 31 (67.39%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (52.17%) Security Operations
4 23 (50.00%) Incident Response
5 18 (39.13%) Use Case
6 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (28.26%) Threat Intelligence
8 12 (26.09%) Mentoring
9 11 (23.91%) Cloud Security
9 11 (23.91%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 10 (21.74%) DevOps
10 10 (21.74%) Security Monitoring
11 9 (19.57%) Architectural Design
11 9 (19.57%) Open Source
11 9 (19.57%) Penetration Testing
11 9 (19.57%) Performance Management
11 9 (19.57%) Process Improvement
11 9 (19.57%) Protective Monitoring
11 9 (19.57%) Trend Analysis
12 8 (17.39%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 11 (23.91%) Python
3 10 (21.74%) Bash
3 10 (21.74%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (13.04%) C++
4 6 (13.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (67.39%) Security Cleared
2 29 (63.04%) SC Cleared
3 17 (36.96%) Degree
4 8 (17.39%) CISM
4 8 (17.39%) CISSP
4 8 (17.39%) DV Cleared
5 7 (15.22%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (6.52%) CEH
7 3 (6.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (6.52%) OSCP
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.17%) CCNA
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.17%) CREST Certified
8 1 (2.17%) GCIA
8 1 (2.17%) GCIH
8 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (15.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (15.22%) SLA
3 6 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (8.70%) NIST
5 3 (6.52%) GDPR
5 3 (6.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) ArcSight ESM
1 6 (13.04%) Terraform
2 5 (10.87%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (2.17%) Nessus
3 1 (2.17%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 35 (76.09%) Microsoft
2 29 (63.04%) Splunk
3 7 (15.22%) AlienVault
3 7 (15.22%) McAfee
4 6 (13.04%) ArcSight
4 6 (13.04%) LogLogic
4 6 (13.04%) SolarWinds
5 4 (8.70%) Cisco
5 4 (8.70%) Google
6 3 (6.52%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.35%) IBM
8 1 (2.17%) Darktrace
8 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle
8 1 (2.17%) Qualys
8 1 (2.17%) VMware