QRadar Contracts

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring QRadar skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QRadar over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 569 651
Rank change year-on-year +69 +82 +115
Contract jobs citing QRadar 32 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.041% 0.061%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 30
10th Percentile £425 £407 £400
25th Percentile £463 £423 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +2.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £569 £698 £669
90th Percentile £750 £925 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £523 £593
% change year-on-year -4.40% -11.84% +18.65%

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 contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,700 5,318 8,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.76% 12.12% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,151 3,833 6,149
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.36% -2.65%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 102 189
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.15 £18.45
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -43.48% +161.36%
75th Percentile £63.40 £50.19 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.83 £71.25 £84.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +42.50% -6.98% +115.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QRadar over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QRadar within the UK over the 6 months to 18 June 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 +88 30 £500 -16.67% 83
London +55 15 £519 -13.58% 30
UK excluding London +53 12 £500 -4.40% 53
South East +58 8 £500 +26.26% 16
Work from Home +36 7 £500 -16.67% 17
Midlands - 2 £550 - 6
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 4
South West - 1 £750 - 2
North West - 1 - - 7
North of England - 1 - - 14

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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) GitHub
4 6 (18.75%) Nutanix
5 5 (15.63%) GCP
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (6.25%) Datadog
8 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (3.13%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DNS
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 5 (15.63%) Network Security
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (6.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.13%) DSL
6 1 (3.13%) IPFIX
6 1 (3.13%) SSL
6 1 (3.13%) tcpdump
6 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Subversion
1 7 (21.88%) TeamCity
2 6 (18.75%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) JIRA
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
5 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.13%) Snyk
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Administrator
1 7 (21.88%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (18.75%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Security Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) SOC Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Audit Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Incident Responder
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) SIEM Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) LDAP
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Clustering
2 5 (15.63%) Replication
3 4 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.13%) MISP
6 1 (3.13%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
1 7 (21.88%) Solaris
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) SIEM
2 14 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 10 (31.25%) Incident Response
5 9 (28.13%) DevOps
6 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.00%) High Availability
7 7 (21.88%) API Integration
7 7 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (21.88%) Kernel Tuning
7 7 (21.88%) Security Operations
7 7 (21.88%) Threat Intelligence
8 6 (18.75%) Analytics
8 6 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 6 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 6 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (15.63%) Security Auditing
9 5 (15.63%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (15.63%) Threat Detection
9 5 (15.63%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) Bash
2 9 (28.13%) Perl
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) CISSP
3 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) CISM
5 3 (9.38%) CEH
5 3 (9.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (9.38%) Degree
5 3 (9.38%) GCIA
5 3 (9.38%) GIAC
6 2 (6.25%) CISA
6 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.25%) GCIH
6 2 (6.25%) SANS
7 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.13%) GCED
7 1 (3.13%) GCFA
7 1 (3.13%) ISACA
7 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) GDPR
2 5 (15.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (12.50%) NIST
4 1 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) NFS
2 3 (9.38%) Veritas File System
2 3 (9.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Ansible
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (18.75%) Tivoli
4 4 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (12.50%) logstash
4 4 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (9.38%) FortiGate
5 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 2 (6.25%) Control-M
6 2 (6.25%) Netcool
7 1 (3.13%) Kibana
7 1 (3.13%) Nessus
7 1 (3.13%) OpenVAS
7 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (84.38%) Splunk
2 9 (28.13%) IBM
2 9 (28.13%) Qualys
3 8 (25.00%) CyberArk
4 7 (21.88%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
4 7 (21.88%) SaltStack
4 7 (21.88%) VMware
5 5 (15.63%) Cisco
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 5 (15.63%) Palo Alto
5 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (12.50%) EMC
7 3 (9.38%) Exabeam
8 2 (6.25%) BMC
8 2 (6.25%) Carbon Black
8 2 (6.25%) LogRhythm
8 2 (6.25%) Oracle
8 2 (6.25%) Rapid7
8 2 (6.25%) Trend Micro
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