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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 862 927
Rank change year-on-year +186 +65 +281
Permanent jobs citing QRadar 41 42 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.039% 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.72% 0.42% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28 38 16
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £36,950
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,563 £40,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £48,125
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +29.87% -42.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 -
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 5,710 9,919 13,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 9.19% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,115 6,983 8,670
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,486 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +6.82% -7.60% +2.63%

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 8 June 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 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +154 40 £65,000 +4.00% 28
UK excluding London +205 32 £62,000 +3.33% 21
South East +112 12 £70,000 - 12
East of England +40 11 £62,000 +3.33% 9
London +92 7 £90,000 +44.00% 12
North of England - 4 £50,000 -
Midlands - 3 £72,500 -
Work from Home +118 2 £65,000 +18.18% 8
West Midlands - 2 - -
North West - 2 £50,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £72,500 -
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
South West - 1 £70,000 - 1

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 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (12.20%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.20%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.44%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 24 (58.54%) Firewall
2 16 (39.02%) TCP/IP
3 15 (36.59%) VPN
4 12 (29.27%) Network Security
5 11 (26.83%) Internet
6 10 (24.39%) FTP
6 10 (24.39%) HTTP
6 10 (24.39%) LAN
6 10 (24.39%) SMTP
6 10 (24.39%) WAN
7 5 (12.20%) Kerberos
8 3 (7.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.44%) DHCP
9 1 (2.44%) DNS
9 1 (2.44%) NAS
9 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.44%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Tableau
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Aviation
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Aerospace
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Law
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Automotive
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Lead
2 9 (21.95%) SOC Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Analyst
3 7 (17.07%) Incident Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Incident Responder
4 6 (14.63%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Identity Management Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Security Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) SOC Manager
8 2 (4.88%) Security Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) Consultant
9 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) IT Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) Operations Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Analyst
9 1 (2.44%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) LDAP
2 5 (12.20%) OAuth
2 5 (12.20%) OpenID
2 5 (12.20%) SailPoint
2 5 (12.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (24.39%) Client/Server
3 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
4 7 (17.07%) Onboarding
4 7 (17.07%) PKI
5 6 (14.63%) Robotics
6 5 (12.20%) Security Posture
7 3 (7.32%) MISP
8 2 (4.88%) CSOC
8 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
9 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (2.44%) Cyberattack
9 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Windows
2 6 (14.63%) Android
2 6 (14.63%) Apple iOS
2 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) SIEM
2 25 (60.98%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (43.90%) Incident Response
3 18 (43.90%) Security Operations
4 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (29.27%) Cloud Security
6 10 (24.39%) Malware Analysis
6 10 (24.39%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 10 (24.39%) Reverse Engineering
6 10 (24.39%) Use Case
7 8 (19.51%) Information Security
7 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
7 8 (19.51%) Process Improvement
7 8 (19.51%) Threat Detection
8 7 (17.07%) Blue Team
8 7 (17.07%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (17.07%) People Management
9 6 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
9 6 (14.63%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) PowerShell
2 12 (29.27%) Python
3 11 (26.83%) Bash
3 11 (26.83%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (14.63%) C++
4 6 (14.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (63.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (53.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (43.90%) Degree
4 10 (24.39%) DV Cleared
5 9 (21.95%) CISM
5 9 (21.95%) CISSP
6 7 (17.07%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (9.76%) CEH
8 4 (9.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (9.76%) OSCP
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.44%) CCNA
9 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (2.44%) CREST Certified
9 1 (2.44%) GCIA
9 1 (2.44%) GCIH
9 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (17.07%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (17.07%) SLA
3 6 (14.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (12.20%) NIST
5 4 (9.76%) GDPR
5 4 (9.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) ArcSight ESM
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 5 (12.20%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (2.44%) Nessus
3 1 (2.44%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 31 (75.61%) Microsoft
1 31 (75.61%) Splunk
2 7 (17.07%) AlienVault
2 7 (17.07%) McAfee
3 6 (14.63%) ArcSight
3 6 (14.63%) LogLogic
3 6 (14.63%) SolarWinds
4 5 (12.20%) Cisco
5 4 (9.76%) Palo Alto
6 3 (7.32%) Google
7 2 (4.88%) IBM
8 1 (2.44%) Darktrace
8 1 (2.44%) LogRhythm
8 1 (2.44%) Oracle
8 1 (2.44%) Qualys
8 1 (2.44%) VMware
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