QRadar Contracts

IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for QRadar skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QRadar over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 649 744
Rank change year-on-year +92 +95 -49
Contract jobs citing QRadar 18 33 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.059% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.37% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 68
10th Percentile £407 £400 £343
25th Percentile £423 £525 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £608 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% +5.65% +21.05%
75th Percentile £698 £675 £688
90th Percentile £925 £678 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £500
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

QRadar is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QRadar in the UK

QRadar
Top 7 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 1 June 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 +78 16 £600 -0.62% 8
London +95 12 £613 -3.92% 6
Work from Home +100 7 £600 - 7
UK excluding London +30 4 £600 - 4
South East +10 2 £396 -34.00% 1
Scotland +37 1 £650 +18.18% 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security
3 3 (16.67%) FTP
3 3 (16.67%) HTTP
3 3 (16.67%) ICMP
3 3 (16.67%) POP3
3 3 (16.67%) SMTP
3 3 (16.67%) SSH
3 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) DSL
4 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) ArcSight Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Monitoring Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Security Monitoring Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) SIEM Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) SIEM
2 8 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (38.89%) Security Monitoring
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Threat Detection
5 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
5 5 (27.78%) Information Security
5 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
6 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (22.22%) Log Aggregation
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Information Assurance
7 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
7 3 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 2 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
8 2 (11.11%) SABSA
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) CISM
2 4 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) GCIA
3 3 (16.67%) GCIH
3 3 (16.67%) GIAC
3 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) CCNA
4 2 (11.11%) CCSP
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) ISSEP
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kibana
1 4 (22.22%) logstash
1 4 (22.22%) Nessus
2 3 (16.67%) CSIRT
3 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.56%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) ArcSight
4 3 (16.67%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (11.11%) IBM
5 2 (11.11%) LogRhythm
6 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
6 1 (5.56%) McAfee
6 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
6 1 (5.56%) Qualys
6 1 (5.56%) Tanium
6 1 (5.56%) Thales