Qualys Contracts

Qualys
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Qualys products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Qualys over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Qualys, Inc.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 580 721
Rank change year-on-year +99 +141 -61
Contract jobs citing Qualys 94 102 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.42% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 86 80
10th Percentile £378 £409 £360
25th Percentile £425 £488 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £585
90th Percentile £750 £785 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £478
% change year-on-year - -5.76% +8.82%

All Vendors
UK

Qualys is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

Qualys
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Qualys as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Qualys over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Qualys.

Hourly rate trend for Qualys in the UK

Qualys
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Qualys 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 +84 89 £450 -18.18% 25
Work from Home +117 61 £450 -20.00% 37
London +81 52 £463 -15.91% 14
UK excluding London +46 37 £450 - 12
South East +32 25 £450 -5.26% 4
North of England +24 4 £538 +19.44% 4
Yorkshire +19 3 £450 - 2
Scotland +37 2 £775 - 1
Midlands +14 2 £588 +46.88% 1
West Midlands +5 2 £588 +46.88% 1
East of England +4 2 £625 +51.52% 2
North West +21 1 £750 - 2
Wales +14 1 £450 -
South West +5 1 £825 +57.14%

Qualys
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 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.91%) Azure
2 21 (22.34%) AWS
3 9 (9.57%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.45%) GCP
5 6 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.32%) IaaS
6 5 (5.32%) Nutanix
6 5 (5.32%) PaaS
6 5 (5.32%) Rubrik
6 5 (5.32%) SaaS
7 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.60%) Firewall
2 18 (19.15%) DNS
3 13 (13.83%) TCP/IP
4 11 (11.70%) VLAN
5 7 (7.45%) DHCP
6 6 (6.38%) Internet
6 6 (6.38%) Wireless
7 5 (5.32%) Kerberos
7 5 (5.32%) NAS
7 5 (5.32%) SAN
8 3 (3.19%) Network Security
9 1 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.19%) Power BI
3 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.38%) Git
2 6 (6.38%) JIRA
3 5 (5.32%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.19%) Burp Suite
General
1 44 (46.81%) Finance
2 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Banking
5 5 (5.32%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Advertising
9 1 (1.06%) Front Office
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (23.40%) Security Engineer
2 14 (14.89%) Analyst
3 13 (13.83%) Vulnerability Specialist
4 11 (11.70%) Security Specialist
5 8 (8.51%) IT Security Specialist
5 8 (8.51%) Security Operations Specialist
6 7 (7.45%) SOC Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Unix Specialist
7 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 5 (5.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Linux Specialist
8 5 (5.32%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) SCCM Specialist
9 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 3 (3.19%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) Kafka
1 5 (5.32%) LDAP
2 2 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (1.06%) EDI
3 1 (1.06%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (30.85%) Management Information System
2 12 (12.77%) Security Posture
3 8 (8.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.32%) Clustering
4 5 (5.32%) Replication
4 5 (5.32%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (4.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (32.98%) Windows
2 26 (27.66%) Linux
3 18 (19.15%) Windows Server
4 15 (15.96%) Unix
5 12 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (8.51%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.32%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (5.32%) Solaris
7 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.26%) zOS
9 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
10 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.06%) CentOS
11 1 (1.06%) Mac OS X
11 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (74.47%) Vulnerability Management
2 27 (28.72%) Incident Response
2 27 (28.72%) SIEM
3 25 (26.60%) Data Security
4 23 (24.47%) Security Operations
5 18 (19.15%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 16 (17.02%) Data Loss Prevention
6 16 (17.02%) Security Patching
7 14 (14.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 13 (13.83%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (13.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (13.83%) ITIL
9 12 (12.77%) Mobile Device Management
10 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.64%) Information Security
11 10 (10.64%) Risk Management
12 9 (9.57%) Computer Science
12 9 (9.57%) Penetration Testing
13 8 (8.51%) Change Control
13 8 (8.51%) DDoS Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.96%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.64%) Python
3 6 (6.38%) Bash
4 2 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (1.06%) C++
5 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Degree
2 8 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.38%) CISSP
4 4 (4.26%) CEH
5 2 (2.13%) CISM
5 2 (2.13%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.13%) CSSLP
5 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (9.57%) NIST
3 8 (8.51%) GDPR
4 7 (7.45%) SLA
5 5 (5.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (5.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (5.32%) PCI DSS
5 5 (5.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (3.19%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (2.13%) COBIT
8 2 (2.13%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.13%) QA
9 1 (1.06%) GRC
9 1 (1.06%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 24 (25.53%) Active Directory
2 16 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.38%) vSphere
4 5 (5.32%) Docker
4 5 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (20.21%) SCCM
2 13 (13.83%) Ansible
3 12 (12.77%) Nessus
4 7 (7.45%) WSUS
5 6 (6.38%) Terraform
6 5 (5.32%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.32%) Netcool
6 5 (5.32%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.32%) Tivoli
6 5 (5.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Puppet
8 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.13%) Salt
10 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.06%) Nagios
10 1 (1.06%) OpenVAS
10 1 (1.06%) QRadar
10 1 (1.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (53.19%) Microsoft
2 28 (29.79%) VMware
3 16 (17.02%) Forcepoint
3 16 (17.02%) LogRhythm
3 16 (17.02%) Varonis
4 12 (12.77%) Splunk
5 11 (11.70%) Veracode
6 8 (8.51%) CA
6 8 (8.51%) Red Hat
7 7 (7.45%) Rapid7
8 6 (6.38%) Cisco
8 6 (6.38%) Dell
9 5 (5.32%) CyberArk
9 5 (5.32%) EMC
9 5 (5.32%) HP
9 5 (5.32%) IBM
9 5 (5.32%) Isilon
9 5 (5.32%) Oracle
9 5 (5.32%) Serena
9 5 (5.32%) ServiceNow