Qualys Contracts with Work from Home Options

Qualys
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 402 577
Rank change year-on-year +114 +175 -112
Contract jobs citing Qualys 61 57 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 0.54% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 53 34
10th Percentile £419 £415 £450
25th Percentile £425 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £475 £684 £592
90th Percentile £540 £795 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,190 10,605 17,518
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.27% 43.75% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,936 7,138 12,016
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £630
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 251 249
10th Percentile £13.31 £16.61 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +22.09% +65.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £57.38
90th Percentile £71.75 £80.00 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

Qualys
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Qualys as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Qualys trend for jobs with a WFH option

Qualys
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Qualys.

Qualys daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Qualys
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Qualys over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Qualys daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Qualys
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (8.20%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 13 (21.31%) AWS
3 8 (13.11%) Entra ID
3 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.20%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (8.20%) GCP
4 5 (8.20%) IaaS
4 5 (8.20%) Nutanix
4 5 (8.20%) PaaS
4 5 (8.20%) Rubrik
4 5 (8.20%) SaaS
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.28%) Serverless
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (29.51%) Firewall
2 15 (24.59%) DNS
3 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
4 7 (11.48%) DHCP
4 7 (11.48%) VLAN
5 5 (8.20%) Kerberos
5 5 (8.20%) NAS
5 5 (8.20%) SAN
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
6 2 (3.28%) Wireless
7 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 5 (8.20%) Git
3 5 (8.20%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (49.18%) Finance
2 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing
2 5 (8.20%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.28%) Multimedia
5 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Front Office
6 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Security Engineer
1 13 (21.31%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 10 (16.39%) Security Specialist
3 9 (14.75%) Analyst
4 8 (13.11%) IT Security Specialist
4 8 (13.11%) Security Operations Specialist
5 7 (11.48%) Unix Specialist
6 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (9.84%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (8.20%) Linux Specialist
8 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) SCCM Specialist
9 2 (3.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (3.28%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Consultant
9 2 (3.28%) Lead
9 2 (3.28%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) LDAP
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (44.26%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.75%) Security Posture
3 8 (13.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (8.20%) Clustering
4 5 (8.20%) Replication
5 3 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.79%) Windows
2 19 (31.15%) Linux
3 18 (29.51%) Windows Server
4 13 (21.31%) Unix
5 10 (16.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (13.11%) Windows 10
7 5 (8.20%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (8.20%) Solaris
8 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
9 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (1.64%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (81.97%) Vulnerability Management
2 21 (34.43%) Data Security
3 20 (32.79%) SIEM
4 19 (31.15%) Incident Response
5 18 (29.51%) Security Operations
6 16 (26.23%) Data Loss Prevention
7 14 (22.95%) Security Patching
8 13 (21.31%) ITIL
8 13 (21.31%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 11 (18.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (13.11%) DDoS Mitigation
10 8 (13.11%) Mobile Device Management
11 7 (11.48%) Computer Science
11 7 (11.48%) DevOps
11 7 (11.48%) Security Hardening
12 6 (9.84%) Agile
12 6 (9.84%) Configuration Management
12 6 (9.84%) ITSM
12 6 (9.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.11%) Python
3 5 (8.20%) Bash
4 1 (1.64%) C++
4 1 (1.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.20%) CISSP
4 3 (4.92%) CEH
5 2 (3.28%) CISM
5 2 (3.28%) CREST Certified
5 2 (3.28%) CSSLP
5 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) SLA
2 5 (8.20%) GDPR
2 5 (8.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.28%) COBIT
3 2 (3.28%) ISO 22301
3 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
3 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 20 (32.79%) Active Directory
2 14 (22.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.20%) Docker
4 4 (6.56%) vSphere
5 3 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) SCCM
2 13 (21.31%) Ansible
3 5 (8.20%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.20%) Nessus
3 5 (8.20%) Netcool
3 5 (8.20%) Progress Chef
3 5 (8.20%) Terraform
3 5 (8.20%) Tivoli
3 5 (8.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (6.56%) Puppet
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.92%) WSUS
6 2 (3.28%) Salt
7 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (60.66%) Microsoft
2 26 (42.62%) VMware
3 16 (26.23%) Forcepoint
3 16 (26.23%) LogRhythm
3 16 (26.23%) Varonis
4 8 (13.11%) CA
5 6 (9.84%) Red Hat
6 5 (8.20%) Cisco
6 5 (8.20%) CyberArk
6 5 (8.20%) Dell
6 5 (8.20%) EMC
6 5 (8.20%) HP
6 5 (8.20%) IBM
6 5 (8.20%) Isilon
6 5 (8.20%) Oracle
6 5 (8.20%) Serena
6 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
6 5 (8.20%) Splunk
7 4 (6.56%) Rapid7
8 3 (4.92%) Veracode