Blue Team Contracts in the South West

Blue Teaming
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Blue Team skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Team over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 166 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.095% 0.085% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.094% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
England median daily rate £550 £606 £500
% change year-on-year -9.17% +21.10% -1.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Blue Team is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.26% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £216 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the South West

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Blue Team in the South West

Blue Team
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Team within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Wiltshire - 3 £525 - 1
Blue Team
England

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Escalation Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (33.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk