Blue Coat Contracts

Blue Coat
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Coat over the 6 months to 27 April 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 Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 621 790
Rank change year-on-year +54 +169 -180
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 31 98 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.16% 0.066%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.38% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 61 40
10th Percentile £390 £456 £375
25th Percentile £431 £506 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +13.16% +10.47%
75th Percentile £533 £650 £575
90th Percentile £586 - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £48.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £48.75 -

All Vendors
UK

Blue Coat 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 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in the UK

Blue Coat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in the UK

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Coat in the UK

Blue Coat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Blue Coat in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +79 29 £460 -16.36% 9
UK excluding London +63 22 £460 -8.00% 9
South East +40 18 £460 -16.36% 2
London +50 9 £450 -23.40%
Work from Home +84 7 £450 -21.74% 3
Scotland +31 2 - -
North of England +28 1 - -
West Midlands +25 1 - -
Midlands +15 1 - -
North West +11 1 - -
East of England - 1 £450 - 8

Blue Coat
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 (3.23%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) WhatsApp
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 22 (70.97%) Firewall
2 17 (54.84%) VPN
3 14 (45.16%) DMZ
4 12 (38.71%) LAN
5 11 (35.48%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (35.48%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (32.26%) Wireless
7 8 (25.81%) Network Security
8 7 (22.58%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (22.58%) WAN
9 4 (12.90%) ADSL
9 4 (12.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (12.90%) PSTN
9 4 (12.90%) WLAN
10 2 (6.45%) DNS
10 2 (6.45%) HTTP
10 2 (6.45%) Internet
11 1 (3.23%) BGP
11 1 (3.23%) OSPF
11 1 (3.23%) Skype
General
1 11 (35.48%) Banking
2 10 (32.26%) Investment Banking
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) Network Engineer
2 12 (38.71%) Cisco Engineer
2 12 (38.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 10 (32.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 10 (32.26%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Architectural Patterns
1 10 (32.26%) Change Control
1 10 (32.26%) Design Patterns
1 10 (32.26%) High Availability
1 10 (32.26%) ITSM
2 6 (19.35%) Incident Management
2 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (19.35%) Service Management
3 4 (12.90%) DevSecOps
3 4 (12.90%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (6.45%) Agile
4 2 (6.45%) Change Management
4 2 (6.45%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.23%) Network Design
5 1 (3.23%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) CCNP
1 9 (29.03%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (19.35%) CCSA
2 6 (19.35%) JNCIA
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) CheckPoint
2 24 (77.42%) Cisco
3 17 (54.84%) Juniper
4 15 (48.39%) Fortinet
5 12 (38.71%) Palo Alto
6 7 (22.58%) F5
7 5 (16.13%) Infoblox
8 4 (12.90%) Aruba
8 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
9 3 (9.68%) McAfee
10 2 (6.45%) Symantec
10 2 (6.45%) Zscaler
11 1 (3.23%) Arista
11 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds
11 1 (3.23%) VMware