Blue Coat Contracts with Work from Home Options

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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 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 9 May 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
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 416 578
Rank change year-on-year +82 +162 -135
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 7 52 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.21% 0.084%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.48% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 37 26
10th Percentile - £463 £369
25th Percentile £425 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% +10.43%
75th Percentile £475 £650 -
90th Percentile - - £575
UK median daily rate £460 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -14.42% +19.44% +5.88%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 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 6,422 10,810 17,157
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.60% 43.09% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,015 7,268 11,680
10th Percentile £325 £325 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 254 252
10th Percentile £13.65 £17.50 £13.94
25th Percentile £16.68 £30.81 £19.19
Median hourly rate £30.56 £54.00 £36.89
Median % change year-on-year -43.41% +46.39% +22.96%
75th Percentile £58.13 £68.44 £52.91
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

Blue Coat
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Blue Coat trend for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Coat
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 Blue Coat.

Blue Coat daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
1 5 (71.43%) Wireless
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) ADSL
4 2 (28.57%) DMZ
4 2 (28.57%) PSTN
4 2 (28.57%) WLAN
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (14.29%) HTTP
5 1 (14.29%) Internet
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) CCSA
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) JNCIA
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
2 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) Juniper
4 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
5 2 (28.57%) Aruba
5 2 (28.57%) Infoblox
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (14.29%) McAfee
6 1 (14.29%) Symantec
6 1 (14.29%) Zscaler
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