Blue Coat Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Blue Coat
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Blue Coat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Coat over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 95 102
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 2 1 17
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.10% 0.083% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.14% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £415 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -17.00% -
75th Percentile - £423 £525
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £380 £415 £460
% change year-on-year -8.43% -9.78% -16.36%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Blue Coat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 976 699 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 50.15% 57.86% 50.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 423 499
10th Percentile £310 £350 £265
25th Percentile £424 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.07%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £735
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 27 45
10th Percentile £24.78 £14.57 £14.50
25th Percentile £39.82 £14.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £87.16 £20.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +320.05% -64.41% -0.77%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £56.50 £67.65
South East median hourly rate £57.00 £19.00 £55.08
% change year-on-year +200.00% -65.50% +22.39%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blue Coat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Blue Coat job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Blue Coat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Blue Coat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. 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
Reading - 2 £380 - 1
Blue Coat
South East

Blue Coat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox