Blue Team Contracts in Berkshire

Blue Teaming
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 113 107
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.089% 0.052% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.059% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% - -
South East median daily rate £750 £575 -
% change year-on-year +30.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Blue Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,050 1,683 1,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.17% 87.38% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 842 987
10th Percentile £325 £243 £340
25th Percentile £413 £387 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 107 52
10th Percentile £22.76 £17.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.00 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -1.44% +189.54%
75th Percentile £78.60 £71.75 £74.84
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +138.64%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in Berkshire

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Blue Team in Berkshire

Blue Team
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 Team within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2025. 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
Slough - 1 £750 - 1
Blue Team
South East

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCED
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk