Blue Coat Contract Job Trends in Chester

Blue Coat
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 18 September 2025, 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.20% 4.29% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.04% 7.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £497 -
25th Percentile £413 £539 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £619 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.31% - -
75th Percentile £438 £689 -
90th Percentile - £726 -
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £750 £588
% change year-on-year -43.33% +27.66% +30.56%

All Vendors
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 49 39 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 59.04% 55.71% 60.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 23
10th Percentile £190 £316 £380
25th Percentile £325 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +0.42% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £584
90th Percentile £688 £687 £588
Cheshire median daily rate £452 £528 £500
% change year-on-year -14.41% +5.50% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £12.68 £17.23
25th Percentile £12.51 £14.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £12.76 £17.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.94% -51.43% +60.70%
75th Percentile £13.01 £22.25 -
90th Percentile - £29.90 £37.80
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £22.53
% change year-on-year -5.88% -24.55% +85.13%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in Chester

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5