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 20 November 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
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 6.14% 7.46% -
As % of the Vendors category 10.00% 10.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £483 -
25th Percentile £413 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £525 £681 -
90th Percentile - £723 -
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £663 £588
% change year-on-year -24.53% +12.77% +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 70 47 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 61.40% 70.15% 66.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 5
10th Percentile £178 £453 £325
25th Percentile £425 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% +4.95% +50.00%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £580
90th Percentile £688 £678 £630
Cheshire median daily rate £454 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.57% - +11.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £15.76 £14.10 £17.15
25th Percentile £20.69 £16.00 £17.44
Median hourly rate £33.25 £20.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.25% -41.18% +111.57%
75th Percentile £68.69 £24.10 £35.56
90th Percentile £82.13 £28.51 £39.73
Cheshire median hourly rate £19.00 £22.09 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% -35.03% +172.44%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Blue Coat job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Chester 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 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
1 3 (42.86%) SSL
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) BIG-IP
2 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Junior
2 2 (28.57%) Junior Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Web Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (28.57%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) F5
2 6 (85.71%) McAfee
2 6 (85.71%) VMware