Blue Team Contracts in the City of London

Blue Teaming
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Team 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £540
25th Percentile £613 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
75th Percentile £638 - £581
90th Percentile - - £600
Central London median daily rate £625 - £550

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,630 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.25% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £574 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.32% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Blue Team
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Team in the City of London

Blue Team
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Team in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Blue Team in the City of London

Blue Team
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes