Blue Coat Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Blue Coat Engineer
UK > England

The median Blue Coat Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 - 545
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Blue Coat Engineer 17 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.050% - 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK median daily rate £400 - £500

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 31,393 24,237 35,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 93.02% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,928 15,142 23,779
10th Percentile £300 £300 £273
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 710 2,124
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.99 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.30 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -2.23%

Blue Coat Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Blue Coat Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Blue Coat Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Blue Coat Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in England

Blue Coat Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Blue Coat Engineer job vacancies in England

Blue Coat Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Midlands - 15 - - 1
North West - 15 - -
West Midlands - 15 - - 1
North of England - 15 - -
London - 1 £400 -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Blue Coat Engineer
UK

Blue Coat Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, Blue Coat Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Blue Coat Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 17 (100.00%) SSL
2 15 (88.24%) BIG-IP
2 15 (88.24%) Data Loss Prevention
2 15 (88.24%) DNS
2 15 (88.24%) F5
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 15 (88.24%) Fiddler
2 15 (88.24%) Firmware
2 15 (88.24%) HTTP
2 15 (88.24%) Load Balancing
2 15 (88.24%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 15 (88.24%) McAfee
2 15 (88.24%) NetApp
2 15 (88.24%) TCP/IP
2 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (88.24%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) ProxySG
3 2 (11.76%) User Experience
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) Web Filtering
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible

Blue Coat Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 17 (100.00%) SSL
2 15 (88.24%) BIG-IP
2 15 (88.24%) DNS
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 15 (88.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 15 (88.24%) HTTP
2 15 (88.24%) TCP/IP
2 15 (88.24%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
4 1 (5.88%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Fiddler
General
1 15 (88.24%) Banking
1 15 (88.24%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 15 (88.24%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Data Loss Prevention
1 15 (88.24%) Load Balancing
1 15 (88.24%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) User Experience
2 2 (11.76%) Web Filtering
3 1 (5.88%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Firmware
1 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 15 (88.24%) F5
2 15 (88.24%) McAfee
2 15 (88.24%) NetApp
2 15 (88.24%) VMware