Blue Coat Contract Job Trends in England

Blue Coat
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 February 2026, 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 464 521
Rank change year-on-year -57 +57 +74
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 54 24 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.093% 0.079%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 16
10th Percentile £375 £412 £425
25th Percentile £393 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +1.56% -12.73%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £553
90th Percentile £530 £750 £583
UK median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -9.09%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,932 11,984 16,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.84% 46.66% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,408 7,437 10,457
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 828 367 889
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -21.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +11.81% -25.27%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Blue Coat job vacancy trend in England

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Blue Coat in England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Blue Coat in England

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Coat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Blue Coat

Blue Coat
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West -11 37 £475 -17.39%
North of England -39 37 £475 -20.83%
Midlands -33 23 £378 - 2
West Midlands - 23 £378 - 2
London -31 9 £500 -16.67%
South East -35 2 £450 -22.75%
East of England -25 1 £400 - 1
Blue Coat
UK

Blue Coat
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (5.56%) Azure
1 3 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (5.56%) Cloudflare
1 3 (5.56%) GCP
1 3 (5.56%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (79.63%) DNS
2 42 (77.78%) SSL
3 34 (62.96%) TCP/IP
4 32 (59.26%) BIG-IP
4 32 (59.26%) HTTP
5 30 (55.56%) Wireshark
6 20 (37.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 20 (37.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (24.07%) Firewall
8 11 (20.37%) Network Security
9 8 (14.81%) WAN
10 7 (12.96%) VPN
11 6 (11.11%) Cisco IPT
11 6 (11.11%) DMVPN
11 6 (11.11%) DMZ
11 6 (11.11%) IPsec
11 6 (11.11%) Wireless
12 2 (3.70%) LAN
13 1 (1.85%) DHCP
13 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 30 (55.56%) Fiddler
General
1 19 (35.19%) Banking
1 19 (35.19%) Investment Banking
2 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (87.04%) Network Engineer
2 30 (55.56%) Web Engineer
3 19 (35.19%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 17 (31.48%) IP Network Engineer
5 12 (22.22%) Junior
5 12 (22.22%) Junior Network Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Security Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Security Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Python Engineer
10 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.85%) CSS
2 1 (1.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) Load Balancing
2 29 (53.70%) Data Loss Prevention
3 28 (51.85%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 8 (14.81%) Change Management
6 6 (11.11%) Inventory Management
7 5 (9.26%) Migration
8 3 (5.56%) Hyperautomation
8 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (5.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (5.56%) Network Architecture
8 3 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (5.56%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (5.56%) Security Operations
8 3 (5.56%) SIEM
8 3 (5.56%) SOAR
8 3 (5.56%) Zero Trust
9 2 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.70%) Kalman Filter
9 2 (3.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) Python
2 4 (7.41%) Bash
3 3 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) CCNP
2 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.85%) CCIE
3 1 (1.85%) CCNA
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (31.48%) Firmware
3 11 (20.37%) VMware NSX
4 4 (7.41%) ProxySG
5 3 (5.56%) Docker
5 3 (5.56%) Snort
5 3 (5.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Nessus
2 3 (5.56%) Nexpose
2 3 (5.56%) Suricata
Vendors
1 47 (87.04%) F5
2 40 (74.07%) McAfee
3 35 (64.81%) VMware
4 20 (37.04%) NetApp
5 10 (18.52%) Cisco
6 6 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 6 (11.11%) Juniper
7 4 (7.41%) Zscaler
8 3 (5.56%) Carbon Black
8 3 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (5.56%) FireEye
8 3 (5.56%) Google
8 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
8 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.56%) Qualys
8 3 (5.56%) Splunk
8 3 (5.56%) Symantec
9 2 (3.70%) Radware